Thy Will Be Done

The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

Gerard Colby, Charlotte Dennett

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781504048392
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia nordamericana

A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region's indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this "well-documented" ( Los Angeles Times ) book—the product of eighteen years of research—which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called "an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive."

INDEX

ABCAR. See Associação Brasileiras de Crédito e Assistência Rural

Abourezk, James, 775

Academy of Education Development, 746

ACAR. See Associaçao de Crédito e Assistência Rural

Accelerated Rural Development, Thailand, 556, 557

Actión Democrática party, Venezuela, 90, 218, 219

Act of Chapultepec, 170–72, 175, 177, 230, 233, 349

Adams, Edward F., 219

Addict Treatment Act, New York, 541

Advanced Research Projects Agency, 568, 871n42

Advisory Committee on Government Organization, 255–56

Aerovias Sud Americana (ASA), 520–21

Afghanistan, 783, 798

AFL-CIO, 441, 831, 833

African-American Institute, 339, 851n33, 879n16

Agee, Philip, 424, 442, 444, 469

Agency for International Development (AID): and AIA, 429, 613, 663; and CIA, 4, 375, 398, 447, 743, 879n16; in Far East, 549, 556, 560, 567, 743, 799–800; in Latin America, 422, 424, 500, 602, 632, 743, 746; and Rockefellers, 474, 613, 777; and SIL, 438, 743–44; and torture, 690

Agnew, Spiro, 708, 716

Agrarian reform, undermining of, 319–20, 458, 750

Agrarian Reform Law, Venezuela, 685

Agricultural Development Council, 475, 477, 555

Agricultural Research Service, 511

AIA. See American International Association for Economic and Social Development

AID. See Agency for International Development

AIM. See American Indian Movement

Air America, 548, 737, 757, 879n16

Air Asia, 384

Air Congo, 340

Air Transport Service, 343

Airborne Instruments Laboratory, 294, 339, 392

Alarcón, Sandoval, 817

Albízu Campos, Pedro, 225

Albuquerque Lima, Gen., 4, 622–29

ALCAN. See Aluminum Company of Canada

Alch, Gerald, 732

ALCOA. See Aluminum Company of America

Aldrich, Nelson, 32, 276, 844n30

Aldrich, Richard: and Alliance for Progress, 362; and CIA, 380–81; and IBEC, 380, 452, 610, 611, 740; and Japanese labor, 308; on Lati...