Masters of War Latin America and U. S. Agression from the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years

Clara Nieto served in the Colombian mission to the United Nations from 1960-1967; was head of the Colombian Delegation at UNESCO, Paris, from 1967-1970; was Colombian Charge d'Affairs in Yugoslavia until 1976; served as Colombian Ambassador to Cuba from 1977-1980; & from 1984-1986 was Director of UNESCO's regional office for Latin America & the Caribbean stationed in Havana. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers, including "El Tiempo", "El Espectador", "El Mundo" & "NACLA". She lives in New York City & Bogota, Colombia.

Chris Brandt is a writer, translator & teacher, His work has been anthologized in "Appearances", "Crimes of the Beats" & "Mr. Knife Miss Ford" among others. He translated Carmen Valle's "Wild Animals Between Waking & Dreaming" & for"The New Yorker", Miguel Barnet's Monsivais. He lives in New York City.

A committed radical historian and activist, Howard Zinn approaches the study of the past from the point of view of those whom he feels have been exploited by the powerful. Zinn was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. After working in local shipyards during his teens, he joined the U.S. Army Air Force, where he saw combat as a bombardier in World War II. He received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1958 and was a postdoctoral fellow in East Asian studies at Harvard University. While teaching at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, Zinn joined the civil rights movement and wrote The Southern Mystique (1964) and SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964). He also became an outspoken…  More critic of the Vietnam War, writing Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967) and visiting Hanoi to receive the first American prisoners released by the North Vietnamese. Zinn's best-known and most-praised work, as well as his most controversial, is A People's History of the United States (1980). It explores American history under the thesis that most historians have favored those in power, leaving another story untold. Zinn discusses such topics as Native American views of Columbus and the socialist and anarchist opposition to World War I in examining his theory that historical change is most often due to "mass movements of ordinary people." Zinn's other books include You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1995) and Artists in Times of War (2004). He has also written the plays Emma (1976), Daughter of Venus (1985), and Marx in Soho (1999).  Less