The Wine Is Bitter Author:Milton S. Eisenhower "The history of relationships among the Americas is replete with shocking mistakes by the United States, and with equal reprehensible actions by Latin-American nations against each other and against us. United States intervention in one country after another; Castro's betrayal of humanity; Panama's offensive attack on United States property and... more » desecration of the United States flag in 1959; indignities heaped upon Vice President and Mrs. Nixon in Venezuela in 1958; the unanswered cries of the suppressed people of Latin America for food, health, and opportunity; the failure of most Latin-American republics to realize their potential--in all of these, all American republics must find reason for shame. But the imperative of our time is to cast aside the lingering effects of history, to cease fruitless indulgence in self-pity and scapegoating. The time has come--indeed, it has already passed--when the American nations must unite in one of history's rare adventures in unity and unselfishness."« less