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"The History of the Intelligence State" -- an essential 40 min lecture on the origin story of The Blob. Thanks to @Hillsdale for a beautiful event. Timestamps in tweet below https://t.co/GTRrgPpLqt

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Al parecer, Estados Unidos, mejor dicho, el secretario de Estado del Presidente Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, y su hermano Allen, el jefe de la CIA, habían elegido a Castillo Armas para dirigir la contrarrevolución por no ser tan aristocrático como Ydígoras Fuentes y porque al que tenía cabeza, ideas y prestigio, Córdova Cerna, se le descubrió en

Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)

In late 1970, Lockheed was near bankruptcy because of the large debt they had built up to fund the L-1011 Tristar commercial aircraft program. They approached the Nixon administration for a $250 million loan guarantee to avoid insolvency. That is about $1.9 billion in today’s dollars. Here was an opportunity to transfer the assets to a private... See more

Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program

Árbenz empezó a preocuparse con otro problema: el Ejército. Aquella propaganda tenía que servir para que los enemigos internos de la revolución comenzaran a tentar al Ejército, a socavar su lealtad con el gobierno, a conspirar para producir un golpe de Estado. ¿Iba a dirigirlo el pobre Cara de Hacha? Imposible. Nadie lo respetaba en las Fuerzas

Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)

For Luis Muñoz Marín, this all hung together. Turning Puerto Rico from an “unsolvable problem” into a viable economy meant doing a lot of things at once: tamping down birthrates, ushering the surplus population off the island, and channeling profits from tariff-free trade into economic development. More food, fewer mouths. It was a Faustian

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

Only weeks after sending his legislative package to Congress and a couple of days after expelling the SIL missionaries, Roldós warned all foreign interests, including but not limited to oil companies, that unless they implemented plans that would help Ecuador's people, they would be forced to leave his country. He delivered a major speech at the

John Perkins • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Muñoz Marín invited Albizu to join him. The two had much in common. They were young, charismatic leaders who spoke English fluently and had attended prestigious mainland universities (Georgetown for Muñoz Marín, Harvard for Albizu). As they talked, they found that their political visions matched. Still, Muñoz Marín noticed a difference in their

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

Congressman Vito Marcantonio

Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

Al terminar el período de Juan José Arévalo, en 1950, Jacobo Árbenz fue apoyado para sucederlo por todos los partidos y agrupaciones sociales que habían sostenido el gobierno de aquél. Su triunfo electoral resultó inequívoco: el sesenta y cinco por ciento de los votos entre los nueve candidatos a la Presidencia fueron para él. Su programa