After reading Chapters 9 & 10 of the book Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America,(Chasteen) answer the following: What things made a Marxist view of History persuasive to many Latin Americans in the 1950’s and the 1960’s? How did the Cold War context define US Latin American relations from the 1950’s through the 1980’s? After reading Chapters 8 and 9 of Born of Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices answer the following question: Confessions of a Torturer. How did Romo view the people whose torture he supervised? How did he view the act of torture itself?
