The CIA in Ecuador - Couverture souple

Becker, Marc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478011386 ISBN 13 : 9781478011385

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In The CIA in Ecuador Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s. Emphasizing the competing roles of the domestic ruling class and grassroots social movements, Becker details the struggles and difficulties that activists, organizers, and political parties confronted. He shows how leftist groups, including the Communist Party of Ecuador, navigated disagreements over tactics and ideology, and how these influenced shifting strategies in support of rural Indigenous communities and urban labor movements. He outlines the CIA's failure to understand that the Ecuadorian left was rooted in local social struggles rather than bankrolled by the Soviet Union. By decentering US-Soviet power struggles, Becker shows that the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin America during the cold war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marc Becker is Professor of History at Truman State University and the author and editor of several books, including The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files and Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements, both also published by Duke University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478011386
• ISBN 13: 9781478011385
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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