Resources for Further Research and for the Classroom
Historical Overviews and Perspectives: Latin American and the Cold War:
Books
Rafael Bernabe, & Cesar Ayala, Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History since
1898.
Jean Franco. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City. (LA lit & the Cold War)
Greg Grandin. Empire’s Workshop
Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War
Greg Grandin and Gilbert Joseph. Counterinsurgent Violence. (Forthcoming)
Martha Huggins, Political Policing: The United States and Latin America
Gilbert Joseph and Daniela Spencer, eds. In from the Cold: Latin Americas New Encounter
with the Cold War.
Stephen Kinzer. Overthrow. New York: Times Books, 2006.
Anthony Maingot, . The United States and the Caribbean: Transforming Hegemony and
Sovereignty
Gaddis Smith. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine: 1945-1993.
Peter H. Smith. Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U. S.-Latin American Relations.
Odd Arne Westad. Global Cold War.
Argentina: Remembering the Disappeared:
Books
Argentine National Commission on Disappeared. Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine
National Commission on the Disappeared by
Rita Arditti. Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the
Disappeared Children of Argentina.
John Dinges. The Condor Years
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Nathan Englander. The Ministry of Special Cases
Marguerite Feitlowitz: A Lexicon of Terror.
Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro. Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron.
Andrew Graham-Yooll. A State of Fear.
Tomas Eloy Martinez. Santa Evita.
Alicia Partnoy. The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina
Jacobo Timerman. Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number.
Websites
“Argentina: the past lies buried in San Vicente” by Signe Prøis, Amnesty Nytt (December
11, 2003): http://www.amnesty.no/web.nsf/pages/4674212472BA3D4AC1256DEF0052CB72
Argentine Forensic: Anthropology Team: http://eaaf.typepad.com/
Association of the Mothers de Plaza de Mayo: http://www.madres.org/
Statement from a grandmother searching for her kidnapped granddaughter:
http://ourdisappeared.com/od/node/27
“The Unending War: Argentina’s quest for justice” by Sam Ferguson, The Boston Review
(July 22, 2008): http://www.law.yale.edu/news/7384.htm
Chile and the War:
Books
Peter Kornbluh. The Pinochet File
Guatemala: Coming to Terms and Moving Forward:
Books
Nick Cullather and Piero Gleijeses. Secret history: the CIA's classified account of its
operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954.
Paul Kobrak, Organizing and Repression in the University of San Carlos, Guatemala.
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Michael McClintock, The American Connection: State Terror and Popular Resistance in
Guatemala.
Jennifer Schirmer, The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy
Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in
Guatemala.
Websites
The National Security Archive Guatemala Project, www.nsarchive.org/guatemala
Literature
Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens (Grove Press, 1998).
Mexico: Politics, Culture and Counterculture
Books
Jorge Castañeda. Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen.
Jefferson Morely. Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.
Alan Riding. Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans
Peter Smith , “Mexico Since 1946: Dynamics of an Authoritarian Regime,” in Leslie Bethell,
ed., Mexico Since Independence.
Eric Zolov. Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture.
Nicaragua: New Perspectives on Old Ideas:
Books
John Brentlinger . The Best of What We Are: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution.
Liz Chilsen and Sheldon Rampton. Friends in Deed: The Story of Us Nicaragua Sister
Cities
Lou Dematteis. Nicaragua: A Decade of Revolution.
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