The FBI in Ecuador
Book Review
Kincaid, Kenneth
http://solidarity-us.org/atc/198/fbi-in-ecuador/
Date Written: 2019-01-01
Publisher: Against the Current
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX23477
Review of a book detailing the FBI's actions in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
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Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files is a fascinating account of U.S. involvement in Ecuador during the World War II years. It adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America, which are so much better known in the cases of coups and destabilization efforts of the Central Intelligence Agency (Guatemala, Brazil, Chile etc.). Further, it shows the strong historical continuity in U.S. actions in Latin America, going back well before the onset of the Cold War....
What makes The FBI in Latin America an extraordinary work, additionally, is that it draws from Becker’s extensive knowledge of Ecuador’s social movements and political left, accrued through decades of research, meshed with the new material gleaned from boxes of FBI documents. The result is a carefully written study of U.S. efforts to stay abreast of political and economic developments in the smallest republic of the Andes.
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