Gathering Storm

Sebastian Hurtado-Torres

Description

In this novel take on diplomatic history, Sebastian Hurtado-Torres examines the involvement of the United States in Chile during the Eduardo Frei administration (1964-1970) and shows how the engagement between the two nations deepened the process of political polarization in Chile. At the heart of The Gathering Storm is a description of the partnership between Frei's government and that of Lyndon B. Johnson. Both leaders considered modernization to be integral to political and economic development, and the US Embassy in Santiago was recognized by all parties to be the center of this modernizing agenda and the practical work of the Alliance for Progress (AFP). Hurtado-Torres portrays the diplomatic and economic relationship between Chile and the United States in a manner that departs from the most militant and conservative interpretations of US foreign policy toward Latin America. By focusing on the active participation of agents of US foreign policy-particularly those associated with the AFP-and not secret operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency, Hurtado-Torres offers a fresh narrative about a critical period in Chilean political history and a new understanding of the ways and means through which the foreign policy of the United States was carried out.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• United States of America
• América del Sur
• Diplomacy
• South America
• History of the Americas
• Chile
• États-Unis
• Diplomatie (homonymie)
• Chili

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501747205
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

The Gathering Storm

A VO LU M E I N T H E S E R I E S

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD Edited by David C. Engerman, Amy S. Greenberg, and Paul A. Kramer

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The Gathering Storm

Eduardo Frei’s Revolution in Liberty and Chile’s Cold War

Sebastián HurtadoTorres

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

Copyright © 2020 by Cornell University

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: HurtadoTorres, Sebastián, 1982– author. Title: The gathering storm : Eduardo Frei’s revolution in liberty and Chile’s cold war / Sebastián HurtadoTorres. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: The United States in the world | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019025914 (print) | LCCN 2019025915 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501747182 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501747199 (epub) | ISBN 9781501747205 (pdf ) Subjects: LCSH: Frei Montalva, Eduardo, 1911–1982. | United States—Foreign relations—Chile. | Chile—Foreign relations— United States. | Chile—Politics and government—1920–1970. Classification: LCC E183.8.C4 H87 2020 (print) | LCC E183.8.C4 (ebook) | DDC 327.73083—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019025914 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019025915

Cover image: Woman with baby attending a campaign rally for Eduardo Frei Montalva during the period 1964–1970. Courtesy of Archivo Fotográfico, Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva.

To the memory of Macarena Acuña Bardessi

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations

Contents

Introduction: The United States and Chilean Politics in the Cold War 1. The U.S. Embassy in Santiago and the Presidential Election of 1964 2. Time of Hope, 1964–1967 3. Time of Trouble, 1967–1969 4. Chilean Copper and U.S. Companies 5. The Presidential Candidacy of Radomiro Tomic 6. The United States and the Last Two Years of the Frei Administration 7. The United States and the Presidential Election of 1970 8. Eduardo Frei, the U.S. Embassy, and the Election of Salvador Allende Conclusion: The Influence of the United States in Chilean Politics

Notes Bibliography Index

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16 46 72 97 118

137 151

165 189

205 235 247

Acknowledgments

In crafting this book, I have had the fortune of receiving assistance, sup port, and encouragement from a number of people and institutions, the men tion of whose names in this section is only a minimal and insufficient form of acknowledgment and gratitude on my part. First, I must thank, in the names of Drs. John Brobst, Katherine Jellison, Chester Pach, Ingo Trauschweitzer, and Steve Miner, the Department of History and the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University for invaluable assistance for my research, which included a number of trips I could not have afforded without their generous funding. The rest of the faculty of the Ohio University Department of His tory taught me to better understand the United States and its foreign policy, thus helping me develop a more nuanced view of the history of the relations between Latin America and its big neighbor of the north. Outside the De partment of History, Dr. Brad Jokisch also contributed in this regard. The Office of the Vice President for Research at OU and the Graduate Student Senate also granted me helpful assistance in research for this book. Finally, the administrative staff at the OU Department of History and the Contemporary History Institute, especially Kara Dunfee, Sherry Gillogly, and Brenda Nel son, made my life easier while I was a graduate student by performing their duties with great professionalism, dedication, and care. CONICYT, the Chil ean chapter of the Fulbright Foundation, and the Institute of International Education, especially through Zamaly Diaz and Megan Shuck, helped me find and apply to the doctoral program at Ohio University and provided the funding I needed to complete the program and obtain the degree.