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<blockquote data-quote="Dale00" data-source="post: 1307404" data-attributes="member: 688"><p>You make a good point. No doubt there is plenty of dirt to be dug up in the bloody history of Central and South America. I have difficulty laying all the blame at our feet, however. Castro and communism were on the move and were not angels by any measure. I haven&#039;t studied the history of the region but if the US had stayed out, the communists may have prevailed. Your implication is that our hands are dirty and you are probably right but I&#039;m unclear how else we might have effectively opposed communism. Given Stalin and Mao&#039;s massive human rights violations, giving them unopposed access would not have been a good thing for the people of the region. I believe the average person was better off in the &quot;banana republics&quot; than they were in Castro&#039;s Cuba. At least in the banana republics free enterprise could function and meet the needs of people and limited freedoms existed.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Dale00, post: 1307404, member: 688"] You make a good point. No doubt there is plenty of dirt to be dug up in the bloody history of Central and South America. I have difficulty laying all the blame at our feet, however. Castro and communism were on the move and were not angels by any measure. I haven't studied the history of the region but if the US had stayed out, the communists may have prevailed. Your implication is that our hands are dirty and you are probably right but I'm unclear how else we might have effectively opposed communism. Given Stalin and Mao's massive human rights violations, giving them unopposed access would not have been a good thing for the people of the region. I believe the average person was better off in the "banana republics" than they were in Castro's Cuba. At least in the banana republics free enterprise could function and meet the needs of people and limited freedoms existed. [/QUOTE]

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