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“Politics is a form of selective amnesia. The people who survive it are our only insurance against forgetting.”
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
“In the 1980s, administrations in Washington saw Central America through the totalizing prism of the Cold War. Over the next few decades, the fear of the spread of leftism morphed into a fear of the spread of people. A straight line extends between the two, pulled taut during the intervening years of forced emigration, mass deportation, and political expediency. Immigration laws draw sharp boundaries around citizenship and identity, casting this history aside. Politics is a form of selective amnesia. The people who survive it are our only insurance against forgetting.”
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
“There were two powers running Guatemala after the Second World War, and only one of them was the government. The other was an American corporation called the United Fruit Company, known inside the country as the Octopus because it had tentacles everywhere. It was Guatemala’s largest employer and landowner, controlling the country’s only Atlantic port, almost every mile of the railroads, and the nation’s sole telephone and telegraph facilities. US State Department officials had siblings in the upper ranks of the company.”
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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