Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 187

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 73

  Schilling, Paulo, 128

  Schnerb, Robert, 198

  Shell Oil Company, 157-60, 166, 268 Shipping, 260-61

  Silver, 29; Amazonian, 137; Andean 41tiplano, 15; Bolivian, 14, 20-22, 32,33,34,36,39,40,44,136,145; German, 36; Mexican, 14-15, 22, 37

  Slaves, 30, 31, 34, 38, 48, 52, 53-54; Central America, 107; cotton plantations, 94; revolts, 83; sugar plantations, 59, 60, 61, 66, 67, 79 Slave trade, 28; Angola-Brazil, 54, Dutch, 56, 62, 80; English, 56, 79-82, 174; French, 28; Guinea-Brazil, 54; sugar plantation, 79; United States, 202 Smith, Adam, 79, 180 Smith, Earl, 72

  Smith, Walter Bedell, 113

  Solano Lopez, Francisco, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195

  Somoza, Anasruio, 110-1 1, 270

  South Sea Company, 80

  Soviet Union, 75n, 159, 160, 209

  Spain, 12, 15, 22-28, 29, 115, 132

  Spices, 12, 14

  Standard Oil of California, 158, 162

  Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon), 136, 157-61, 162, 165-66, 168, 268

  321

  Standard Oil of New York (Mobil), 158

  State: terrorism and, 274-75

  Strikes, 285

  Stroessner, Alfredo, 194, 195, 196

  Sugar, 3, 29, 109; Brazil, 50, 52, 54, 56, 61-65, 130; Caribbean, 65-67; Cuba, 67-78, 176; development, 59-61; "sugar islands," 65

  Sulphur, 136n

  Sweezy, Paul, 226, 267

  Taft, William H., 107

  Tantalite, 137, 139

  Taxes, 1, 157, 165, 168, 174, 239

  Technocrats, 227-37

  Technology: dependency, 277-78; foreign ownership and control, 243-47

  Tenochtitlin, 19, 44

  Terrorism: state and class and, 274-75; in system of repression, 283-84

  Texaco, 158, 161, 166

  Textiles, 175-78, 201, 239

  Thorium, 137, 138

  Thornton, Edward, 191, 192

  Timber, 51, 68

  Tin, 33, 147-52

  Tires, 88

  Titanium, 137

  Tobacco, 54, 68, 67, 79, 91, 102

  Torres, Juan Jose, 274

  Torture, 283-84

  Toussaint L'Ouverture, 66

  Transport system: for commodities, 250-61

  Trias, Vivian, 186

  Trinidad-Tobago, 65, 174

  TripleAlliance, 188, 195, 197, 200 Tupac Amaru, 44-45

  Turner, John Kenneth, 121

  Ubico Castaneda, Jorge, 110, 112-13, 114

  Underdevelopment, 245, 285

  322

  Union Carbide, 217

  United Fruit Company, 100, 106, 108-10, 206

  United Nations, 3; Economic Mission for Latin America (ECLA), 93, 1 0 1, 207, 216, 251n, 278; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 64; UNESCO, 73

  United States, 4-8, 49, 261; cacao, 93; and Central America, 107-10, 113-14; CIA, 136-37; coffee, 100-101, 105, 110; cotton, 95; and Cuba, 70-75, 77; family planning, 5; foreign aid, 228-29; foreign banking, 223-27; and Haiti, 66; industrial development, 202-4; investments, 205-10, 218-19, 276; and LAFTA, 252-58; Latin American interventions, 272-73; Marine Corps, 77, 111, 123; and Mexico, 121; mineral imports, 134-38, 144-46, 149, 153-56; mineral need, 134-35,137-38;petroleum,157-69; protectionism, 200-4; railroads, 106; shipping, 202-3; slavery, 79; technology investment and development, 245; textiles, 202-3; westward expansion, 131-32 U.S. Steel, 91, 153

  Uranium, 139

  Uruguay, 6-7, 48, 128, 188, 191, 21 1, 230n; agrarian reform, 1 17-20; debt, 276-77; military and police budget, 271; petroleum, 160-61; repression in, 283, 284; rice, 95; wages and prices, 279

  Varela, Felipe, 184

  Vargas, Getulio, 99, 154, 210-13, 216n Velasco Alvarado, Juan, 95, 136, 164, 220n,269

  Venezuela, 6, 14, 31; agrarian reform, 128; cacao, 91; imports, 268-69; Indians, 49; iron, 153-56; nationalization of oil, 268; petroleum, 91, 136, 157, 159, 165-70

  Vespucci, Amerigo, 14

  Videla, Jorge, 273, 275, 276

  Vietnam, 6

  Villa Francisco ("Pancho"), 123

  Vinhas de Queiroz, Mauricio, 216

  Volkswagen: Brazilian production, 267-68, 279

  Wages, 250, 251; prices and, 279-81

  Walker, William, 107

  Wal h, Rodolfo, 276

  323

  War of the Triple Alliance, 188-97

  Washington, George, 203

  Washington Post, 11 5

  Watt, James, 81, 94

  Webb, James Watson, 178

  West Germany, 4, 93

  West Indies, 65

  Wickham, Henry, 89

  Wilhelm (Kaiser), 274

  Wilson, Henry Lane, 123

  Wilson, Woodrow, 2

  Wood, Leonard, 71

  Woods, George D., 235

  Working class. See Class; Labor

  World Bank, 5-6, 221, 235-36, 239, 273. See also International Monetary Fund World Coffee Information Center, I 00

  World Market, 237-43

  Yaqui Indians, 48, 61, 121

  YucarAn (Mexico), 48, 61, 121

  Zander, Arnold, 136

  Zapata, Emiliano, 120, 122-24

  Zavala, Maza, 126

  Zavaleta, Ren@, 163

  Zinc, 134, 136, 137

  Zuazo, Alonso, 83

  Zumbi (Indian chief), 84

  324

 


 

  Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America

 


 

 
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