On the Record
Contributions for On the Record should be sent to Features, NACLA, 151 W. 19th St., 9th floor, New York, NY 10011. Heavy Weight Diplomacy Alert Ollie Pres. Arias will attend Reagan's dinner in...
...Memo from Rafael Quintero to Richard Secord May 10, 1986 White Boys, Green Cards "When I start seeing hordes of white boys crossing the river, I'll start asking more white boys about their citizenship...
...moves militarily to protect the people of Haiti from their murderers, it may not be all that surgical...
...American troops will have to find and root out gangs of street killers and torturers, many of whom have the advantage of American training themselves...
...Arias will attend Reagan's dinner in New York Sept...
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...The result this winter could be 50300% inflations, sackings, strikes and even rumbles of revolution in Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Hungary...
...It is Haitians, not Americans, who are murdering other Haitians and trying to shove the country back into the perpetual nightmare of terror and despotism...
...But the involvement of the United States in the Haitian horror is so deep and so long that this country has a responsibility to try to stanch the country's blood and quiet its screams...
...The ethical and political question about Haiti is not whether to intervene but when and how...
...Lawrence E. Harrison The Washington Post June 29, 1986 Another "Rescue...
...If the U.S...
...It won't be Vietnam but it won't be Grenada either...
...Instead, I believe that Latin underdevelopment is largely a state of mind: the Latin mind...
...Charles Redman State Department spokesperson The New York Times November 5, 1987...
...Tom Crosby Immigration and Naturalization Service Agent The New York Times August 4, 1986 "Those Bad Latin Ways" Unfortunately, [the peoples of Eastern Europe] are heading towards the worst Latin American types of distortingly miscontrolled economy...
...Boy needs to be straightened out by heavy weights...
...A. M. Rosenthal The New York Times December 1, 1987 Actions Speak Louder...
...Once more the United States confronts a basic reality of international life: intervention in the affairs of another country...
...The Economist November 28-December 4, 1987 Mental Obstacles The biggest obstacle to progress in Latin America is not Yankee imperialism but Latin culture...
...After working on Latin American problems for two decades with the Agency for International Development, I have seen how poorly Latin culture treats its citizens, compared to the United States and other Western democracies...
...As we've said in the past, we stand firmly behind the people of Haiti in their efforts to bring democracy to their country and to reject the Duvalier era...
...I have also come to reject what's known as "dependency theory," which blames the United States for the poverty, tyranny and chaos to the south...
Vol. 21 • September 1987 • No. 5
