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Información de la obraThe Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World por Vincent Bevins (2020)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Vincent Bevins nos presenta la historia oculta de las masacres respaldadas por Estados Unidos en Indonesia, América Latina y otros lugares del mundo. En 1965, el Gobierno norteamericano ayudó al Ejército indonesio a asesinar a cerca de un millón de civiles inocentes, uno de los puntos de inflexión del siglo xx. Se trataba de eliminar al partido comunista más grande fuera de China y la Unión Soviética, pero sus estrategias inspirarían programas de terrorismo de Estado similares en países lejanos como Brasil y Chile. Estos hechos siguen ocultos hoy bajo un manto de silencio. En esta audaz y completa historia, Bevins se basa en una década de corresponsal en Asia y América Latina para los principales periódicos estadounidenses, en documentos recientemente desclasificados, así como en archivos y declaraciones de testigos presenciales recopilados en doce países, para revelar un legado impactante que se extiende por todo el mundo. Durante décadas se dio por sentado que algunos de los países más poblados del mundo adoptaron pacíficamente el sistema capitalista liderado por Estados Unidos, pero El método Yakarta demuestra que el despiadado exterminio de izquierdistas desarmados fue fundamental para la victoria de Washington en la Guerra Fría.
The so-called Long Peace after 1945 was covered in the blood of innocent people. Americans generally prefer to remember the Cold War as a mostly peaceful triumph punctuated by a handful of debacles, but for many of the people living in non-aligned and newly independent countries after WWII their experience of the Cold War was one of horror and devastation. Those nations that had the misfortune of being deemed important in the struggle against communism tended to suffer the most. Fanatical anticommunism claimed millions of victims during the Cold War. The atrocities committed against these people are often forgotten in the West, if they were ever known in the first place. That is true most of all in the United States, since it was our government that frequently encouraged and assisted local actors in their crimes against their own people. Distinciones
"In the 20th century, the U.S. government's effort to contain communism resulted in several disastrous conflicts: Vietnam, Cuba, Korea. Violence in Indonesia, and then interconnected slaughters across Latin America, arguably had a bigger hand in shaping today's world, but have been widely overlooked for one important reason: the secret CIA interventions were successful. In 1965, nearly one million unarmed civilians were killed in Indonesia with active U.S. assistance. This was the end of a decade-long attempt to stop the rise of the largest communist party outside the USSR and China. The resulting dictatorship buried the truth until this day, but the massacre shook the world. Left-wing movements radicalized, afraid of suffering the same fate as the unarmed Indonesians, and the world's committed anticommunists - especially in Brazil and Chile - learned from the mass murder, creating terror campaigns named after the Indonesian capital. In this bold and comprehensive new history, building on his reporting for the Washington Post in Southeast Asia, Vincent Bevins uses recently declassified documents, archival research, and countless of hours of interviews to reconstruct this chapter in world history and reveal a hidden legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been portrayed that much of the developing world passed naturally, and peacefully, into the US-led capitalist world system. But those who suffered through this process have long known differently"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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