Im glad you asked!
The book details (heavily sourced) many of the CIA- backed coups in Latin America the past decades. Pundits like nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9sprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsvu9n0z at the HRF
seem to serve a similar purpose as a weapon under the guise of "foreign aid" just as USAID and the NED have historically been.
And if you read the book, youll notice Gladstein uses alllll the same language and propaganda methods that have always been used to justify covert regime change.
And its not even so covert anymore. At all. Maybe he really IS naive and dumb enough to believe what he says. But I dont believe it