MacEoin, Gary. Revolution Next Door: Latin America in the 1970s. New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. 242 pages.
The notion that Latin America has reason to revolt against U.S. neo-
colonialism deserves barely a yawn today, but back in 1971 it was noteworthy.
With some exceptions (such as the North American Congress on Latin America),
the New Left had burned out over its exclusive focus on Vietnam. Leftists
were broadly familiar with the CIA in Guatemala in 1954 and Cuba in 1961, and
Johnson's invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, but little was known
about CIA involvement in Brazil's coup in 1964, the organizing by radical
Catholic priests, or U.S. neocolonial instruments such as the American
Institute for Free Labor Development and the Agency for International
Development. This was two years before the CIA's coup in Chile, four years
before the Church Committee hearings and Philip Agee's revelations, and
seven years before the revolution in Nicaragua. Author Gary MacEoin saw it
coming and tried to announce it in this book.
In the mid-1980s, by contrast, all attention was focused on Central
America. But just as the U.S. left was finally able to place a politically-
correct roll on the "r" in "Nicaragua" without sounding silly, they got
blown away again by Bush's war against Iraq. With some exceptions -- such as
the Middle East Research and Information Project -- no one knew much about
the Gulf. By 1994 it looks like the U.S. left is down for the count.
ISBN 0-03-091482-5
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