"En 1967, un jovencísimo Eduardo Galeano emprendió un viaje que marcaría su carrera como periodista y su sensibilidad política para siempre: pasó varios meses en Guatemala con el objetivo de entrevistar a los líderes de los dos grupos guerrilleros -las FAR y el MR 13- que desafi…
Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches against their Soviet and We…
"PERIPHERAL NERVE is an edited volume that brings together scholars from the United States, Canada, and Latin America to challenge the dominant narrative that the United States was the primary medical interlocutor in Latin America during the Cold War. It chronicles the experienc…
"PERIPHERAL NERVE is an edited volume that brings together scholars from the United States, Canada, and Latin America to challenge the dominant narrative that the United States was the primary medical interlocutor in Latin America during the Cold War. It chronicles the experienc…
Introduction: Alternative Destinies and Solidarities for Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America / Anne-Emanuelle Birn -- Under Surveillance : Public Health, the FBI, and Exile in Cold War Mexico / -- Katherine E. Bliss -- National Politics and Scientific Pursuits : Medica…
"PERIPHERAL NERVE is an edited volume that brings together scholars from the United States, Canada, and Latin America to challenge the dominant narrative that the United States was the primary medical interlocutor in Latin America during the Cold War. It chronicles the experienc…
"PERIPHERAL NERVE is an edited volume that brings together scholars from the United States, Canada, and Latin America to challenge the dominant narrative that the United States was the primary medical interlocutor in Latin America during the Cold War. It chronicles the experienc…
Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere applies competing definitions and conceptions of hegemony to various foreign policy initiatives and events during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama to test whether they manifest a …
Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere applies competing definitions and conceptions of hegemony to various foreign policy initiatives and events during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama to test whether they manifest a …
Bush II, Obama, and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere applies competing definitions and conceptions of hegemony to various foreign policy initiatives and events during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama to test whether they manifest a …
The FBI in Latin America: the Ecuador files
During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. Th…