Nick Arnett wrote: > > Gautam insists that the United States' support for > repressive regimes in Latin America was justified > by the "real" communist insurgencies, rejecting > the idea that there may have been other, greater > motivations. This followed his suggestion that > Alberto (and I suppose me, by extension) has been duped > by communist propaganda. To which I say, baloney. > No, it�s not. I _know_ I have been submitted to communist propaganda through all my childhood, a time when we are most suscetible to propaganda.
I heard several times that those that fought against dictatorship, against torture, in favour of free press, in favour of human rights, were communists. I have to repress my childhood education to accept the idea that _both_ sides in the Cold War - and not only the USA allies - were pro-dictatorship, pro-torture, against free press and against human rights. Alberto Monteiro
