A Dialogue of the Deaf: The United States and Latin America

“The trouble is, you Americans always want to castrate us,” said the Mexican nationalist who wore American shoes. “Take Cuba: its assertion of national sovereignty is like kicking you in the balls; our sovereignty is as important as our virility; after all, national sovereignty is national sex; you’d like to make a state out of Cuba—castrate the country, just the way you castrated Puerto Rico.”

The psychosexual theory of international relations probably ...