The United States and Somoza, 1933-1956: A Revisionist Look

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The first in-depth look at U.S. relations with the founder of the Somoza family dynasty in Nicaragua, Clark’s book breaks new ground in diplomatic history. Based solidly on the diplomatic record, this work takes a strong revisionist stance, arguing against the commonly accepted view that the United States created the Somoza regime and kept the first Somoza in power as a surrogate to offer protection to U.S. interests in Central The us. To the contrary, the writer reveals that U.S. officials–principally foreign service officers–fought tirelessly for democracy in Nicaragua all through a number of the long Somoza Garcia era. Clark’s work shows that during the 1930s and 1940s there was a consistent effort by the U.S. government to oppose dictatorship in Nicaragua, an effort not diminished until Cold War obsessions in the end overtook–and eventually consumed–Washington’s Latin American policymakers.

Clark demonstrates that Somoza’s continuance in power was clearly as a result of his own political brilliance, dark as it surely was, and not to U.S. strengthen for his regime. Somoza simply outlasted American opposition to his dictatorship. By the 1950s, the Cold War had driven Washington to embrace the most reprehensible of allies so long as they joined the anti-communist crusade. Clark’s diplomatic history will be useful for scholars and students of U.S. foreign relations, U.S.-Latin American relations, and U.S. diplomacy.

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