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Contents 5 Preface vii Introduction Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Mark Atwood Lawrence, and Julio E. Moreno 1 Chapter One · Julio E. Moreno Coca-Cola, U.S. Diplomacy, and the Cold War in America’s Backyard 21 Chapter Two · Giovanni Batz Military Factionalism and the Consolidation of Power in 1960s Guatemala 51 Chapter Three · Aragorn Storm Miller Season of Storms: The United States and the Caribbean Contest for a New Political Order, 1958–1961 76 Chapter Four · Jonathan C. Brown Counterrevolution in the Caribbean: The CIA and Cuban Commandos in the 1960s 103 Chapter Five · Renata Keller Don Lázaro Rises Again: Heated Rhetoric, Cold Warfare, and the 1961 Latin American Peace Conference 129 Chapter Six · Seth Garfield From Ploughshares to Politics: Transformations in Rural Brazil during the Cold War and Its Aftermath 150 Chapter Seven · James Jenkins The Indian Wing: Nicaraguan Indians, Native American Activists, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1979–1990 175 Chapter Eight · K. Cheasty Anderson Doctors Within Borders: Cuban Medical Diplomacy to Sandinista Nicaragua, 1979–1990 200 Chapter Nine · Jennifer T. Hoyt The Other Dirty War: Cleaning Up Buenos Aires during the Last Dictatorship, 1976–1983 226 Chapter Ten · Bonar L. Hernández “Restoring All Things in Christ”: Social Catholicism, Urban Workers, and the Cold War in Guatemala 251 Chapter Eleven · Michelle Denise Reeves The Evolution of “Narcoterrorism”: From the Cold War to the War on Drugs 281 Afterword · Alan McPherson The Paradox of Latin American Cold War Studies 307 Contributors 321 Index 325 ...

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