At the heart of U.S. foreign involvement lies pri-
vate corporate expansion…. U.S. corporate
structure is increasingly worldwide in scope and
this, more than any other single factor, accounts for
U.S. counter-revolutionary involvement throughout
the world. For U.S. corporate and financial interests
and the governments they control, revolution and
independent national development are equated
with exclusion of U.S. interests from the market-
place. Such exclusion is, for them, a threat to their
very survival.
-Vol 2, No. 2, April 1968
o-called aid, with all its well known conditions,
Means markets and greater development for the
developed countries, but has not in fact managed to
compensate for the money that leaves Latin
America in payment oT tne
external debt and as a result of
the profits generated by direct
private investment. In one
word, Latin America gives more
than it receives.
-Gabriel Valdes, Foreign Minister of
Chile, Vol. 3, No. 8, December 1969
The Alliance for Progress,
which attempted through accelerated industrial-
ization to restructure and strengthen the local bour-
geoisie into a buttress for U.S. operations, failed
miserably. Instead, military dictatorships, which are
a good indication of the weakness and disunity
within the bourgeois ranks, have become the most
accepted and effective form of government.
-Vol. 5, No. 6, October 1971
The increased consciousness
of U.S. objectives, pro-
duced to a great extent by the success of the
Cuban Revolution, has forced the imperialists to
employ even more covert methods of exploitation….
By working through the IMF and the World Bank, by
shrouding its purpose in the language of interna-
tional “developmentalism,” the United States can
increase its demand on Third World countries with-
out incurring proportionate anti-U.S. sentiment.
-Vol. 7, No. 7, September 1973
The military coup against the Unidad Popular gov-
ernment was the end product of a long and
tenacious campaign by the Chilean right, aided by
U.S. government and corporate leaders, aimed at
reversing the tide of history in Chile…. U.S. involve-
ment in the coup…reached beyond the “invisible”
economic blockade and included financial and
material aid to the civilian and military forces which
overthrew Allende. The U.S. anti-Allende actions
complemented the Chilean right-wing offensive,
and neither can be understood in isolation.
-Vol. 7, No. 8, October 1973
The Carter administration’s efforts to halt the
most flagrant violations of human rights in the
Southern Cone, without challenging the underlying
social system which has brought about these viola-
tions, is like a doctor treating the more sensational
symptoms without attacking the disease. The prob-
lem is imperialism itself. U.S. efforts to restrain
excessive violations…will always be checked by the
need to preserve and defend the existing global sys-
tem of economic and property relations.
-Vol. 12, No. 2, March/April 1979
A n empire is sustained, in part, by the image of its
invincibility. If it suffers defeats in its own back-
yard, questions are raised about its strength through-
out the world, both among its enemies and its allies.
Herein lies the real U.S. stake in El Salvador.
-Vol. 14, No. 1, January/February 1980
“T he battle [against the
Sandinista government] is not
going on at the ideological and
political levels alone, and it is not
being fought out primarily
among Nicaraguans with merely
aid and comfort from the
Reagan administration. Under-
pinning all these attempts to break the fragile
national unity in Nicaragua is the first and most basic
level of the U.S. assault: economic warfare. The
hoped-for sequence of events is that the disruption
of economic activities will lead to social unrest,
which in turn will induce political turmoil.
-Vol. 16, No. 1, January/February 1982
Critical examination of U.S. media coverage of
events in Grenada from the advent of [Maurice
Bishop’s] New Jewel government in 1979 to the U.S.
invasion [in 1983) shows that while the Reagan
administration prepared the Grenadian dish for
public consumption, the nation’s print and elec-
tronic media set the table…. Administration officials
lectured the public on, and the press duly reported,
not a U.S. invasion against Grenada, but a U.S. con-
frontation with Cuba and the Soviet Union.
Grenada had disappeared. How much easier to win
support for a battle against the Soviet Union-pick-
ing someone “our own size”-than little Grenada.
-Vol. 18, No. 1, January/February 1984
ot so long ago, most everyone on the left
agreed that U.S. military intervention in the
internal affairs of another country should a priori be
opposed. The case of Haiti has shattered that con-
sensus…. [Some] oppose intervention in Haiti in any
form, [while others] think only the United States has
the clout-not to mention the moral responsibility
-to restore Aristide to power.
-Vol. 27, No. 4, JanuarylFebruary, 1994
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