Word: arevalo
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...Much of Arevalo's analysis could have been performed by any Latin politician, if less forcefully. His great contribution in Anti-Kommunism in Latin America is his unique discussion of the Catholic Church and its role. He makes an impassioned plea for liberal thought by the Church, and systematically tears down the conservative positions that have long been advanced on the part of Catholicism. One feels his deep sense of tragedy when he concludes his discussion of the Church: "Respectable public: the comedy is over. Too bad that we have ended up in Hell...
...little less exciting to read and in a sense, terribly convincing. The rhetoric and stinging satire are still present, but now the generalizations are not quite as sweeping, the attacks and conclusions not quite as unbelievable. In this book, one need not agree whole-heartedly with Arevalo in order to admit that he has some vital points to make. Fidel Castro's rise to power and the Panama Canal crisis are far less shocking when one realizes that Arevalo's arguments have been read widely in Latin America for many years...
Anti-Kommunism in Latin America is more respectable than The Shark and the Sardines. It is surprising to find acknowledgements at the end of chapters this time; every assertion cannot be accounted to Arevalo-the-madman exclusively...
...Arevalo's writing is turgid, and his often-undocumented charges still become tiring. The real truth about Latin America is not so apparent
...little less exciting to read and in a sense, terribly convincing. The rhetoric and stinging satire are still present, but now the generalizations are not quite as sweeping, the attacks and conclusions not quite as unbelievable. In this book, one need not agree whole-heartedly with Arevalo in order to admit that he has some vital points to make. Fidel Castro's rise to power and the Panama Canal crisis are far less shocking when one realizes that Arevalo's arguments have been read widely in Latin America for many years...