Why did so many Latin American leftists believe they could
replicate the Cuban Revolution in their own countries, and why did
so many rightists fear the spread of Communism?
Cognitive-psychological insights about people's distorted
inferences and skewed interest calculations explain why the left
held exaggerated hopes and why the right experienced excessive
dread. The resulting polarization provoked a powerful backlash in
which the right uniformly defeated the left. To forestall the
feared spread of revolution, the military in many countries imposed
authoritarian regimes and brutally suppressed left-wingers. Overly
worried about the advance of Cuban-inspired radicalism as well, the
United States condoned and supported the installation of
dictatorship, but Latin American elites took the main initiative in
these regressive regime changes. With a large number of primary and
secondary sources, this book documents how the misperceptions on
both sides of the ideological divide thus played a crucial role in
the frequent destruction of democracy.
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