Symptom and cause were wrapped up into one ugly package. Standing behind the local regimes and perpetuating the injustice were the North Americans and their overwhelming economic power. Ernesto’s antidote in the case of Chile was to “get the uncomfortable North American friend off its back,” but he warned in the same breath of the dangers and difficulties of expropriation. Ernesto didn’t have a cure for all these ills, but he was searching. Perhaps the “red flame dazzling the world” was the answer, but he wasn’t yet sure.
