I le vaitausaga o le 1960 na ia tusia ai le faitau selau o mataupu mo lomiga tetele e faatatau i mataupu e pei o aʻoaʻoga i nuu maotua o Puerto Rico, faafitauli i tagata faigaluega i le matafaga o San Juan, fale gaosi laiti i le taulaga o Aibonito i Puerto Rico, mativa i totonu o Puerto Rico, vaegaʻau i Colombia, atinaʻe o le tamaoaiga i Bolivia, maina i Bolivia, faiga sauā i Nicaragua, le pulega a Duvalier i Haiti, fasiotiga faaupufai i le Dominican Republic, vaegaʻau a le Mao i Peru, vaegaʻau i Venesuela, vaegaʻau i Kuatemala, sootaga a le lotu ma le malo i Cuba a Castro, le taofia o Juan Perón i Rio de Janeiro, ma feeseeseaiga i le va o tagata i Ciudad Juarez. O ia na muamua faailoa mai le matafaioi a le CIA i le fasiotia o le taʻitaʻi o Dominican, o Rafael Trujillo i le 1961, ma o ia foʻi na muamua lipotia faamatalaga auʻiliʻili e faatatau i le fouvalega a le ʻaufaifaatoʻaga i le itu i saute o Peru
. O ana lipoti i mataupu tau i aiā tatau a tagata e aofia ai le "Slaughter in Guatemala" [The New York Review of Books, Me 20, 1971] ma le "Santo Domingo: The Politics of Terror" [The New York Review of Books, Iulai 2, 1971].