FBI in Latin America

Marc Becker is Professor of History at Truman State University and the author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements, also published by Duke University Press, Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions, and Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador.

• Preface  viiAcknowledgments  ixAbbreviations  xiIntroduction. FBI  11. SIS  172. Communism  533. Labor  954. La Gloriosa  1255. Constitution  1576. Coup  1937. Departures  223Conclusion. Cold War  249Notes   259Bibliography   299Index  311

"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended." - A. J. Dunar (Choice) "Becker has done extensive research for this book, and his close examination and analysis of the documentary record left behind by FBI, CIA and State Department surveillance of Ecuador are both apparent and appreciated. . . . This is an interesting, well-researched text." - Courteney J. O'Connor (LSE Review of Books) "An exciting and ambitious effort. Students of Ecuador (and Latin America, more broadly) and US foreign policy, as well as policing and intelligence, will learn a great deal from this book." - Stuart Schrader (Radical Americas) "Sourcing is excellent...this book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." - Douglas M. Charles (Journal of American History) "Highly original and well-researched account . . .   An interesting and detailed history of the mid-century Ecuadorian left." - Max Paul Friedman (Journal of Interdisciplinary History) "This book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." - Douglas M. Charles (Journal of American History) "A model for the innovative use of primary sources to explore multiple perspectives in history. . . . Becker deftly balances background information with detail and analysis, making the work useful and readable for scholars from many different fields. . . . Essential reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century Ecuadorian history, the history of the Latin American left, or the history of US surveillance in Latin America." - Erin E. O'Connor (The Americas) "Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America . . . .Becker’s work is an important contribution to the historiography of U.S.-Latin American relations, groundbreaking in the sense that it puts the FBI (not the CIA) at the heart of the earliest intelligence gathering by an agency of the U.S. government." - Kenneth Kincaid (Against the Current) "The FBI in Latin America is a compelling history that will no doubt spawn similar studies on other countries in the region. Through the use of a fascinating and revealing set of sources, Becker is able to capture a particularly important moment in the emergence of the US as a post-WWII imperial power while simultaneously enriching our understanding of the Latin American left on the eve of its Cold War demise. This well-written book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Latin America, US foreign policy, the Cold War, and the political left." - Steve Striffler (Canadian Journal of History)