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> Greg Grandin: “The true ‘Latin Americanization’ of the US isn’t rehashing negative stereotypes of Latin America but understanding how the same violent economic restructuring that was imposed on Latin America in the late Cold War was imposed on the US after the Cold War.”
> It’s supremely ironic that a failed casino magnate, with former mob connections, wants to re-take Cuba. The sinister course of American imperialism couldn’t have traveled in a fuller circle.