Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977-1984: Mis Lam#26

by Ariel Armony

Overview

Ariel Armony focuses, in this study, on the role played by Argentina in the anti-Communist crusade in Central America. This systematic examination of Argentina's involvement in the Central American drama of the late 1970s and early 1980s fine-tunes our knowledge of a major episode of the Cold War era.

Basing his study on exhaustive research in the United States, Argentina, and Nicaragua, Armony adroitly demolishes several key assumptions that have shaped the work of scholars in U.S. foreign policy, Argentine military politics, and Central American affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780896801967
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	09/15/1997
Series:	Ohio RIS Latin America Series , #26
Edition description:	1
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1780L (what's this?)

Editorial Reviews

"Armony breaks new ground as he recounts the transfer of Argentine techniques of state terrorism to Central America in the 1970s and early 1980s and sheds light on eventual Reagan Administration complicity in that phenomenon. An important contributi

"Full of astounding detail drawn heavily from interviews with participants, this book reveals how the principals of Argentina's dirty war organized and funded the early anti-Sandinista struggle from the remnants of the Nicaraguan National Guar

"[Armony's] account of the regionalization of counterrevolution and repression is a major addition to the historical record of the most controversial covert war of the 20th century."--Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst, the National Sec

"Ariel Armony addresses a major question in U.S.-Latin American relations: is it possible to promote democracy by anti-democratic means? Anyone seriously interested in this topic will find an answer in Armony's ground-breaking study."&md

"This book not only documents Argentina's involvement in Central America and the U.S. role in stimulating it, but also provides a unique opportunity for policymakers and others to understand the perils of using strategies which ultimately thre

From the Publisher

Much academic research in the 1980s focused on the U.S. role in supporting repressive, antiguerrilla military governments in Central America, with only a hint of Argentina's influence in the region. This important, original work clearly establishes in detail the influence of the Argentina "dirty war" strategies, their linkages to the Central American death squads and the U.S. intelligence operatives, and their consequences for human rights in the region. Armony, an Argentine who worked as a journalist in Buenos Aires and is now a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Pittsburgh, illustrates the level of collaboration among these groups, the continuing influence of the Argentine intelligence community on antiguerrilla tactics (as seen in Mexico's 1994 Chiapas uprising), and their threat to emerging democratization. Highly recommended.Roderic A. Camp, Latin American Ctr., Tulane Univ., New Orleans

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