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From Development to Dictatorship : Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era /

During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s Bolivia ended up on a collision course with im...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Field, Thomas C., Jr (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: ideology as strategy
  • Modernization's heavy-hand: the triangular plan for Bolivia
  • Development as anticommunism: the targeting of Bolivian labor
  • "Bitter medicine": military civic action and the battle of Irupata
  • Development's detractors: miners, housewives, and the hostage crisis at Siglo XX
  • Seeds of revolt: the making of an anti-authoritarian front
  • Revolutionary Bolivia puts on a uniform: the 1964 Bolivian coup d'etat
  • Conclusion: development and its discontents
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.