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    <body><![CDATA[definitely an interesting book, especially as an overview of US misadventures in LA. but the arguments get pretty weak when he tries to tie in trade and economic policy. it's also very poorly sourced. grandin frequently cites statistics without providing any source at all, and it tends to be the mos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47422041">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like this, you might also want to check out:<br/><br/>Marie-Monique Robin, “Counterinsurgency and Torture: Exporting Torture Tactics from Indochina and Algeria to Latin America.” In: <em>Torture: Does it Make Us Safer? Is it Ever OK? A Human Rights Perspective</em> eds. Kenneth Roth et al. with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72276725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Grandin does a good job underscoring the hemispheric policies of the US in the last century. His thesis ties the current neo-conservative foreign policy in the Mid-East with that of the Reagan administration's approach to Latin America. He also describes how US efforts toward &quot;economic developm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27642151">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little bit of a struggle to read this book because of my lack of political ideological knowledge, but still very interesting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting read.  It's not like any of the history in here is news to me at all, but the frame it's put it is new.<br/><br/>The idea is that the neo-conservative/hyperpower/preemptive foreign policy was first tested in Latin America in the post-Vietnam era, where we more or less always acted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1630709">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am really enjoying this book so far, although I have been reading it for toooo loooong.... and I lost it for like 2 weeks. It's a good resource for US foreign policy; I like Grandin's liberal, critical approach to the subject, but some points could be a little better explained, or seem contradicto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38788037">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was fascinating and disturbing. detailing how much complicity the US has had in the atrocities that have happened in Latin America. this book also delves into how our foreign policy has changed and evolved and how mixed up the religious right is in the government and setting foreign policy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1867320">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is intensely packed with well-referenced information.  I wish it were longer and elaborated but it serves as a great summary of US foreign policy in Latin America foiled to recent foreign policy in the Middle East.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book for history of the U.S. in Latin America... but the final chapter(s) center on critiquing Bush and the US war in Iraq as opposed to contempary imperialism in Latin America.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic stuff on Regan and Central America, and the connection with Iraq war. But he does make it seem like all U.S. presidents do is plot how to screw Latin America.]]></body>
    
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