Fbi in Latin America - The Ecuador Files

Marc Becker is Professor of History at Truman State University and the author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements, also published by Duke University Press, Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions, and Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador.

List of contents

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Abbreviations  xi
Introduction. FBI  1
1. SIS  17
2. Communism  53
3. Labor  95
4. La Gloriosa  125
5. Constitution  157
6. Coup  193
7. Departures  223
Conclusion. Cold War  249
Notes   259
Bibliography   299
Index  311

About the author

Marc Becker is Professor of History at Truman State University and the author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements, also published by Duke University Press, Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions, and Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador.

Summary

The largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.’s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Becker
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780822369592
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6959-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous