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Greg Grandin

Assistant Professor of History Ph.D. 1999, Yale; BA 1992, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

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How Donald Rumsfeld Discovered the Wild West in Latin America

by Greg Grandin

Caracas (Venezuela) | 17 May 2006

How fast has Latin America fallen from favor? Just a decade ago the Clinton administration was holding up the region as the crown jewel of globalization’s promise: All is quiet on "our southern flank," reported the head of the US Southern Command, General Barry McCaffrey, in 1995, "our neighbors (…)

Latin America’s New Consensus

by Greg Grandin

Caracas (Venezuela) | 25 April 2006

Even as the United States wages a war in the Persian Gulf that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice describes as a central front in an epic "generational struggle" in defense of Western values and freedoms, another geopolitical threat has been massing on its southern flank.