MANAGING COUNTERREVOLUTION by Stephen M. Streeter ( 9780896802155 )

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MANAGING COUNTERREVOLUTION
THE UNITED STATES AND GUATEMALA, 1954-1961

By:

Stephen M. Streeter

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Publisher:

OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 October, 2000

Series:

Ohio RIS Latin America Series 34

Pages:

399

Description:

A study of the Eisenhower administration's intervention in Guatemala. It uses the concept of "counterrevolution" to trace the administration's efforts to restore US hegemony in a nation whose reform governments had antagonized US economic interests and the local elite.

Synopsis:

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.

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notes, bibliography, index

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Ohio University Monographs in International Studies

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