The Last Colonial Massacre

Posted on 02 May 2018 by Greg Grandin

After decades of bloody revolutions and political terror, many scholars and politicians lament the rise and brief influence of the left in Latin America since the triumph of Castro they have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing Communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right wing backlash The Last Colonial Massacre challenges these views.Using Guatemala as a case study, Greg Grandin argues that the Cold War in Latin America was a struggle not between American liberalism and Soviet Communism but between two visions of democracy The main effect of United States intervention in Latin America, Grandin shows, was not the containment of Communism but the elimination of home grown concepts of social democracy.Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Grandin uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War of hidebound reactionaries intent on holding on to their own power and privilege of Mayan Marxists, blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of freedom and equality and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the continent Drawing from declassified U.S documents, Grandin exposes Washington s involvement in the 1966 secret execution of than thirty Guatemalan leftists, which, he argues, prefigured the later wave of disappearances in Chile and Argentina.Impassioned but judicious, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the triumphal role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond. Free Read The Last Colonial Massacre [ By ] Greg Grandin [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr The Cold War wasn t fought only between the United States and the Soviet Union Latin America was a battleground from the 1950s to the 1980s and not only in Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua Guatemala, the unfortunate locus of a thirty years long civil war characterized by the slaughter of entire villages, including the machine gunning of peasants gathered to petition the government and the pioneering use of untraceable death squads for the extrajudicial murder of political activists was a theater of t The Cold War wasn t fought only between the United States and the Soviet Union Latin America was a battleground from the 1950s to the 1980s and not only in Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua Guatemala, the unfortunate locus of a thirty years lo...The first major criticism I have with this book is the title While it touches on events in Latin America in the introduction and the conclusion..the rest of the book is a detailed study of the events in Guatemala That is okay, I found it very interesting, but the title misrepresents I saw some of the reviewers on the back of the book mentioned he used Guatemala as a case study on the Cold war events in Latin America, but I don t think that is possible While history may have played out simarl The first major criticism I have with this book is the title While it touches on events in Latin America in the introduction and the conclusion..the rest of the book is a detailed study of the events in Guatemala That is okay, I found it very interesting, but the title misrepresents I saw some of the reviewers on the back of the book mentioned he used Guatemala as a case study on the Cold war events in Latin America, but I don t think that is possible While history may have played out simarly in the hand full of countries that compromise Latin America, they are still very individual and diverse in their culture and the way foreign powers influenced them during the Cold War, and the way their population s responded The title did not play well with me That said, the book was well researched and interesting His writing was a bit disorganized, at times he would add statements that needed clarification, but wouldn t be there A sign that the writer was very clo...very very boringGrandin, Greg, The Last Colonial Massacre Latin American in the Cold War United States University of Chicago Press, 2004.The Last Colonial Massacre Latin America in Cold War by Greg Grandin, who is a professor of history at NYU with a specialization in Latin America and the Caribbean history, has written authoritative works concerning Latin American conflicts The Guatemalan counterrevolution is used as a case study about how he views the conflict as two distinct visions of democracy shared Grandin, Greg, The Last Colonial Massacre Latin American in the Cold War United States University of Chicago Press, 2004.The Last Colonial Massacre Latin America in Cold War by Greg Grandin, who is a professor of history at NYU with a specialization in Latin America and the Caribbean history, has written authoritative works concerning Latin American conflicts The Guatemalan counterrevolution is used as a case study about how he views the conflict ...I found Grandin s prose very convoluted and full of grammatical errors That aside, his interest in Guatemala as a representation of the damage Cold War ideology did to the ideals of democracy was interesting So I thought his overarching argu...This book discusses the unrest that took place in Guatemala with the support of the CIA Before this book I had no idea there was a cold war in Latin America It is a great read to begin understanding how people develop personal and social consciousness.This book is a brutal read It really gives a different perspective than the history textbooks on Reagan and US foreign policy in Latin America during the Cold War.i wanted to love thisthe intro and conclusion were amazing, but the history was a bit hard to follow if you weren t already an expert on guatemala in the 20th century.In his critically acclaimed work, Grandin uses Guatemala as a case study for the often American backed repression of the Cold War in Latin America.I recommend this book

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02 May 2018

Greg Grandin