The Left Is on the Rise in Latin America

In the 50s there were a series of left-wing revolutions in Latin America. The US government gets caught off guard by all of these revolutions as it generally is by everything that happens and Latin America like they saw it as basically our property. President Kennedy issued orders for the ground school to start training students in counter insurgency courses. Professor Michael McClintock describes them as legitimization of state terrorism, which he calls "the new McCarthyism"