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Article: U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War.(Book review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2009
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U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War. By Michael Grow. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 266 pp.
Almost two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, it is high time to reappraise and reconsider conventional wisdom. For many years, the study of U.S. intervention in Latin America during the cold war has focused predominantly on the interplay between economic and national security interests. More specifically, Marxist (or at least Marxist-inspired) governments in the region nationalized the property of U.S. companies and seemed to be on the verge of becoming Soviet satellites that would threaten the ...