Latin America and the Global Cold War

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Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America’s forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. It uncovers a multitude of overlapping and sometimes conflicting iterations of Third Worldist movements in Latin America, and offers insights for better understanding the region’s past, as well as its possible futures, challenging us to consider how the Global Cold War continues to inform Latin America’s ongoing political struggles. Contributors: Miguel Serra Coelho, Thomas C. Field Jr., Sarah Foss, Michelle Getchell, Eric Gettig, Alan McPherson, Stella Krepp, Eline van Ommen, Eugenia Palieraki, Vanni Pettinà, Tobias Rupprecht, David M. K. Sheinin, Christy Thornton, Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva, and Odd Arne Westad. Acknowledgments Introduction: Between Nationalism and Internationalism: Latin America and the Third World Part I. Third World Nationalism 1. Brazil and India: A Brave New World, 1948-1961 2. Bolivia between Washington, Prague, and Havana: The Limits of Nationalism, 1960-1964 3. Mexican-Soviet Encounters in the Early 1960s: Tractors of Discord 4. Brazil and Non-Alignment: Latin America's Role in the Global Order, 1961-1964 5. Community Development in Cold War Guatemala: Not a Revolution but an Evolution 6. Cuba, the USSR, and the Non-Aligned Movement: Negotiating Non-Alignment 7. Argentina's Secret Cold War: Vigilance, Repression, and Nuclear Independence Part II. Third World Internationalism 8. Anti-Imperialist Racial Solidarity before the Cold War: Success and Failure 9. Latin American Tercermundistas in the Soviet Union: Paradise Lost and Found 10. Cuba, the United States, and the Uses of the Third World Project, 1959-1967 11. Chile, Algeria, and the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s: Revolutions Entangled 12. A Mexican New International Economic Order? 13. Third Worldism and the Panama Canal: Liberating the Isthmus, 1971-1978 14. Isolating Nicaragua's Somoza: Sandinista Diplomacy in Western Europe, 1977-1979 Conclusion: The Third World in Latin America List of Contributors Index