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Viva la Revolucion - Hobsbawm on Latin America (Paperback)
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Viva la Revolucion - Hobsbawm on Latin America (Paperback)
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Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only
region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and
where he felt entirely at home. He claimed this was because it was
the only part of the Third World whose two principal languages,
Spanish and Portuguese, were within his reach. But he was also, of
course, attracted by the potential for social revolution in Latin
America. After the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba in January 1959,
and even more after the defeat of the American attempt to overthrow
him at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, 'there was not an
intellectual in Europe or the USA', he wrote, 'who was not under
the spell of Latin America, a continent apparently bubbling with
the lava of social revolutions'. 'The Third World brought the hope
of revolution back to the First in the 1960s'. The two great
international inspirations were Cuba and Vietnam, 'triumphs not
only of revolution, but of Davids against Goliaths, of the weak
against the all-powerful'.
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