A United States Dilemma: Economic Opportunity and Anti-Americanism in El Salvador, 1901-1911

Antología del pensamiento crítico salvadoreño contemporáneo

“…Sin embargo, la capacidad de Alfaro para cambiar de lado estaba bien establecida. Él había sido aliado de Zelaya en Nicaragua y luego recibió el apoyo del guatemalteco Estrada Cabrera, el archienemigo de Zelaya (Schoonover, 1989). La existencia de este documento indica, por lo menos, que para Alfaro y Dárdano el antiimperialismo era un tema que podía ayudar a reclutar gente para apoyarlos en su búsqueda del poder.…”

Anti‐American Resistance in Latin America: An Issue of Sovereignty, Militarization, and Neoliberalism

“…It is important to highlight that along with most of these manifestations of anti‐US sentiment, extensive narratives that challenged and defied the position of the United States in Latin America were articulated by diverse sectors. This anti‐US narrative was evident from the assembly depositions in Cuba in 1902 to the newspapers and radio in Panama (1950s) and Bolivia (1960s), to the debates of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana Cuba in 1966 (Barcia 2009; Pérez 1999; Schoonover 1989; Siekmeier 2000). Thus, the anti‐US sentiment was articulated in written words across the continent, making it more pervasive as it filtered into other areas of political life.…”