“Our America is integrated by a group of more or less homogeneous countries and in most parts of its territory U. S. monopolist capitals maintain an absolute supremacy. Puppet governments or, in the best of cases, weak and fearful local rulers, are incapable of contradicting orders from their Yankee master.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

Message to the Tricontinental (1967)

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