Myopia on Latin America

The senior author of The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America belonged until very recently to that small group of American opinion-moulders who boosted the Castro dictatorship. As late as January 1961, Charles O. Porter proposed to a nationwide TV audience that the United States surrender Guantanamo to the Cuban dictator. This would have given the Russians a naval base a few hundred miles from our shores.

The junior author, Dr. Robert J. Alexander of Rutgers, is a social-democratic expert on Latin American Communism who has been singularly backward in perceiving the Communist character of the Castro regime and remarkably myopic concerning the dangers which the United States faces from that quarter.

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Nathaniel Weyl

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The senior author of The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America belonged until very recently to that small group of American opinion-moulders who boosted the Castro dictatorship. As late as January 1961, Charles O. Porter proposed to a nationwide TV audience that the United States surrender Guantanamo to the Cuban dictator. This would have given the Russians a naval base a few hundred miles from our shores.

The junior author, Dr. Robert J. Alexander of Rutgers, is a social-democratic expert on Latin American Communism who has been singularly backward in perceiving the Communist character of the Castro regime and remarkably myopic concerning the dangers which the United States faces from that quarter.