Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked

[Dave Monroe]

Neither Peace nor Freedom:
The Cultural Cold War in Latin America
Patrick Iber

During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and
scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and
even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and
their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations
sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed
World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for Cultural Freedom,
and, after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the homegrown Casa de las
Américas.

Neither Peace nor Freedom delves into the entwined histories of these
organizations and the aspirations and dilemmas of intellectuals who
participated in them, from Diego Rivera and Pablo Neruda to Gabriel
Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Patrick Ibercorrects the view
that such individuals were merely pawns of the competing superpowers.
Movements for democracy and social justice sprung up among
pro-Communist and anti-Communist factions, and Casa de las Américas
promoted a brand of revolutionary nationalism that was beholden to
neither the Soviet Union nor the United States.

But ultimately, intellectuals from Latin America could not break free
from the Cold War’s rigid binaries. With the Soviet Union demanding
fealty from Latin American communists, the United States zealously
supporting their repression, and Fidel Castro pushing for regional
armed revolution, advocates of social democracy found little room to
promote their ideals without compromising them. Cold War politics had
offered utopian dreams, but intellectuals could get neither the peace
nor the freedom they sought

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286047

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