Fidel Castro's oust of the Batista dictatorship drew world interest on problems in Latin America and the forces in conflict there.5 Latin American writers had long been in the shadow of Anglo-European writers, partially because of the language barrier. ... The workers are slaughter and "become cut off all around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machine guns."8 This also demonstrates another common theme in the "Boom" literature: the good guy rarely wins. ...

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desire to "create some permanent apparatus to deal with the refugee problem," but they, "envisioned no plan of official assistance to refugees."5 Taylor expressed this policy in his opening speech at Evian in saying that the U.S. ... The organized mass slaughter began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, this was accomplished through the use of mobile extermination units that followed behind the advancing Nazi army11. ... In November 1943, the Gillette-Rogers resolution was introduced in the Senate and in the House. The resolution called for "the creation by the ...

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