Article how US social scientists came up with the concept of ‘machismo’ during the Cold War to sum up and explain negative aspects of Latin Americans and contrast it with Anglo-Americans and blame machismo for communist sympathies. New York Times argued that the Cuban Revolution’s gender equality policies belied machismo…‘after all the machista spirit creates revolutionaries.’ Academics saw machismo as a source of revolutions and communists. ‘The Washington Post, in turn, quoted a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee report that defined “the ‘machismo’ complex . . . as excessive preoccupation with establishing masculinity,” which inhibited birth control methods promoted by the United States. Such inhibition, the report and the article intimated, would further predispose the region to “domination from Moscow, Havana, or Peking.” Indeed,  the Post subtitle made this connection in no uncertain terms: “Senate Unit Warns on Red Influence.” daily.jstor.org/inventing-ma…