The State of Latin America

Arciniegas, Germán, The State of Latin America, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

Reviewed in The Western Political Quarterly © 1952.

Contents:

Introduction: The Reason for this Book.

I. Which Way Latin America?

II. Double Talk.

III. The Ego with Two Heads: Sinister.

IV. The Ego with Two Heads: Dexter.

V. Perón’s Justicialism is Fascism.

VI. The Military vs. Aprismo in Peru.

VII. Venezuela, or the Military in Oil Heaven.

VIII. Bolivia, Land of Tin, Military, and Gallows Fruit.

IX. Paraguay, Land of Dilemma.

X. Colombia, or How to Destroy a Democracy.

XI. The Colombians in Korea.

XII. Brazil: A Continent within a Continent.

XIII. Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay: A Triangle above a Void.

XIV. The Caribbean, World Hurricane Center – I (Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama).

XV. The Caribbean, World Hurricane Center – II (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico).

XVI. Mexico, or the Eagle and the Serpent.

XVII. The Army and the Armies of Latin America.

XVIII. Latin America’s Hopes and Fears.

XIX. Visible and Invisible America.