All the text in this chapter convey in one way or another the complexity of the American presence in Latin America. The first text, a manifesto composed by the guerrilla leader Augusto Santino in 1927 as he confronted the Marines, the most visible sign of United States hegemony. Moreover the second document, a film called Silent War, suggest that the US can use its position on the cutting edge of all things modern to help Latin America. The document shifts our attention away from the anti-imperial project and towards a more benevolent version of the United States – Latin America relations. While on the other hand, the second film available in this chapter Journey to Banana Land, is a propagandistic film. The United Fruit Company used this film to demonstrate North Americans the positive impact the company had in Guatemala (note that the company was under a lot of pressure because of its vast landholdings). In the film the audience is shown Guatemala´s relative modernity and how banana production benefited everyone there, workers and consumers alike. As Dawson says, the film also represents a powerful source for interrogating a series of other assumptions about class, gender, and ethnicity in both the United States and Guatemala. And finally, the last document From the Noble Savage to the Third World, the author Ariel Dorfman critiques the US imperialism during the 1960s, by arguing how one must comprehend the set of assumptions about the primitive and the modern in order to understand understand American imperial practices. The text describes a nakedly imperialist United States.