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Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua - 1953-1961 (Hardcover, New)
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Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua - 1953-1961 (Hardcover, New)
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During the Cold War era, the United States faced the prospect of
expanding its power in Central America. But we
miscalculated--grievously. After 1945, Central America teemed with
leaders willing to alter the region's quasi-colonial status. Some,
like Fidel Castro, sought out revolution to shatter the status quo.
Others, like Anastasio Somoza Garcia, attempted to seek out new
directions along more subtle paths. Nicaragua subsequently
challenged American hegemony in a manner at once more deliberate
and more dangerous than any other effort in the hemisphere. The
Somoza regime, unlike its contemporaries, chose to utilize American
institutions and American preferences to subvert the latter's power
rather than reinforce it. American arrogance, combined with a
complacent approach to policy in its global "backyard," offered a
myriad of political, military, and economic opportunities to a
leader willing to take risks. In the years after 1945, Somoza was
thus able to peel away layers of clientage until, at certain
moments, he could act as a partner of his northern neighbor.
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