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Inevitable revolutions : the United States in Central America /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c1993.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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- Introduction: an overview of the system. Guatemala ; Honduras ; El Salvador ; Nicaragua ; Costa Rica ; The revolutions of the 1970s and 1770s ; Neodependency: the U.S. system
- Setting up the system. The irrelevant revolution ; The misshaping of Central America ; The Yankee's appearance ; Blaine: paying the price of stability ; T.R. and Taft: justifying intervention ; Double standards: the United States destroys a court ; Determining who rules at home: Honduras ; Determining who rules at home: Nicaragua ; Wilson's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine ; The power of non-recognition: Costa Rica and the oil companies ; Tinkering with the system: the 1920s ; Creating the new Nicaragua ; Adapting the good neighbor to El Salvador ; The Fascist threat: Guatemala ; Conclusion: the good neighbor
- Maintaining the system. Double-locking the system ; An omen: the clash at Bogota ; The start of the thirty-one years war: Figueres v. Somoza ; Militarizing the good neighbors ; Guatemala: replacing revolution with militarism ; Nixon and the wobbling of the system (1954-59) ; The turn in the Cold War and the Eisenhower response; or, Condemning the Alliance for Progress
- Updating the system. The Alliance for Progress and revolution: Kennedy ; The Alliance for Progress and revolution: Johnson ; Nicaragua: the Alliance and the origins of the Sandinistas ; Guatemala: "5,000 little dictators," and revolutionaries ; El Salvador: the Alliance's proud "model" ; Honduras: the transformation of a banana republic ; Costa Rica: degradation of a democracy ; The Central American common market: a last chance ; Conclusion: fall of the Alliance and the rise of "romantic revolutionaries"
- The collapse of the system. Nixon and Rockefeller: using the military to avoid 1776 ; Triple threat: the crises of 1973 and 1974 ; Testing the system: the banana war ; The Carter approach ; Outside alternatives: Mexico and Venezuela ; Internal alternative: bases for Christ and other revolutionaries ; Nicaragua: the system overthrown ; El Salvador: oligarchs fall, colonels rise, revolution spreads ; Guatemala: turning a country into a cemetery ; Honduras: main girder in the bridge ; Costa Rica: from democracy to debtor ; Conclusion: the turning point
- The remains of the system. Assumptions: Reagan and the militarization of policy ; Assumptions: Kirkpatrick and the "authoritarians" ; Assumptions: "Domination by force eliminates a lot of ticklish problems of cultural understanding" ; Assumptions: Unilateralism, or the Monroe Doctrine ; Assumptions: Novak and Reaganomics for Latin Americans ; The 1983-84 crisis: (I) We must "persuade the American people the Communists are out to get us" ; (II) The outside threats ; (III) The inside threats ; (IV) Unwanted third parties, Congress and Contadora ; (V) Reagan, the C.I.A., and the origins of the Iran-Contra scandal ; Nicaragua: "the epidemiology of aggression" ; Honduras: refitting the aircraft carrier ; El Salvador: "plumping for savagery" ; Costa Rica: Hobson's choice ; Guatemala: "totally dedicated to democracy" ; Conclusion: beyond neodependence
- Rearranging the remains of the system. 1985-86: trying to create consensus ; The USS Honduras to the rescue ; Iran-Contra: "General Custer in diplomatic drag" ; The beginning of the end: Costa Rica and the Arias peace plan ; The Bush years: coming to terms with a rearranged system ; Nicaragua's February surprise of 1990 ; El Salvador: expanding the killing fields ; Guatemala: "They're poor her..., they'll be better off in heaven" ; Conclusion.