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He recited “Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre,” a poem by Pablo Neruda.

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

respectively—transforms colonial possession into benign and mutually agreeable exchanges, all the while disguising the material, economic, and political conditions under which colonized islanders labored.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

Árbenz nunca habló tanto como en aquellas discusiones públicas en el Palacio de Gobierno, en abril de 1952. Quienes lo conocían de cerca y sabían de su manera de ser tan reservada, su acostumbrado mutismo, se asombraban de verlo defender con tanto brío su proyecto, explicando que se expropiarían sólo las tierras ociosas de los grandes propietarios

Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)

In 1938 he launched the Partido Popular Democrático, the party he would lead until the end of his career. It campaigned on a slogan of “Bread, Land, and Liberty,” though that last term, liberty, was kept ambiguous. It resonated with the widespread resentment of colonial rule in Puerto Rico, yet it was vague enough to encompass many possibilities. M

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

On further reflection, however, it seemed to me that it was perhaps a conceit to think that modern societies had progressed so far beyond Melanesia, since Big Men—that is, politicians who distribute resources to their relatives and supporters—are ubiquitous in the contemporary world, including the U.S. Congress.

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

Lo que sí había funcionado muy bien era la campaña en las radios y la prensa acusando al gobierno de Árbenz de haber convertido a Guatemala en una cabecera de playa de la Unión Soviética y de planear apoderarse del Canal de Panamá. Pero ésa no era obra del gobierno de Estados Unidos ni de la CIA, sino de la United Fruit y de su genio publicitario,

Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)

Berkeley is a microcosm of the intrusion of corporations into education. Education, at least an education that challenges assumptions and teaches students to be self-critical, has been sacrificed in a Faustian bargain. Charles Schwartz, an emeritus professor of physics, drew up a chart that showed that in the last fourteen years, from 1993 to 2007,

Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

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 At

John Perkins • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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 bargain