Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Monroe Doctrine to the Second World War 3. The Cold War: The Guatemalan Coup and the Cuban Revolution 4. The Alliance for Progress 5. The Military Governments of the 1970s 6. Reagan and the Central American Tragedy 7. The End of the Cold War, 1989 - 2001 8. George W. Bush and the War on Terror 9. Why US Drugs Policy Doesn't Work 10. The Economy - Money, Multinationals and Misery 11. Culture: Coca-cola, Cartoons and Caricature Postscript Appendix Notes Index
Reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochet's coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador. This book shows how George W Bush's administration used the War on Terror as a pretext for intervention.
Grace Livingstone is a journalist specialising in Latin American affairs. She was a reporter for The Guardian in Venezuela and has also worked for the BBC World Service and written for The Observer, The New Statesman and The Tablet. She is the author of Inside Democracy: Drugs Democracy and War (Latin America Bureau, 2003).
The US in Latin America - good neighbour or big bad wolf? Grace
Livingstone sets aside the pious euphemisms of a past age and shows
it has been much more the latter than the former. She also shows
how US hegemony is draining away as the republics start forging
their own destiny at last.
*Hugh O'Shaughnessy, author of Pinochet: The Politics of
Torture*
Packed with telling information and written with both verve and
attention to detail, this book addresses the key issues in a
perennially uneven and generally unjust relationship. Readers
coming to the theme for the first time will benefit from a lucid
synthesis of the voluminous literature in the field, whilst those
more familiar with Pan-American affairs will find much useful
material and discussion on developments in recent years.
*James Dunkerley, University of London*
A useful and timely account of US strategy towards Latin America
over the past half century, revealing its intrinsic weaknesses and
the profound ignorance and prejudice of US policymakers. Grace
Livingstone’s book covers wide ground in an original and compelling
narrative.
*Richard Gott, author of Cuba: A New History.*
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