Ignored Latin American Terrorism, and Ignored Latin America
Key Terms: Shining Path, Sandinista National Liberation Front, “Plan Colombia”,
Financial War against Terrorism, Drug War, Nacro-guerrillas, “Butterfly Diplomacy”,
Monroe Doctrine, Spanish-American War, globalization, “Machiavellian Diplomacy”
Key Persons: Abimael Guzman (“Comrade Conzalo”), Alberto Fujimori, Alvaro
Uribe, Andres Escobar, Rene Higuita, Hugo Chavez, Batista, Fidel Castro, Che
Guevera, Allende, Pinochet, De la Rua, Eduardo Duhalde, Fernando Cardoso, Lula
Key Places: Latin America, Peru, Colombia, Bogota, Medellin, Venezuela, Cuba,
“Triple Frontiers,” Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay
I. Latin America: Why is it Ignored?
Definition of “Third World” and “Latin America”
Relationship between USA and Latin America:
The Monroe Doctrine (1825) and the Spanish American War (1898)
American Imperialism and the Backyard Analogy
Challengers: Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and the story of Che Guevera
Image of Latin America: Football and Drugs, and the Correlation
II. Latin American Terrorism before 911
Left-wing Terrorism
Peru: Shining Path and its Maoist Doctrine
“Nacro-guerrillas”
Colombia: the Power of Drugs and Cocaine, and its Rationalization
III. Bush “Abandoned” Latin America after 911?
Bush’s Promise and Butterfly Diplomacy before 911
South American Financial Crises
(Ir)-relevancy of Latin American to 911?
The American Abandonment and the Leftward Movement of Latin America
Argentina and Brazil as Examples
IV. Bush “Exploited” Latin America after 911?
The Nature of South America as the Last Shelter of the World
Economic Expansion? Financial War against Terrorism
Military Expansion? “Triple Frontiers” as the Islamic Ghetto
Political Expansion? “Plan Colombia” and the Chavez Coup in Venezuela
V. Conclusion – How do you know the world?
American Preference and our International Knowledge
Feature of Globalization: the Rule of Media and the Lack of “Latin CNN”
Limitations of Globalization: Machiavellian Diplomacy and International Inertia
Demagogue-nature of Latin Americans: Message behind the Live-shows
Question: (1)Why is Latin America often neglected by international news? (2)What
are the similarities and differences between the Latin American response towards 911
and that from other parts of the world?
Main Text: Noam Chomsky. Rogue States: the Rule of Force in World Affairs. New
York: South End Press, 2002. Chapter 5: Plan Colombia. P.62-81.
Supplementary Text: Gordon McCormick. “The Shining Path and Peruvian
Terrorism.” David Rapoport Ed. Inside Terrorist Organizations. London: Frank Cass,
2001. P.109-128.
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