1. For illustrative purposes, a critical reflection regarding said North American contradiction can be found in Josep Fontana Lázaro, Por el bien del Imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945, Barcelona: Pasado y Presente, 2011, pp. 9–24.
2. Scott Lucas, Freedom’s War: The U.S. Crusade Against the Soviet Union, 1945–1956, New York: New York University Press, 1999.
3. David F. Schmitz, Thank God They’re On Our Side. The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921–1965, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999
4. and The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965–1989, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
5. Several perspectives regarding that extension of the field of study can be found in Gilbert M. Joseph, “Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations,” and Emily S. Rosenberg, “Turning to Culture,” in Close Encounters of Empire. Writing the Cultural History of U.S.—Latin American Relations, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998, pp. 3–46 and 497–514;