Roosevelt Montás spent his first eleven years in a mountain town in the Dominican Republic. His father, a self-taught Marxist with a sixth-grade education, was dedicated to fighting the Balaguer regime, installed by a 1965 US-sponsored coup. "I understood early in life the realpolitik of American cold war policy, and how it was used to justify abuses in Latin America," writes Roosevelt. "I saw Dad go to jail … el Yanqui Imperialismo was a norm of international relations with which I was well acquainted." More
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