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Category Archives: The Cold War in Latin America
The Cold War in Central America – To What Extent Was the US Responsible?
I was on the Burt Cohen Show yesterday, discussing the nature of the Cold War in Central America, the annulment of the Rios Montt trial, human rights and justice for ex-dictators, and the complex roles of the US in Latin … Continue reading
History vs. Fiction? Gael vs. Chile? Memory Struggles over the Film “No”
As an historian, I’m never all that surprised when fictional films don’t live up to historical reality. So I wasn’t shocked when the film No, which tells a story about the media side of the No campaign in the 1988 … Continue reading
Posted in Augusto Pinochet, Chile, Coups in Latin America, Human Rights Issues, Latin American Cultures, Memory Struggles, Military Dictatorships, Social Movements, South America, The "Left" in Latin America, The Cold War in Latin America
Tagged Augusto Pinochet, Chile, films, Human Rights Issues, Memory, social movements
On This Date in Latin America – July 14, 1969: The El Salvador-Honduras War (A.K.A., the “Football War”) Begins
Forty-three years ago today, El Salvador and Honduras began a war that lasted 100 hours and would come to be known as the “Football War.” Although the war’s name comes from the nationalist conflicts between the two countries as embodied on … Continue reading
Around Latin America
-The latest polls suggest that on Sunday, barring some extreme occurrence, Enrique Peña Nieto will indeed become the next president of Mexico, marking the return of the PRI to power 12 years after Vicente Fox broke the party’s 70+ year … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Argentina's Military Dictatorship (1976-1983), Around Latin America, Augusto Pinochet, Bolivia, Brazil, Brazil's Military Dictatorship, Catholicism in the Americas, Chile, Development in Latin America, Drugs and the Drug Trade in the Americas, Ecuador, Education in the Americas, Educational Reforms, Haiti, Honduras, Human Rights Violations, Indigenous Peoples, Labor in Latin America, Latin American Economic Relations, Latin American Foreign Relations, Latin American-U.S. Relations, Legal Issues in Latin America, Memory Struggles, Mexico, Police in the Americas, Protests in Latin America, São Paulo, South America, Strikes, Student Movements, The "Disappeared", The Amazon, The Cold War in Latin America, Torture, United States
On Human Rights, Memory, and Finding a Disappeared Prime Minister in Grenada
The 1983 US invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada has to be considered one of the most quixotic examples of imperialism and global politics during the Cold War. While the invasion was brief, hundreds were wounded or killed … Continue reading
On the United Fruit Company in Central America (and Terrible Book Reviews)
Non-fiction writer Rich Cohen has a new book coming out on Samuel Zemurray, the man who made the United Fruit Company, the previous incarnation of what we today call Chiquita. Under Zemurray’s watch, United Fruit, or “UFCO,” wound up supporting … Continue reading
On Human Rights Violations and Memory Struggles in Peru
The New York Times recently ran an excellent story discussing the challenges facing Peruvian society, culture, and politics as the country continues to try to confront the past of a civil war that tore the world’s 20th-largest country apart in the … Continue reading
Posted in Alberto Fujimori, Alfredo Stroessner, Argentina, Argentina's Military Dictatorship (1976-1983), Augusto Pinochet, Brazil, Brazil's Military Dictatorship, Chile, Civil Conflict in the Americas, Colombia, Drugs and the Drug Trade in the Americas, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionárias de Colombia (FARC), Guerrilla Movements in Latin America, Human Rights Issues, Human Rights Violations, Impunity, Memory Struggles, Military Dictatorships, Multinational Corporations in the Americas, Paraguay, Paramilitary Groups, Peru, Peru's Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), Police Violence, The "Disappeared", The "Left" in Latin America, The "Right" in Latin America, The Cold War in Latin America, Torture, Uruguay, Uruguay's Military Dictatorship (1973-1985), Violence in the Americas
