TY  - BOOK
AU  - Becker,Marc
TI  - The CIA in Ecuador
T2  - American Encounters/Global Interactions
SN  - 9781478012993
PY  - 2021///
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - bicssc
KW  - International relations
KW  - Andes; History
KW  - international relations
KW  - Latin American studies
KW  - U.S. History; Politics
N1  - Open Access
N2  - In The CIA in Ecuador, Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s. Emphasizing the competing roles of the domestic ruling class and grassroots social movements, Becker details the struggles and difficulties that activists, organizers, and political parties confronted. He shows how leftist groups, including the Communist Party of Ecuador, navigated disagreements over tactics and ideology, and how these influenced shifting strategies in support of rural Indigenous communities and urban labor movements. He outlines the CIA's failure to understand that the Ecuadorian left was rooted in local social struggles rather than being bankrolled by the Soviet Union. By decentering US-Soviet power struggles, Becker shows that the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin American during the cold war
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ER  -