Author: Ronald M. SchneiderPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Communism in Guatemala, 1944-1954
Author: Ronald M. SchneiderPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Managing the Counterrevolution
Author: Stephen M. StreeterPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896802159
Category : Counterrevolutionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Eisenhower administration's intervention in Guatemala is one of the most closely studied covert operations in the history of the Cold War. Yet we know far more about the 1954 coup itself than its aftermath. This book uses the concept of "counterrevolution" to trace the Eisenhower administration's efforts to restore U.S. hegemony in a nation whose reform governments had antagonized U.S. economic interests and the local elite. Comparing the Guatemalan case to U.S.-sponsored counterrevolutions in Iran, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Chile reveals that Washington's efforts to roll back "communism" in Latin America and elsewhere during the Cold War represented in reality a short-term strategy to protect core American interests from the rising tide of Third World nationalism.
The CIA in Guatemala
Author: Richard H. ImmermanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788673
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A history and analysis of the United States’ involvement in the deposition of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and the consequences. Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States’ clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today. “A valuable study of what Immerman correctly portrays as a seminal event, not just in the annals of the Cold War, but in U.S.–Latin American relations.” —Washington Monthly “A damning indictment of American interference abroad.” —Pittsburgh Press “A masterpiece of analysis.” —Reviews in American History
Shattered Hope
Author: Piero GleijesesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400843499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal
Penetration of the Political Institutions of Guatemala by the International Communist Movement
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Intervention of International Communism in Guatemala
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Bitter Fruit
Author: Stephen SchlesingerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674260074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
Communism Versus Progress in Guatemala
Author: Theodore GeigerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Case History of Communist Penetration: Guatemala
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of Public ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Author: Ronald M. Scneider