Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

by Suzy Hansen

Latin America: the United Fruit Company; Coca-Cola and Del Monte working with Latin American death squads; David Rockefeller’s Business Group for Latin America conspiring with the CIA to bring about coups; the School of the Americas, an American military college in Fort Benning, Georgia, which trained seemingly every Latin American dictator in, among other things, torture techniques. There is no place of such thoroughgoing capitalist-imperialist horror as Latin America.

“Polytechnic,” it turned out, was the night that Greek college students rose up and eventually brought down the Greek dictatorship, in 1974.