{"id":591869,"date":"2022-04-06T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=239023"},"modified":"2022-04-06T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:01:07","slug":"living-with-the-questions-roosevelt-montas-and-the-tricky-thing-about-liberal-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/06\/living-with-the-questions-roosevelt-montas-and-the-tricky-thing-about-liberal-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Living With the Questions: Roosevelt Mont\u00e1s and the Tricky Thing about Liberal Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roosevelt Mont\u00e1s 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 \u2026 el Yanqui Imperialismo was a norm of international relations with which I was well acquainted.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/06\/living-with-the-questions-roosevelt-montas-and-the-tricky-thing-about-liberal-education\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/06\/living-with-the-questions-roosevelt-montas-and-the-tricky-thing-about-liberal-education\/\">Living With the Questions: Roosevelt Mont\u00e1s and the Tricky Thing about Liberal Education<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/04\/06\/living-with-the-questions-roosevelt-montas-and-the-tricky-thing-about-liberal-education\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roosevelt Mont\u00e1s 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. &#8220;I underst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592055,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591869\/revisions\/592055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}