GRITtv: Nov. 24, 2009

It's not only wars that produce blowback for the US; training and funding for right-leaning groups in Latin America has been a long-standing source of resentment and anger around the world. We look back at the effects of US intervention in Latin America and connect the patterns to the current situations in Afghanistan and Iraq with Christian Parenti, Nation contributor and author of "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror," Rev. Luis Barrios, chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies at John Jay College in New York.