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Critical Romance
Contributor(s): Mileur, Jean-Pierre (Author), Bartley, Sylvia Erickson (Author)
ISBN: 0299124142     ISBN-13: 9780299124144
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.25  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 1990
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Political Science | International Relations - General
Dewey: 801.95
LCCN: 89-40533
Series: Cambridge Human Geography
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
This is a stellar, courageous work of investigative journalism and historical scholarship grippingly told, meticulously documented, and doggedly pursued over thirty years. Tracking a Cold War confrontation that has compromised the national interests of both Mexico and the United States, Eclipse of the Assassins exposes deadly connections among historical events usually remembered as isolated episodes.
Authors Russell and Sylvia Bartley shed new light on the U.S.-instigated dirty wars that ravaged all of Latin America in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s and reveal for the first time how Mexican officials colluded with Washington in its proxy contra war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. They draw together the strands of a clandestine web linking:
  • the assassination of prominent Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia
  • the torture and murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena
  • the Iran-Contra scandal
  • a major DEA sting against key CIA-linked Bolivian, Panamanian, and Mexican drug traffickers
  • CIA-orchestrated suppression of investigative journalists
  • criminal collusion of successive U.S. and Mexican administrations that has resulted in the unprecedented power of drug kingpins like El Chapo Guzman.
Eclipse of the Assassins places a major political crime the murder of Buendia in its full historical perspective and shows how the dirty wars of the past are still claiming victims today.
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