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Noam Chomsky, MIT
“Streeter’s contribution to the otherwise scant literature on the U.S.-Guatemala relations during this period is rich in detail and vital in providing a deeper understanding of Guatemalan history, Eisenhower’s foreign policy, and U.S. intervention in Latin America.”
Report on Guatemala
“Because of the outstanding writing, the quality of the topic, and the extensiveness of the research, Managing the Counterrevolution makes an important contribution to the field and marks the emergence of an outstanding new historian.”
W. Michael Weis, Illinois Wesleyan University
The Eisenhower administration’s intervention in Guatemala is one of the most closely studied covert operations in the history of the Cold War. Yet we know far more about the 1954 coup itself than its aftermath. This book uses the concept of “counterrevolution” to trace the Eisenhower administration’s efforts to restore U.S. hegemony in a nation whose reform governments had antagonized U.S. economic interests and the local elite.
Comparing the Guatemalan case to U.S.-sponsored counterrevolutions in Iran, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Chile reveals that Washington’s efforts to roll back “communism” in Latin America and elsewhere during the Cold War represented in reality a short-term strategy to protect core American interests from the rising tide of Third World nationalism.
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Research in International Studies, Latin America Series, № 34
Paperback
978-0-89680-215-5
Retail price: $36.95,
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Release date: February 2001
368 pages
Rights: World
Electronic
978-0-89680-421-0
Release date: February 2001
368 pages
Rights: World
Voices from the Silence
Guatemalan Literature of Resistance
Edited by Marc Zimmerman and Raúl Rojas
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Translation by Marc Zimmerman
The conquest, colonization, independence, the liberal reforms, the regimes, revolution, and dictatorships, the insurrections and ongoing peace dialogues all are combined in a narrative projecting the most important forces in Guatemalan history from the Mayan period to our own times.Using
Latin American Literature · Guatemala · Latin American Studies · Literature
Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984
By Ariel Armony
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Foreword by Thomas W. Walker
Ariel Armony focuses, in this study, on the role played by Argentina in the anti–Communist crusade in Central America. This systematic examination of Argentina’s involvement in the Central American drama of the late 1970s and early 1980s fine–tunes our knowledge of a major episode of the Cold War era.Basing his study on exhaustive research in the United States, Argentina, and Nicaragua, Armony adroitly demolishes several key assumptions that have shaped the work of scholars in U.S.
Latin American History · World and Comparative History · American History · Central America · Argentina · Latin American Studies
The Cuban Counterrevolution
By Jesús Arboleya
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Translation by Rafael Betancourt
For forty years the Cuban Revolution has been at the forefront of American public opinion, yet few are knowledgeable about the history of its enemies and the responsibility of the U.S. government in organizing and sustaining the Cuban counterrevolution.
Latin American History · History | Modern | 20th Century · Cuba · Latin American Studies
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