the people south of the U.S. border must think of any country with such grandiose views of itself that the entire rest of the hemisphere south is seen as a "backyard." It means we ordinarily don't even pay attention to what goes on there, unless they get out of line, as our attention is focused elsewhere.
That's actually the way they have treated Latin America in the news coverage here from the first. Ignore them completely, while American businesses bleed them dry, and all the moves are made covertly to overthrow populist Presidents and replace them with right-wing regimes, and pay off all the key people to keep things running smoothly, train their police forces, and their militaries to be wildly brutal and terrifying, train them in torture techniques, going back all the way to the Eisenhower administration, at least, when they hired mega-torturer, Dan Mitrione, who worked mostly in Brazil and Uruguay.
Dan Mitrione:
THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1979 A19
Torture’s Teachers
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/langguthleaf.htmlUruguay 1964-1970
Torture - as American as apple pie
excerpted from the book
Killing Hope
by William Blum
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Uruguay_KH.html Assassination Attempts: Dan A. Mitrione Government Agent Part 1
About the assassination of Dan A. Mitrione a U.S. government agent, his biography and history in Uruguay.
http://www.trivia-library.com/a/assassination-attempts-dan-a-mitrione-government-agent-part-1.htm
A true demon, Dan Mitrione
named a great "hero" by NixonLooks as if these many, many people from the tip of Chile all the way north have learned from their bitter suffering, and are coming together, at long last, and they have so many well-wishers here, so many human friends who never even knew their taxes were being used to harm these people until decades later.
"Backyard." Almost could make a maggot gag. Racist, classist, filthy word.