A tale of adventure and intrigue, The Caribbean Legion studies
the political struggles of the peoples of Costa Rica, Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua in the years
following World War II. Taking their inspiration from the
D-day-style invasions of occupied Europe, groups of political
exiles organized a series of armed expeditions that kept the
Caribbean in turmoil for five years. Although their actions were
independent, the groups became known collectively as the
''Caribbean Legion.''
Charles D. Ameringer examines the myth and reality of the
Caribbean Legion, as well as the evolving foreign policy of the
United States. Faced with the contradiction between the promotion
of representative democracy and the principle of nonintervention,
the United States tolerated dictatorship in the postwar Caribbean,
which eventually led to serious consequences such as the Cuban
Revolution.
Ameringer utilizes never-before-consulted documents from 1949
and 1950 on ''the situation in the Caribbean'' from the
Inter-American Peace Committee of the Organization of American
States. Accordingly, The Caribbean Legion presents new information
and documentation on the difficulties, complexities, and costs of
organizing armed uprisings from exile, the purposes and actions of
pro-democratic Caribbean exiles and their allies and sponsors, and
US policy toward Latin America in the early Cold War period.
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