Pretext - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pretext write by James Trapani. This book was released on 2020-08-01. Pretext available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The spectre of 'Communism' was used to justify the expansion of American global leadership throughout the twentieth century. Nowhere was this more evident than in their 'backyard' of Latin America. The fear and hysteria created by the perceived communist menace justified the demonization of democratic reformers, the mischaracterization of political unrest, the overthrow of democratic regimes, the prolonged support of military dictatorships and the continued political and economic subservience of much of Latin America to the USA throughout the era of the Cold War and beyond. 'Pretext: Anti-Communism in Latin America' examines the origins of this hysteria from 1930-1965. It suggests that the academic focus on the rise and fall of communism has distracted analysis from the non-communist reformers who fought for democracy, social justice, and independent economic development. This timely reinterpretation of the origins of the Cold War in Latin America seeks to explain the continuing power imbalance between the US and the Latin American republics.
Neither Peace nor Freedom
Neither Peace nor Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neither Peace nor Freedom write by Patrick Iber. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Neither Peace nor Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for Cultural Freedom, and, after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the homegrown Casa de las Américas. Neither Peace nor Freedom delves into the entwined histories of these organizations and the aspirations and dilemmas of intellectuals who participated in them, from Diego Rivera and Pablo Neruda to Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Patrick Iber corrects the view that such individuals were merely pawns of the competing superpowers. Movements for democracy and social justice sprung up among pro-Communist and anti-Communist factions, and Casa de las Américas promoted a brand of revolutionary nationalism that was beholden to neither the Soviet Union nor the United States. But ultimately, intellectuals from Latin America could not break free from the Cold War’s rigid binaries. With the Soviet Union demanding fealty from Latin American communists, the United States zealously supporting their repression, and Fidel Castro pushing for regional armed revolution, advocates of social democracy found little room to promote their ideals without compromising them. Cold War politics had offered utopian dreams, but intellectuals could get neither the peace nor the freedom they sought.
Anti-Kommunism in Latin America
Anti-Kommunism in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anti-Kommunism in Latin America write by Juan José Arévalo. This book was released on 1963. Anti-Kommunism in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Eisenhower and Latin America
Eisenhower and Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eisenhower and Latin America write by Stephen G. Rabe. This book was released on 1988. Eisenhower and Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent "Eisenhower revisionism." During his first term, Eisenhower paid little attention to Latin America but his objective there was clear: to prevent communism from gaining a foothold. The Eisenhower administration was prepared to cooperate with authoritarian military regimes, but not to fund developmental aid or vigorously promote political democracy. Two events in the second administration convinced Eisenhower that he had underestimated the extent of popular unrest_and thus the potential for Communist inroads: the stoning of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Caracas and the radicalization of the Cuban Revolution. He then began to support trade agreements, soft loans, and more strident measures that led to CIA involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion and plots to assassinate Fidel Castro and Rafael Trujillo. In portraying Eisenhower as a virulent anti-Communist and cold warrior, Rabe challenges the Eisenhower revisionists who view the president as a model of diplomatic restraint.
Pretext: Anti-Communism in Latin America
Pretext: Anti-Communism in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pretext: Anti-Communism in Latin America write by James Trapani. This book was released on 2020-08. Pretext: Anti-Communism in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The spectre of 'Communism' was used to justify the expansion of American global leadership throughout the twentieth century. This timely reinterpretation of the origins of the Cold War in Latin America seeks to explain the continuing power imbalance between the US and the Latin American republics.
