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I agree with what Carter said, this reading showed Reagan in an extremely biased light. However, he did botch his tour of Latin America by mistaking Brazil for Bolivia. I honestly believe Reagan had ...

I enjoyed reading about the broad range of success in different juntas. I think that initially, each rebel group had an equally poor shot at actually staging a successful coup. They usually had lead ...

Yeah this was dense as hell. I actually had to start twice because on my first attempt I failed to absorb any information.

This discussion in this reading focused a lot more on the literature rega ...

First off, Julia: Word to everything you said in your post. That was awesome.

I was not a fan of President Johnson before I read this chapter. I thought he was sneaky and warlike, and had none o ...

These letters made it sound like the whole crisis was just a big misunderstanding. While that may be true to some extent, I feel like Castro, Kennedy and Khrushchev were egging each other on in a glo ...

In response to Maggie’s question:

This is yet another example of how the United States treats Latin America as its back yard. In Europe, it was in the best interests of the United States to send m ...

I don’t think the threat of communism threatened the American family nearly as much as the fear of communism. I think the fear of communism in general was fueled by the rapid advancement of the Sovie ...