The Truman Administration and Bolivia
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The Truman Administration and Bolivia

Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy

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The Truman Administration and Bolivia

Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy

About this book

The United States emerged from World War II with generally good relations with the countries of Latin America and with the traditional Good Neighbor policy still largely intact. But it wasn't too long before various overarching strategic and ideological priorities began to undermine those good relations as the Cold War came to exert its grip on U.S. policy formation and implementation. In The Truman Administration and Bolivia, Glenn Dorn tells the story of how the Truman administration allowed its strategic concerns for cheap and ready access to a crucial mineral resource, tin, to take precedence over further developing a positive relationship with Bolivia. This ultimately led to the economic conflict that provided a major impetus for the resistance that culminated in the Revolution of 1952—the most important revolutionary event in Latin America since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The emergence of another revolutionary movement in Bolivia early in the millennium under Evo Morales makes this study of its Cold War predecessor an illuminating and timely exploration of the recurrent tensions between U.S. efforts to establish and dominate a liberal capitalist world order and the counterefforts of Latin American countries like Bolivia to forge their own destinies in the shadow of the "colossus of the north."

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. CIP
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Introduction
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Villarroel: April 1945-July 1946
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: Junta: July 1946-March 1947
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: Hertzog: March 1947-May 1949
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. Chapter 4: Urriolagoitia: May 1949-June 1950
  15. Notes to Chapter 4
  16. Chapter 5: To the Mamertazo: July 1950- May 1951
  17. Notes to Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6: Ballivián: May 1951-April 1952
  19. Notes to Chapter 6
  20. Chapter 7: Paz Estenssoro: April 1952-January 1953
  21. Notes to Chapter 7
  22. Conclusion
  23. Notes to Conclusion
  24. Epilogue
  25. Notes to Epilogue
  26. Notes
  27. Selected Bibliography
  28. Index
  29. COVER Back