Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. New Approaches, Debates, and Sources
5. What We Now Know and Should Know: Bringing Latin America More Meaningfully into Cold War Studies 1
6. Recovering the Memory of the Cold War: Forensic History and Latin America 47
7. II. Latin America between the Superpowers: International Realpolitik, the Ideology of the State, and the ‘‘Latin Americanization’’ of the Conflict
8. The Caribbean Crisis: Catalyst for Soviet Projection in Latin America 77
9. The View from Havana: Lessons from Cuba’s African Journey, 1959–1976 112
10. Transnationalizing the Dirty War: Argentina in Central America 134
11. III. Everyday Contests over Culture and Representation in the Latin American Cold War
12. Producing the Cold War in Mexico: The Public Limits of Covert Communications 171
13. ¡Cuba sí, Yanquis no! The Sacking of the Instituto Cultural México– Norteamericano in Morelia, Michoacán, 1961 214
14. Miracle on Ice: Industrial Workers and the Promise of Americanization in Cold War Mexico 253
15. Chicano Cold Warriors: César Chávez, Mexican American Politics, and California Farmworkers 273
16. Birth Control Pills and Molotov Cocktails: Reading Sex and Revolution in 1968 Brazil 308
17. Rural Markets, Revolutionary Souls, and Rebellious Women in Cold War Guatemala 350
18. IV. Final Reflections
19. Standing Conventional Cold War History on Its Head Daniela Spenser 381
20. Selective Bibliography 397
21. Contributors 427
22. Index 429