1. The United States and the Development of Latin America
During the first period the U.S. contributed to many of the factors-racial and class divisions, weak central governments, poor state administration, the absence of nationalistic fervor within the populations, export oriented economies, the absence of strong state institutions-that precluded formation of strong states consistent with Miguel Angel Centeno's theses in his work Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (2002)1. ... Indeed part of the purpose of operation PBSUCCESS was to ensure the continued export of agricultural products from the United Fruit Company'...
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