Describe the reasons for what UCLA historian Bradford Burns called the "revolutionary option" for Latin America? From the textbook and One Day of Life, class discussions, and the CNN video segment "Latin America" (from its series The Cold War), what has been the role of the United States in Latin America after World War II and continuing through the 1990s? How did efforts to "contain" the spread of communism by the U.S. affect the developing nations of Latin America? What was the role of U.S. corporations in Central America? What kinds of opposition formed against U.S. corporate and national interests in Latin America?