decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy-one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal-and that the conflicts main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social.
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