Suggested Reading
Reivich, Lois
Edwin Lieuwen, The United States and the Challenge to Security in Latin America, The Social Science Program of the Mershon Center for Education in National Security, Ohio State University Press,...
...military bases...
...Reprinted with permission from Ohio State Univ...
...Also, the Canal Zone is the headquarters of counterinsurgency instruction for Latin America and the site of U.S...
...Lieuwen writes: As far as the United States government is concerned, the vested interests of its citizens are inseparably intertwined with the security of the nation, for nearly half the Latin American investments are in petroleum and mining enterprises, the products of which are indispensable to the U.S...
...from the U.S.S.R., China or even Cuba), but from the forces of Latin America"s "non-democratic radical left...
...security prospects is one of an eternal optimist aboard a sinking ship...
...Mili- tarily, the Panama Canal is considered "vital" to the shipment of supplies to South- east Asia...
...rationale for military intervention in Latin America: "primarily a host of mostly tangible military and economic interests and a multitude of mostly intangible political interests" (p...
...Edwin Lieuwen, The United States and the Challenge to Security in Latin America, The Social Science Program of the Mershon Center for Education in National Security, Ohio State University Press, April, 1966, 9 8 pp, $1.50...
...Lieuwen is rewarding precisely because he has dropped the mask of liberal rhetoric...
...Startling in his honesty, Lieuwen sets forth the U.S...
...However, Lieuwen"s discussion of 1970 U.S...
...interests in Latin America is not external (i.e...
...economy in peace as well as in wa(p...
...He concludes that the greatest threat to U.S...
...Economically, we must protect our foreign markets and supply of raw materials...
Vol. 1 • August 1967 • No. 6
