At the heart of U.S. foreign involvement lies pri- vate corporate expansion.... U.S. corporate structure is increasingly worldwide in scope and this, more than any other single factor, accounts for U.S. counter-revolutionary involvement throughout the world. For U.S. corporate and financial interests and the governments they control, revolution and independent national development are equated with exclusion of U.S. interests from the market- place. Such exclusion is, for them, a threat to their very survival. -Vol 2, No. 2, April 1968 o-called aid, with all its well known conditions, Means markets and greater development for the developed countries, but has not in fact managed to compensate for the money that leaves Latin America in payment oT tne external debt and as a result of the profits generated by direct private investment. In one word, Latin America gives more than it receives. -Gabriel Valdes, Foreign Minister of Chile, Vol. 3, No. 8, December 1969 The Alliance for Progress, which attempted through accelerated industrial- ization to restructure and strengthen the local bour- geoisie into a buttress for U.S. operations, failed miserably. Instead, military dictatorships, which are a good indication of the weakness and disunity within the bourgeois ranks, have become the most accepted and effective form of government. -Vol. 5, No. 6, October 1971 The increased consciousness of U.S. objectives, pro- duced to a great extent by the success of the Cuban Revolution, has forced the imperialists to employ even more covert methods of exploitation.... By working through the IMF and the World Bank, by shrouding its purpose in the language of interna- tional "developmentalism," the United States can increase its demand on Third World countries with- out incurring proportionate anti-U.S. sentiment. -Vol. 7, No. 7, September 1973 The military coup against the Unidad Popular gov- ernment was the end product of a long and tenacious campaign by the Chilean right, aided by U.S. government and corporate leaders, aimed at reversing the tide of history in Chile.... U.S. involve- ment in the coup...reached beyond the "invisible" economic blockade and included financial and material aid to the civilian and military forces which overthrew Allende. The U.S. anti-Allende actions complemented the Chilean right-wing offensive, and neither can be understood in isolation. -Vol. 7, No. 8, October 1973 The Carter administration's efforts to halt the most flagrant violations of human rights in the Southern Cone, without challenging the underlying social system which has brought about these viola- tions, is like a doctor treating the more sensational symptoms without attacking the disease. The prob- lem is imperialism itself. U.S. efforts to restrain excessive violations...will always be checked by the need to preserve and defend the existing global sys- tem of economic and property relations. -Vol. 12, No. 2, March/April 1979 A n empire is sustained, in part, by the image of its invincibility. If it suffers defeats in its own back- yard, questions are raised about its strength through- out the world, both among its enemies and its allies. Herein lies the real U.S. stake in El Salvador. -Vol. 14, No. 1, January/February 1980 "T he battle [against the Sandinista government] is not going on at the ideological and political levels alone, and it is not being fought out primarily among Nicaraguans with merely aid and comfort from the Reagan administration. Under- pinning all these attempts to break the fragile national unity in Nicaragua is the first and most basic level of the U.S. assault: economic warfare. The hoped-for sequence of events is that the disruption of economic activities will lead to social unrest, which in turn will induce political turmoil. -Vol. 16, No. 1, January/February 1982 Critical examination of U.S. media coverage of events in Grenada from the advent of [Maurice Bishop's] New Jewel government in 1979 to the U.S. invasion [in 1983) shows that while the Reagan administration prepared the Grenadian dish for public consumption, the nation's print and elec- tronic media set the table.... Administration officials lectured the public on, and the press duly reported, not a U.S. invasion against Grenada, but a U.S. con- frontation with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Grenada had disappeared. How much easier to win support for a battle against the Soviet Union-pick- ing someone "our own size"-than little Grenada. -Vol. 18, No. 1, January/February 1984 ot so long ago, most everyone on the left agreed that U.S. military intervention in the internal affairs of another country should a priori be opposed. The case of Haiti has shattered that con- sensus.... [Some] oppose intervention in Haiti in any form, [while others] think only the United States has the clout-not to mention the moral responsibility -to restore Aristide to power. -Vol. 27, No. 4, JanuarylFebruary, 1994
