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Twisted Roots Twisted Roots: Latin America’s Living Past Carlos Alberto Montaner Translated by Louis Aguilar and Marilú del Toro Algora Publishing New York © 2003 by Algora Publishing. All Rights Reserved www.algora.com No portion of this book (beyond what is permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976) may be reproduced by any process, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 0-87586-197-0 (ebook) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Montaner, Carlos Alberto. [Las Raíces Torcidas de América Latina. English] Twisted roots : the historical and cultural influences that shaped Latin America / by Carlos Alberto Montaner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87586-261-6 (hard : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-87586-260-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-87586-203-9 (ebook) 1. Latin America—History. 2. Social conflict—Latin America—History. 3. Legitimacy of governments—Latin America—History. I. Title. F1410.M717513 2003 980—dc22 2003019568 Printed in the United States An indispensable book for understanding why Latin America has been, until now, an unfulfilled promise. — Mario Vargas Llosa Translators' Note: Quotations were translated from the author's Spanish and were not taken from the original English, in the case that the text had been written in English, or from published English translations of texts written in another language. The titles that appear in English of publications that were originally written in another language were either already in existence or were a direct transla- tion from a simple title. For other, more difficult titles, they either appear only in the original language or, in the case of Spanish titles, they appear in the orig- inal Spanish and my own translation. The word "liberal" to refer to a political inclination is used to mean favoring lit- tle government intervention in the economy. For Beatriz Bernal, to whom this book and I owe so much
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