Chapter Resources
Chapter 16: The United States and Latin America, 1945–2007
Debates
Debating the impact of the Cold War in the Western Hemisphere
Maps
The United States and Latin America since 1945
Weblinks
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/uslatam.html
A University of Oregon website that gives a massive series of links to other sites dealing with US policy in Latin America.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/bpread/bpread.htm
The National Security Archives website offers unprecedented access to recently declassified documentation on the Cold War. The documents related to all aspects of US policy in Latin America are aired here (with a specific focus on the negative side). This specific link gives access to documents on the US-sponsored landing of anti-Castro forces in Cuba in April 1961 (the Bay of Pigs).
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/
The companion site to CNN's Cold War series, the first major international documentary on the subject. Links to all twenty-four episodes and their scripts, timelines, biographies, interactive maps and more. The part on the ‘dirty wars’ in Latin America is eye-opening while it also places the events in their broader Cold War context.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
Perhaps the easiest gateway to accessing primary documents from US archives. This is a digitalized version of the Foreign Relations of the United States series, divided by country or region and year(s). Numerous volumes deal with US–Latin American relations from the 1940s onwards.