Posted in U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged Augusto Pinochet, Carlos Salinas, Carlos Slim Helú, Chicago Boys, Chile, death squads, Dirty Wars, El Mozote, El Salvador, El Salvadoran Civil War, Eliot Abrams, Greg Grandin, Henry Kissenger, Mark Danner, Mexico, Reagan Doctrine, Reaganomics, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Salvador Allende, U.S.-Latin American Relations on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is entry #7 in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
The 70s was a gruesome decade for South America. In 1973 General Augusto Pinochet ousted democratically-elected President Salvador Allende in a U.S.-backed coup d’état in Chile. Coups ended numerous democratic governments in Latin America during this time [...]
Posted in U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged Allen Dulles, American Foreign Policy, Batista, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Carlos Castillo Armas, Che, CIA, CIA Operations, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Dwight D. Eisenhower, El Che, Ernesto Guevara, Fidel Castro, Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, John Foster Dulles, Latin America, PBFORTUNE, PBHISTORY, PBSUCCESS, Platt Amendment, U.S.-Latin American Relations, United Fruit Company, WASHTUB on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is entry #6 in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
As the Koren War came to a close something sinister, something rotten was brewing in Central America. In 1954 the CIA embarked on its first full-scale covert operation: the overthrow of the Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz [...]
Posted in U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged Franklin D. Roosevelt, Good Neighbor Policy, Harry S. Truman, New Deal, Panama, School of the Americas, U.S. military intervention, U.S.-Latin American Relations on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is entry #5 in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
The decade of the 1930s perhaps saw the least amount of U.S. military intervention in foreign countries than any decade since the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth. This is due to [...]
Posted in U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged Brazil, Ford Land, Fordlandia, Greg Grandin, Guatemala, Henry Ford, Honduras, Manuel Bonilla, Sam Zemurray, U.S.-Latin American Relations, United Fruit Company on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is entry #4 in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
About half a century after Walker met his demise in Honduras, a young immigrant from Russia was entering into the fruit industry. Samuel Zemurray first lived in Alabama at the close of the nineteenth century, but at [...]
Posted in U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged American Foreign Policy, American History, Central America, Latin America, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Panama, Panama Canal, Pancho Villa, Platt Amendment, Teddy Roosevelt, U.S.-Latin American Relations, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is entry #3 in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
The remainder of the 19th Century, after the United States’ own civil war, saw a massive increase of U.S. intervention on (and off) the continent. Between 1869 and 1897 the U.S. had sent warships to [...]
Posted in U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged Central America, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Costa Rica, La Paz, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, U.S.-Latin American Relations, William Walker on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is entry #2 in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
U.S. millionaire billionaire (in today’s dollar) and business tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt’s legacy is construed on the back of ferries, ships, and railroads. The Vanderbilt houses that would succeed him would give rise to America’s gilded age. But [...]
Posted in U.S.-Latin American Relations, tagged American Foreign Policy, Empire's Workshop, Greg Grandin, James Monroe, Latin America, Manifest Destiny, Mexican Cession, Mexico, Monroe Doctrine, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, U.S.-Latin American Relations, United States on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Due to one of my more recent posts, it has been brought to my attention that one area in which I am passionate about is Latin America. I want to make it my personal goal to work hard in being a participator in bringing to a realization of more just societies in our hemisphere. This [...]
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