Under the Eagle, by Jenny Pearce, Latin America Bureau, £2.50 JENNY PEARCE's new book valuable weapon for all those who stand on the side of the people Central America and the Caribbean against the bloody American-backed dictatorships oppress them. The book traces the history of American domina. tion of the region starting with the Monroe doctrine in the first half of the nineteenth tury, through to the notior manifest destiny' exemplified by Teddy Roosevelt's pugnacious perialism, to the pre Sent revolutionary struagles in that region.
Particularly valuable strategy States 5=== 1960s. In response:o ire Cuban revolution and rising discontent in the region, the US, through the Alliance for Prothe Central American Market and similar schemes attempted to assist the economic and development of the region alternative to revolution.
Phoney land reform schemes abounded. Such industrialisation as occurred was dependent industrialisation, under the control of the US multinationals and benefitting only the controlling oligarchy.
Twenty years later the result of this project clear. The ruling elites re main intact, except in Nicaragua where licy laye been overthrown by the Sandinista revolutionaries The masses 200 0 2=1 'moderate middle way seems credible to no one.
Perhaps most inSocialist Challenge view revolutionary Suralee and future of developments Jenny Pearce's remarks on Guatemala. This country, she argues, is in many ways the key to the region Guatemala is the coun try with the bulk of US in vestment in the region. Oil has been discovered on the border with Mexico. The links between the Guatemalan oligarchy and the Reagan camp are par Although the political violence in the country has not reached open civil was as in EI Salvador, 25,000 people have been killed since the late '60s, perhaps 5,000 in the last year.
The army kills 40 peo ple a day, while the left wing guerrillas ticularly the Guerrilla Ar my of the Poor - grow in.
Any stalemate in El Salvador, Jenn Pearce could be broken by the aevelopments Guatemala campaign with inese::
task for socialists.
21 January 1982
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