Creating a Third World: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era

The author sees a parallel with Benedict Anderson's conception of "imagined communities" according to which in this instance "the convenient yet spurious nature of the Mexican-Cuban 'special friendship'" took shape by promulgating an "anti-imperialist, revolutionary rhetoric of mutual affiliation throughout a history of 'resistance' to 'oppression.'" (pp. 15-16). White has written an illuminating work while employing appropriate conceptual apparatus based on archival materials and other materials available to him in Mexico City, Havana, and Washington, D.C. His work effectively reveals a regional subset of international relations within the larger Cold War context.