1. André Gunder Frank,Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967: 1948–49.
2. Benjamin Higgins,Economic Development: Problems, Principles and Policies, rev. ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1968:492.
3. Cárdenas is said to have proposed to Roosevelt an inter-American economic boycott against aggressors. Karl M. Schmitt,Mexico and the United States,1821–1973: Conflict and Coexistence, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1974:182. Mexican labour gave its support for the war effort as well; as Vicente Lombardo Toledano, head of the Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos, has remarked: “Tenemos antagonismos con el imperialismo norteamericano; pero en este momento el peligro mayor no es el imperialismo Yanqui, sino el imperialismo nazi, es el más peligroso de todos; contra ese peligro mayor, asociándonos con nuestros adversarios históricos y tradicionales, vamos a luchar.” Lombardo Toledano in James W. Wilkie and Edna Monzón de Wilkie,México visto en el siglo XX: entrevistas de historia oral, (Mexico: Instituto Mexicano de Investigaciones Económicas, 1969:356.