America's backyard
Subtitle: the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror
By: Grace Livingstone.
Publisher: Zed Books; Latin America Bureau; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781848132139; 9781848132146
Subjects: Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America; Latin America -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Latin America -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Description: The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America's Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Monroe Doctrine to the Second World War; title: The Cold War : the Guatemalan coup and the Cuban Revolution; title: The Alliance for Progress; title: The military governments of the 1970s; title: Reagan and the Central American tragedy; title: The end of the Cold War, 1989-2001; title: George W. Bush and the 'War on Terror'; title: Why US drugs policy doesn't work; title: Money, multinationals and misery; title: Coca-Cola, cartoons and caricature; title: Postscript; title: Appendix A: US military interventions in Latin America in the twentieth century; title: Appendix B: Latin American dictators who took training courses at the School of the Americas.