15 Quotes by jon lee anderson

One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear-old son for a swim at the yacht club, but itwas already the onset of the Argentine winter,cold and windy. That night, the little boy hada coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as sufferingfrom asthmatic bronchitis and prescribedthe normal remedies, but the attack lasted forseveral days. Ernestito had developed chronicasthma, which would afflict him for the rest ofhis life and irrevocably change the course of hisparents’ lives.

To die with dignity does not require company

In the anti-Communist atmosphere of the Cold War, U.S. support of right-wing military dictatorships -Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Manuel Odria in Peru, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela - at the expense of outspoken nationalists or left-wing regimes, was rationalized in the name of national security.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country will be in the hands of white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians. The former being a little superior in education, as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.