Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nixon and Rockefeller: using the military to avoid 1776 ; Triple threat: the crises of 1973 and 1974 ; Testing the system: the banana war ; The Carter approach ; Outside alternatives: Mexico and Venezuela ; Internal alternative: bases for Christ and other revolutionaries ; Nicaragua: the system overthrown ; El Salvador: oligarchs fall, colonels rise, revolution spreads ; Guatemala: turning a country into a cemetery ; Honduras: main girder in the bridge ; Costa Rica: from democracy to debtor ; Conclusion: the turning point -- The remains of the system. …”