The Truman Administration and Bolivia: Making the World Safe for Liberal Constitutional Oligarchy

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The United States emerged from World War II with normally good relations with the countries of Latin The united states and with the traditional Good Neighbor policy still in large part intact. But it wasn’t too long before quite a lot of overarching strategic and ideological priorities started to undermine those good relations as the Cold War came to exert its grip on U.S. policy formation and implementation. In The Truman Administration and Bolivia, Glenn Dorn tells the story of how the Truman administration allowed its strategic concerns for cheap and able get admission to to a a very powerful mineral resource, tin, to take precedence over further developing a positive relationship with Bolivia. This in the long run led to the economic conflict that provided a major impetus for the resistance that culminated in the Revolution of 1952—a very powerful revolutionary event in Latin The united states since the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The emergence of another revolutionary movement in Bolivia early in the millennium under Evo Morales makes this study of its Cold War predecessor an illuminating and timely exploration of the recurrent tensions between U.S. efforts to establish and dominate a liberal capitalist world order and the counterefforts of Latin American countries like Bolivia to forge their own destinies in the shadow of the “colossus of the north.”

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