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The Living Thought of Military Dictatorships
Galeano, Eduardo | January 8, 2001 issue

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During the leaden years of late, Latin American generals managed to make their ideology heard despite the roar of machine guns, bombs, trumpets, and drums. Carried away with mystical exhilaration, Guatemalan general Efrain Rios Montt bellowed, "The Holy Spirit runs our intelligence service!" Carried away with scientific exhilaration, Uruguayan rear admiral Hugo Marquez roared, "We have turned the nation's history around by three hundred and sixty degrees!" Uruguayan politician Adauto Puflales thundered, "Communism is an octopus that has its head in Moscow and its testicles everywhere!"

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WORLD politics; LATIN Americans; ARMED Forces -- Officers; GENERALS; INTELLIGENCE service; COMMUNISM
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