""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. FREE WORLD VIGNETTES""; ""1. The Miseries of Traditional Life""; ""2. Challenge and Response: Nicaragua""; ""3. Challenge and Response: El Salvador""; ""3.1 The Carter Years""; ""3.2 Reagan Takes Command""; ""4. Challenge and Response: Guatemala""; ""5. The Reagan Administration and Human Rights""; ""6. The Contribution of the Mercenary States""; ""7. The Planning of State Terror""; ""8. The Miseries of Traditional Life: A Further Note""; ""2. THE FIFTH FREEDOM""; ""1. Rhetoric and Reality""; ""2. The Perceptions of the Planners""
""3. Latin America: “An Incident, Not An End�""""4. Planning For Global Hegemony""; ""5. The Crimes of Nicaragua""; ""3. PATTERNS OF INTERVENTION""; ""1. Defending our Sovereignty""; ""2. The Rule of Law and the Rule of Force""; ""3. The US and El Salvador in Historical Perspective""; ""4. Contemporary State Terrorism: the System Established""; ""5. The System Applied: Torturing El Salvador""; ""5.1 Carter�s War""; ""5.2 Duarte�s Role""; ""5.3 Towards “Democracy� in El Salvador""; ""5.4 The Propaganda System Moves into High Gear""; ""5.5 The War Moves into High Gear""
""3. The Lessons to be Drawn""""4. Defense Against the Great Satan: The Doctrine and the Evidence""; ""4.1 Defending the National Territory""; ""4.2 The Defense of Western Europe""; ""4.3 The Containment Doctrine""; ""4.4 Containing the anti-Fascist Resistance: From Death Camps to Death Squads""; ""4.5 Escalation of the Pentagon System: The Pretexts and the Evidence""; ""5. The Roots of the Pentagon System""; ""6. The Consequences""; ""7. Cold War Realities""; ""5. THE CHALLENGE AHEAD""; ""1. The “Conservative� Counterattack""; ""1.1 Confronting the Threat of Democracy at Home""
""5.6 Reaction at Home: Successful Terror and Its Rewards""""6. Torturing Nicaragua""; ""6.1 Before the Crisis""; ""6.2 The Proxy War""; ""6.3 The Elections and the Opposition""; ""6.4 The Free Press at Work""; ""6.5. A Glimpse into the Civilized World""; ""7. Elsewhere in the Region""; ""7.1. Torturing Hispaniola""; ""7.2 Torturing Guatemala""; ""8. Human Rights, the Raising of the Living Standards, and Democratization""; ""9. The Awesome Nobility of our Intentions""; ""4. THE RACE TO DESTRUCTION""; ""1. The Threat of Global War""; ""2. The Nuclear Freeze Campaign: Successes and Failures""
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United States-- Foreign relations-- Central America.
Diplomatic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- General.
Central America, Foreign relations, United States.
United States, Foreign relations, Central America.