Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism Metropolitan, 2007
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In the 1980s, the emergent US New Right took shape on the battleground of Central America, bringing together secular free-marketers and evangelical Christians in an unholy alliance. Historian Greg Grandin talks about the ideology of US neo-conservatism in Central America, while David McNally speaks about the offensive of neoliberalism and the roots of the current financial meltdown.Download program audio (mp3, 48.7 Mbytes)