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u/khosikulu · 20 pointsr/AskHistorians

It was more complicated than that, you're correct. But economic questions weren't irrelevant. Rather than talk out of school (my specialization), I thought I should point you at titles that may help and which I don't have to hand because I'm not in my office:

I don't know if this is too long in the tooth now, but Immerman's The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention may have some insights. Bear in mind it's 1983 so the situation became substantially more complicated in the following 7-10 years. But this may tell you a lot about that early period. Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions (1993) may also be worth a perusal.

But for more recent studies of US policy relative to the Guatemalan coup and its aftermath, I think Bitter Fruit (new edition, 2005) may still be at the top of the heap. Nick Cullather assembled the official CIA history of the 1950s coup in 1999, but I have never laid eyes on that book. I've read bits of Immerman and all of LaFeber, but a long time ago. Hopefully this will give you someplace to start!

u/AldoPeck · 5 pointsr/deepfatfried

https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Revolutions-United-Central-America/dp/0393309649/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537666453&sr=1-1&keywords=walter+lafeber+central+america

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Fucked over a ton of SA countries in way worse ways. Doesn't justify using Puerto Rico as a neoliberal laboratory and money laundering tax haven (that makes their economic numbers look better).

u/arjun101 · 2 pointsr/PoliticalDiscussion

I've been reading a lot of foreign policy stuff lately, here is what I recommend.

If there is one single book on foreign policy you should read, read Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004) by Steve Coll. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 2005, and is a fantastic book that examines the way US foreign policy in Central/South Asia developed, evolved, and devolved over during the '80s and '90s. Its brilliantly written, and weaves effortlessly between historical narrative, the personal journeys of key individuals, and the larger contemporary socio-economic and political context.

Other books I'd recommend on US foreign policy (fair warning, many of these are from a left-wing perspective and tend to be harshly critical--or at least, very cynical):

u/Sancv · 2 pointsr/TheAmericans

If anyone is interested in History:

Latin American in the Era of the Cuban Revolution


Inevitable Revolutions

Both great books that go well with the theme of Latin America this season. The first book is an easier read, while the second might be better suited for history lovers.

u/DrLyleChipChipperson · 0 pointsr/news

I'm well-versed on US Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Global South—The US Army School of The Americas, included. Yes, I, too have read Chomsky, LaFeber, et al.

Back to the present, and not history: What percentage of these children from Guatemala? You know Guatemala isn't the only country in Central America, right?

The government doesn't even have figures for this, of course, because the border hasn't been secure for decades.

Unfortunately, its past activity decades ago does little to explain why after Obama's Dreamers' Speech that tens of thousands of children were sent toward the border.

Obama's rhetoric of children arriving "through no fault of their own" and the wrongness of "punishment" for such actions was a huge green light for all of Central America and Mexico to send their children to the border. The law and border don't matter, because we're "compassionate" about the less fortunate (not the Americans displaced by illegal immigrants and their undercutting of labor, of course, which hurts teens and non-Asian minorities hardest).

What's the worst that could happen—they get sent back home? If they make it across, they can bring you (the parents) and your whole family over legally once they're made citizens; or at the very least their children will have it by birthright.