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oapen-20.500.12657-418852020-09-25T00:49:41Z The CIA in Ecuador Becker, Marc Latin American studies Andes; History U.S. History; Politics international relations bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations 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. 2020-09-24T09:55:08Z 2020-09-24T09:55:08Z 2021 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41885 eng American Encounters/Global Interactions application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781478012993.pdf 9781478012993.epub Duke University Press Duke University Press Books 10.1215/9781478012993 10.1215/9781478012993 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) Duke University Press Books 336 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation open access
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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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