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

Contents

Preface ix List of Abbreviations xvii Map of South America, Early 1960s xx Map of Bolivia, Early 1960s xxi Introduction: Ideology as Strategy 1 1. Modernization’s Heavy Hand: The Triangular Plan for Bolivia 10 2. Development as Anticommunism: The Targeting of Bolivian Labor 39 3. “Bitter Medicine”: Military Civic Action and the Battle of Irupata 67 4. Development’s Detractors: Miners, Housewives, and the Hostage Crisis at Siglo XX 98 5. Seeds of Revolt: The Making of an Antiauthoritarian Front 131 6. Revolutionary Bolivia Puts On a Uniform: The 1964 Bolivian Coup d’État 159 Conclusion: Development and Its Discontents 189 Notes 197 Bibliography 243 Index 263 Contents ...