Cold Quote by Juan Manuel Santos

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru,…

— Stephen Kinzer

The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones:…

— Stephen Kinzer

The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear…

— Augusto Pinochet

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

— Stephen Kinzer

“In the succeeding thirty-two years of U.S. guidance, not only has Guatemala gradually become a terrorist state rarely matched in the scale of systematic…

— Noam Chomsky

“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles did not…

— Malcolm H. Murfett

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

— Carlos Fuentes

“to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of any society…

— William Blum

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never…

— Isabel Allende

“Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

— Alvaro Uribe