Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Nixon and Latin America Chapter 3 Early U.S.-Chilean Relations Chapter 4 Opposing the Election: 1970 Chapter 5 Undermining the Chilean Experiment: 1971 Chapter 6 Allende's Fall: 1972-1973 Chapter 7 Afterword: Two American Victims
Lubna Z. Qureshi earned her doctorate in history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2006. She also holds an M.A. from Temple University and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of research are U.S. diplomatic history and international history.
Qureshi's elegantly written study offers a fresh and
well-researched interpretation of U.S. foreign policy toward Chile
during the Allende presidency. This book explains U.S. opposition
to the Allende government by highlighting Nixon and Kissinger's
imperial disdain for Latin America in general and Chile in
particular, their fundamental ignorance of the region, and the
influence of the U.S. business community. Qureshi draws on an array
of sources, including the Nixon tapes, U.S. and Chilean government
documents, and secondary sources to shed new light on a pivotal
moment in U.S. history. She also discusses the history and
importance of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, two North Americans
killed by the Chilean military (with possible U.S. government
complicity) following the September 11, 1973, coup that overthrew
Allende. For anyone who wants a clearer understanding of U.S.
foreign policy toward Chile during the Nixon presidency, this book
is essential reading.
*Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology*
Using freshly released U.S. tapes and documents and Chilean sources
Lubna Qureshi has written a fresh analysis of the United States'
1973 intervention to overthrow the freely elected government of
Salvador Allende. Qureshi demonstrates that the Nixon
administration did not truly perceive Allende as a threat to U.S.
national security in the overall context of the Cold War. Rather,
Nixon and Kissinger feared Allende's socializing and nationalizing
actions would encourage other Latin American nations to challenge
American hegemony. The major impelling force behind the US
intervention in Chile that lead to a dictatorship came from the
corporate concerns of President Nixon and pressures from powerful
business clients to control the civilian economy.. Woven into this
convincing interpretation are episodes of concise narrative
including the CIA assisted assassination of General Schneider, the
last constitutionalist military leader protecting civilian
government against the coup d'etat by General Pinochet, and
adiscussion of U.S. victims of the vicious aftermath, among them
Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi. Qureshi's volume is a significant
revisioning and recontextualization of a grim episode from which
the thriving, redemocratized, and pace setting Chile has o
*Diane S. Clemens, University of California, Berkeley*
Using freshly released U.S. tapes and documents and Chilean sources
Lubna Qureshi has written a fresh analysis of the United States'
1973 intervention to overthrow the freely elected government of
Salvador Allende. Qureshi demonstrates that the Nixon
administration did not truly perceive Allende as a threat to U.S.
national security in the overall context of the Cold War. Rather,
Nixon and Kissinger feared Allende's socializing and nationalizing
actions would encourage other Latin American nations to challenge
American hegemony. The major impelling force behind the US
intervention in Chile that lead to a dictatorship came from the
corporate concerns of President Nixon and pressures from powerful
business clients to control the civilian economy.. Woven into this
convincing interpretation are episodes of concise narrative
including the CIA assisted assassination of General Schneider, the
last constitutionalist military leader protecting civilian
government against the coup d'etat by General Pinochet, and a
discussion of U.S. victims of the vicious aftermath, among them
Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi. Qureshi's volume is a significant
revisioning and recontextualization of a grim episode from which
the thriving, redemocratized, and pace setting Chile has only
recently emerged.
*Diane S. Clemens, University of California, Berkeley*
For anyone interested in the economic motivations that led the
Nixon administration to intervene in Chile, or how Nixon spoke
about Latin America and the issue of democracy in private, this is
nevertheless a useful book. It is a good book for those wanting to
examine the role that dependency and capitalism played in Chile and
it will be helpful alongside books on the same subject by scholars
like Haslam and Kristian Gustafson for encouraging students to
explore different arguments related to U.S. involvement in
Chile.
*H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online*
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