The CIA in Ecuador
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 str...
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| description | 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 being 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 American during the cold war. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-330042025-06-11T06:46:21Z The CIA in Ecuador Becker, Marc Latin American studies Andes; History U.S. History; Politics international relations thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations 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 being 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 American during the cold war. 2021-02-10T14:04:08Z 2021-02-10T14:04:08Z 2020-09-24T09:55:08Z 2021 book OCN: 1224035398 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41885 9781478010357 9781478011385 9781478011385 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33004 eng American Encounters/Global Interactions open access image/png image/png image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41885/2/9781478012993.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41885/2/9781478012993.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41885/1/9781478012993.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41885/1/9781478012993.pdf Duke University Press Duke University Press Books 10.1215/9781478012993 10.1215/9781478012993 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 9781478010357 9781478011385 9781478011385 Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) Duke University Press Books 336 open access |
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