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Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War

Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War

Miller, Aragorn Storm

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryInternational RelationsSouth American History

ISBN10: 0826356877
ISBN13: 9780826356871
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: May 15 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Miller analyzes US-Venezuelan relations during the 1950s and 1960s as a case study for the broader political dynamics of the hemisphere and beyond during the critical period of the global Cold War. He addresses the perception that US foreign policy toward Latin America was an overwhelming failure in which initiatives intended to promote democracy and modernization, and to insulate the hemisphere from the ideological struggles of the global Cold War, reaped only authoritarian regimes, uneven and sluggish economic growth, and abstract debates over capitalism and communism that distracted attention from Latin America's pressing socioeconomic problems. Precarious Paths to Freedom demonstrates that Washington rather achieved success by cultivating a partnership with a democratizing Venezuela. From 1958 onward US policymakers identified Venezuela as the crucial bulwark against political extremism and as the ideal partner in the creation of a modernized, prosperous, and pro-US Latin America.

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