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The United States' secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the mid-twentieth century is revealed in this "blistering exposé", with a new introduction by the authors ( Publishers Weekly ). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to...

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Author

Colby, Gerard; Dennett, Charlotte; Miller, Mark Crispin

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781504048392

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Military

Rating

4.5 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14