Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as
president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary
triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet
celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon
administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government
while Chilean opposition forces mobilised against him. The result
was a battle for Chile that ended in 1973 with a right-wing
military coup and a brutal dictatorship lasting nearly twenty
years. Tanya Harmer argues that this battle was part of a dynamic
inter-American Cold War struggle to determine Latin America's
future, shaped more by the contest between Cuba, Chile, the United
States, and Brazil than by a conflict between Moscow and
Washington. Drawing on firsthand interviews and recently
declassified documents from archives in North America, Europe, and
South America--including Chile's Foreign Ministry Archive--Harmer
provides the most comprehensive account to date of Cuban
involvement in Latin America in the early 1970s, Chilean foreign
relations during Allende's presidency, Brazil's support for
counterrevolution in the Southern Cone, and the Nixon
administration's Latin American policies. The Cold War in the
Americas, Harmer reveals, is best understood as a multidimensional
struggle, involving peoples and ideas from across the hemisphere.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
The New Cold War History |
| Release date: |
February 2014 |
| First published: |
February 2014 |
| Authors: |
Tanya Harmer
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
400 |
| Edition: |
New edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4696-1390-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
American history >
General
Books >
History >
American history >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-4696-1390-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781469613901 |
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