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Grace Livingstone

America's Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror

Buch

Using newly-declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the U.S. role in the darkest periods of Latin American history including Pinochet's coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador. She shows how the U.S. administration used the War on Terror as a new pretext for intervention and how it tried to destabilize leftwing governments and push back the 'pink tide' washing across the Americas. America's Backyard also has chapters on drugs, economy and culture. It explains why U.S. drug policy has caused widespread environmental damage, yet failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and looks at the U.S. economi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84813-213-9
  • EAN: 9781848132139
  • Produktnummer: 4423662
  • Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 270 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.3 cm 544 g
  • Gewicht: 544

Über den Autor


Grace Livingstone is a journalist specialising in Latin American affairs. She was a reporter for The Guardian in Venezuela and has also worked for the BBC World Service and written for The Observer, The New Statesman and The Tablet. She is the author of Inside Democracy: Drugs Democracy and War (Latin America Bureau, 2003).

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