John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, “Revolution”
KEYWORDS populism Che Guevara Cuban Missile Crisis Juan and Eva Perón Fidel Castro Liberation Theology Pablo Neruda Bay of Pigs Study Questions:
§ How did Latin American relations with the United States change after World War Two? § In particular, what high hopes of Latin American nationalists were disappointed in a postwar
world? § In what ways does the 1954 US intervention in Guatemala exemplify patterns of the emerging
Cold War in Latin America? What is to be learned by comparison with Bolivia? § What things made a Marxist view of history persuasive to many Latin Americans in the 1950s
and 1960s? § Did the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 present a plausible model for would-be
guerrillas around the region?