TY - BOOK AU - Livingstone,Grace TI - America's backyard: the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror SN - 9781848132139 (hardback) AV - 100 F 1418 L788a 2009 U1 - 327.8073 PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York, London, New York, NY PB - Zed Books, Latin America Bureau, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Latin America KW - Foreign relations KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - América Latina KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Estados Unidos KW - Condiciones sociales KW - Siglo XIX KW - Siglo XX N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index; Introduction -- The Monroe Doctrine to the Second World War -- The Cold War : the Guatemalan coup and the Cuban Revolution -- The Alliance for Progress -- The military governments of the 1970s -- Reagan and the Central American tragedy -- The end of the Cold War, 1989-2001 -- George W. Bush and the 'War on Terror' -- Why US drugs policy doesn't work -- Money, multinationals and misery -- Coca-Cola, cartoons and caricature -- Postscript -- Appendix A: US military interventions in Latin America in the twentieth century -- Appendix B: Latin American dictators who took training courses at the School of the Americas N2 - The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America's Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochet's coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador ER -