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Durante el período gubernamental de Juan José Arévalo (1945-1950) comenzaron las alarmas. No porque el profesor Arévalo, que defendía un «socialismo espiritual» confusamente idealista, se hubiera metido contra la United Fruit. Pero hizo aprobar una ley del trabajo que permitía a los obreros y campesinos formar sindicatos o afiliarse a ellos, algo q

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After Africanus’ victory at the Battle of Zama in 202 BCE, at the end of the war with Hannibal, Carthage had agreed to Rome’s demands. Fifty years later, it had just paid off the last instalment of the vast cash indemnity the Romans had imposed. Was this final campaign of destruction simply an act of Roman vengeance, carried out on some trumped-up

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Some proslavery advocates, worried that the booming white settler population might crowd out slavery, sought room for their way of life farther south. They staged a series of “filibusters,” private invasions of Latin American republics that, they hoped, would lead to annexations. The most dramatic was William Walker’s invasion of Nicaragua in 1855,

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For its part, the Soviet Union did what it could to promote anti-American, Communist regimes around the Western Hemisphere and succeeded in Cuba and Nicaragua. It had the advantage of aiding individuals and movements who were fighting against unpopular authoritarian governments that offered little to their people. But again the Soviet help was just

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