The Salvadoran and Guatemalan governments could hardly do the same—the...
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- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media whole source · open book
The Salvadoran and Guatemalan governments could hardly do the same—the Salvadoran government especially had to contend with a negative nationalist reaction to obvious foreign (i.e., U.S.) domination and manipulation of its affairs, a fact that reached the level of absurdity when Duarte, visiting Washington in the fall of 1987, made himself an object of ridicule throughout Latin America by promptly kissing the American flag.
chapter: 3 Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua