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Dear listers and listeners,
An intersting piece [of writing] regurgitated by our godfathers at AL Daily
describes the Cold War climate and its journalistic affiliates (CIA funded
social commentary in a variety of tongues) thusly:
"Cuadernos, the CCF's first Spanish-language effort, is a case in point: it was
distributed in Spain and Latin America from 1953 until 1965. Edited throughout
most of its lifespan by a Spaniard living in exile, it was frequently tone deaf
and reactionary. It defended not only military coups in Latin America but even
the Spanish conquest; and its argument that Latin America was a part of the
West failed to attract much of an audience among left-leaning intellectuals.
The Mexican satirist Jorge Ibargüengoitia, in one of his short stories,
describes Cuadernos as having 'a decidedly anti-Communist air; but on studying
it carefully, I began to suspect that it was just the opposite; that is, an
apparently anti-Communist magazine, made by the Communists, to discredit the
anti-Communists'."
The whole review at
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-spy-who-funded-me-revisiting-the-congress-for-cultural-freedom/
Reminds [one] of the Memphistic classic "We can't go on together // with
Suspicious Minds."
