POL305Y1 Lecture Notes - Henry Kissinger, Left Communism, Cuban Revolution
23 Oct 2012
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Rather than personality dictatorships, these bureaucratic authoritarian regimes centred around militarization. Peasants, indigenous, etc revolt for more political say: growing radicalism in the 1960s, fueled in part by the cuban revolution. Armed the military so much, that they intervened, and democratic leaders fell in the 60s and 70s. Characteristics of the military regimes of the 1960s and 1970s: blamed the poor state of their countries on politicians and elites. Banned parties in the media, dismantled congress. Saw themselves as more effective: emphasis on loyalty, authority and stability, military leaders prioritized national security and were preoccupied with internal subversion. Cia worked with these regimes to train them, arm them, in the school of the. Americas (soa); how to torture (shock therapy etc), repress. Soa= us institute for training military officers around the world (georgia: grassroots campaign against the school. 2000, congress of us decided they had to do something about it, so they renamed it, the western hemisphere.
