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Democracies and Tyrannies of the Carribean in the 1940's describes vividly the tyrannical and corrupt forces that controlled, with U.S. support, most Central American countries at that time.

No U.S. publisher would risk this book in the 40's. It was published in Spanish in 1949; the original English version in 1984; and again in 1999 with a new introduction by the author.

Essential reading for those concerned with the recent history of Latin America, and for the general public in North America and Europe that has suddenly come face to face with a hitherto unknown continent, thanks to such arrangements as NAFTA.

There is nothing quite like this book in its field and to not read it is to risk real impoverishment in both the discipline of Latin American studies and in the practical, day to day business and friendly dealings with the polyglot civilizations that crowd the isthmus and continent south of the Rio Grande.