The Road to Baghdad Passed Through El Salvador. Review of Greg Grandin's <em>Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism</em> (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006)

Abstract

With his most recent book, Empire’s Workshop, Grandin takes a more definitive foray into his new role as public intellectual. Arguing that “the road to Iraq passes through Latin America” (163), Empire’s Workshop maps out a trajectory of U.S.policies in Latin America over the past century, establishing a direct link between U.S.-sponsored regime change and repression in the hemisphere with Bush’s “global war on terror.”