Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XYZ Seiten)
ISBN:
9781478012993
Series Statement:
American encounters/global interactions
Content:
Postwar Left -- CIA -- Coups -- Moscow Gold -- Divisions -- Transitions -- Populism -- Dissension -- Everyday Forms of Organization -- Communist Threats -- Resurgent Left -- 1959.
Content:
"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."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478010357
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Becker, Marc, 1962 - The CIA in Ecuador Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781478010357
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478011385
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Außenpolitik
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USA Central Intelligence Agency
;
Ecuador
;
Geschichte 1947-1960
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USA
;
Ecuador
;
Politik
;
Die Linke
;
Geschichte 1947-1960
;
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1215/9781478012993
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478012993?locatt=mode:legacy
