GENERAL ASSISTANCE AND Norteamericanos RAIDS IN LATIN AMERICA. PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK OF 
Long live Mexico! The Autonomous University Mexico City (UACM), one of the newest creations of this universe that develops academic explosive in Mexico, just published at the end of last year, The Norteamericanos CHRONOLOGY OF ASSISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA, a book that made history in 1991 when my good friend Gregory Sels and published it back now in the inaugural issue of the Centre of Memory of Gregory Sels that this young university created within a file dedicated to his memory, which is part of a center dedicated to this huge Latin American cultural production that Brazil known from the top of the arrogant ignorance of an intelligentsia that has its eyes on the States United States and Europe.
These intellectuals generally unaware of the violence of the North American and European presence in Latin America and indeed around the world. Gregory Sels is part of a school of thought, research and analysis which occupies a leading position in international journalism. Of recent years, would recommend the book of my friends Moniz Bandeira on North American empire and James D. Cockcroft about the history and U.S. policy in Latin America. Both translated into English and published recently in Cuba. Likewise, my friends Atilio Boron y Andrea Vlahusic made an interesting update Gregorio Selser two dice.
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Selser, the memoirist
Year 3. Issue No. 141. Sunday January 30, 2011
By Jorge Boccanera
With the emergence of the monumental work of Gregorio Selser, Chronology of American foreign intervention, as a trigger, Jorge Boccanera gets into the life of one of the best investigative journalists
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ever admitted that he would have liked to be a poet or a conductor, but his obsession was developed just on the back of those spaces where the imagination coexist with areas of ambiguity and enigma. For Gregorio Selser, born in Buenos Aires in 1922 and died in Mexico in 1991, developed a task based on revealing the hidden, show the reverse of the frame giving way to an exhaustive investigation that places him as a pioneer of journalism history.
The recent publication in Mexico in four volumes and a guide to his monumental work Chronology of American foreign intervention, edited by the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) makes circular unofficial history of the region for nearly three centuries, 1776-1991. This work took the author thirty years of work and is an invaluable source of reference, was updated in the light of social debate. To uncover the secret plot that underlies the political scaffolding of the American continent from a range of pressures that have gone from verbal harassment to direct the work of Selser has points of contact with the revelations of Wikileaks that laid bare the folds of the American government. The linguist Noam Chomsky, who knew the work of Argentine journalist, calling him a "person exceptional "- argues that" current Wikileaks leaks are interesting primarily as clear to us about how the diplomatic service, "a double discourse that reveals" the deep hatred of democracy by our political leaders "and intricacies of diplomacy aimed at supporting the interests of large corporations.
Irene, one of the three daughters of Selser-all working journalists, "says that this contact point is" a informaciónviva, involving the main characters and themes of world politics today, First United States and its diplomatic allies, commercial and military. My father would be like a fish in water, searching until the last line of Wikileaks leaks, and is preparing a book on what has come to light so far. "
In his encyclopedic work, carried out without the means of information that the online journalists working today, integrated into the chronology Selser ... passages from his previous books, among them: The Guatemalazo, Little Army Loco, Nicaragua, Walter Somoza, The Rape of Panama, Reagan, the Falklands El Salvador and Honduras, Republic rented.
must say that this timeline ... in a proper issue poignant illustration on the cover of Ecuadorian painter Guayasamin, includes a DVD that allows interactive searching of content, plus an appendix that serves as a guide for use and have other texts on the subject, including one of the Selser dating from 1990. There, in summarizing the project with a view to possible release, he wrote: "With abundant bibliographical support ... include ... a thorough and timely description, following a strict chronological order, of various events and situations that marked the processes interventionist U.S. hemisphere since early last century to the present. " Specifies that will address "It is not only free and official armed interventions, but also those" political, diplomatic and economic in a range of expressions expansionist, imperialist, hegemonic and neo-colonialist. "
While this sense investigates the behavior of countries like England (removing Malvinas), France and Spain, his work is mostly focused on U.S. policy, a country which, he says, happened in the beginning of an extension of 160 thousand square kilometers have now nearly 9 million 500 thousand square kilometers. Between the two figures half an official speech, at times undisguised and threatening and others in an alleged search for harmony, and always relying on "ethical-moral grounds and / or religious groups" that will set out to fashion a rhetoric over the years as Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine, dollar diplomacy, etc.
lays bare, in short, the fabric of political and economic interests-often associated with both, "the thin fabric manipulation, spying and covert operations underlying each maneuver United States, eager expansionist not hesitate to move from Intrusion economic blockade and covert action to the invasion.
De La Prensa Sandino. Selser journalism career has among its antecedents, the entrance to the newspaper La Prensa in 1955, located in the Public Works and Services section so you do not write policy. In an interview with his daughter Claudia in 1989, said: "Until the last day I worked there in 1975, that was my section, covering train accidents and stuff." Socialist Party, the Uruguayan weekly Marcha correspondent and reporter for news agency Prensa Latina (Special Services Section, headed by Rodolfo Walsh) and then IPS, she said, referring to his powerful memory, "at age nine was a kind of monster my ability to hold the difficult words. He spoke in a language that did not correspond to my age ... And at 15 I had my own library. " This is in parallel with self-taught and work to be done in his youth, including street sweeper.
questioned on the profiles of his father, Irene Selser added to a journalist, essayist, historian and professor, the "humanist": "It was an extraordinarily modest, simple, never humiliated with his knowledge, always surrounded by young students trying to raise awareness from the argument and historical fact. His books are tools for building Latin American identity. "
A Gregorio I met him in 1976 in Panama, during a meeting of Latin American intellectuals convened by General Omar Torrijos, protesting the dictatorship of the continent. We met in Mexico and friendship widened, on my part, was mounted in admiration for his tireless work and his keen analysis. It was in Mexico where he worked in the Chronology ..., published several books and wrote numerous articles published, inter alia, in The Day, Processing and El Financiero. After the return of democracy in Argentina, I asked for a note on Haiti for Crisis magazine and subsequently on drug trafficking in Bolivia published in the journal Contributions in Costa Rica. Perhaps this text, published in 1991, has been one of his last notes. Irene
stresses between the titles of his father, the central place occupied by his first book Sandino, general of free men "contributed, without my father even imagine, as a historical documentary base in 1961, too young Carlos Fonseca Amador intellectual founded the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN), which 18 years later took power in Nicaragua. "
and leaves no doubt of the foundational role of issues such as Guatemala and Sandino: "It was the starting point. When he was asked to explain how not to travel to Nicaragua (it did in 1980) had found Sandino, explained that he found the mythical character while investigating the coup of the CIA against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. The first news he had of Sandino, had, had been a cut in the newspaper. His life is forever linked to the fate of the Nicaraguans, who always have rescued Sandino thanked for their own history. "
Selser file. The publication of this chronology of foreign interventions in America, more than 2,500 pages, was in charge of the Academic Center of Memory of the UACM Americas. The four volumes have a time frame specific -1776-1848, 1849-1898, 1899-1945 and 1946-1990 - each preceded by a prologue by the same researchers Selser and Toussaint Ribot, Andrew Kozel and Pilar Calveiro, respectively. Ana María Sacristán
responsible Camena editorial notes that the chronology ... is the first title in the Library File Selser, who also works at the Centre, which concentrates the many bibliographic records selected, sorted and saved through the years Selser and his wife Marta Ventura. He adds that this work "one of a kind", representative of the methodical work of the Argentine, weaves "a overview of networks and relationships that extend in time and space "to offer" the opportunity to understand the logic and identity consolidation in Latin America. "
"A full-time reporter feverish"
Year 3. Issue No. 141. Sunday January 30, 2011
By Jorge Boccanera
Irene Selser, international director of mexicanoMilenio daily, linking the human and professional level of his father. He
Gregory spoke of "a feverish writer" ...
"It was, yes, a feverish writer, a writer" feverish full time. " One image that stuck with me is a holiday, we were playing with my sister Claudia to the edge of a lake while he sat in front of us, typed on a table.
- What legacy left him as a person and a journalist?
"His legacy is vast: the love, support, respect their way of being so caring, its work discipline, the sensitivity of poor children, orphans and Jews in the early twentieth century in Argentina. And his tenderness and his aversion to ignorance. A great guy!
"You saw the depth of this Chronology armed ...
" It's the culmination of a life dedicated to understanding the history of Latin America. From the '60s until his death, took the trouble to make a record of relevant data that was on that day.
- Do you think that Gregory came forward to address political issues such as the drug cartels?
"Yes. Now going to reprint cocadólaresreferido The coup of the coup in Bolivia that marks the arrival in that country of the posters, imbricated in power. Almost 30 years later breaks out of the drug crisis in the region, but the origins are there. Neither could understand today the movement of U.S. Tea Party, if we go back to the dual administration of Ronald Reagan, which marks the onset of neoliberalism in the world and its political expression, neo-conservative revolution in America.
