America's Backyard
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84813-214-6 (ISBN)
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. She shows how George W Bush’s administration used the War on Terror as a new pretext for intervention; how it tried to destabilise leftwing governments and push back the ‘pink tide’ washing across the Americas. America’s Backyard also includes chapters on drugs, economy and culture. It explains why US drug policy has caused widespread environmental damage yet failed to reduce the supply of cocaine, and it looks at the US economic stake in Latin America and the strategies of the big corporations.
Today Latin Americans are demanding respect and an end to the Washington Consensus. Will the White House listen?
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 Colombia: Drugs, Democracy and War (2003).
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.3.2009 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84813-214-X / 184813214X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84813-214-6 / 9781848132146 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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