This collection chronicles the development of U.S. policy as it attempts to deal with the tragedy experienced in Argentina during the critical, formative period of the late 1970s.
This collection brings to the fore a unique selection of primary source documents illustrating U.S.-Argentina relations during the late 1970s, when the Argentine armed forces took control of the country. During this period, the U.S. developed a foreign policy premised on promoting respect for human rights, and the Argentine military government implemented a counterinsurgency policy that emphasized suppressing dissent at all costs, thus propelling the two countries onto a collision course over human rights.
This collection chronicles CIA covert operations, the coup d'état, Pinochet's repression, international terrorism, diplomacy leading to a return to democracy, and the pursuit of justice for human rights victims of the military regime.
This collection presents 2,842 once-secret, U.S. records--among them hundreds of declassified Top Secret CIA operational memos, cables, and reports--as well as records from the archives and courts of other nations tracing the U.S. role in Chile from the Nixon administration's covert efforts to block the election and inauguration of Salvador Allende, through the military takeover of September 11, 1973, to the end of Gen. Augusto Pinochet''s dictatorship and his eventual arrest in London.
This set covers over 60 years of U.S. involvement, from the early days of the Cold War through the deluge of recent political scandals. It features intelligence assessments and detailed dossiers on Colombian political and military figures.
The National Security Archive's Colombia collection traces 60 years of U.S. policy toward its most important Andean ally throughout a period of sustained conflict, political corruption and civil unrest. The approximately 2,000 documents from the State Department, Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, and other agencies focus on U.S. efforts during the Cold War, the drug war, the rise of paramilitary violence in the 1990s, and the Plan Colombia and beyond.
Includes over 1700 documents on top secret policy making toward Cuba, revealing one of the most dramatic and colorful histories of back-channel attempts at conflict resolution and engagement in the annals of modern U.S. foreign policy.
This collection of 1,704 primary-source documents on more than 50 years of dialogue between the U.S. and Cuba reveals the hidden history of back-channel diplomacy aimed at seeking common ground amid the perpetual antagonism of relations between Washington and Havana. It documents the little-known efforts of Fidel Castro and 11 U.S. presidents to use behind-the-scenes communications to resolve crises, collaborate on mutual interests, and even, at times, to seek a rapprochement, which finally came to fruition during the Obama administration.
This set presents an integrated, comprehensive record of U.S. decision making during the most dangerous U.S.-Soviet confrontation in the nuclear era. It reprints an organized, cataloged, and fully indexed record of the event.
Perhaps the most critical and dangerous confrontation of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis is chronicled in this collection of more than 15,000 pages of rarely seen documentation from the highest levels of government. Topics include the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, the U.S. secret war against Castro, the first intelligence reports pointing to the development of Soviet missiles in Cuba, and the highly classified correspondence between Kennedy and Khrushchev.
U.S. Hispanic Newsstream offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from U.S. publishers in both Spanish and English
U.S. Hispanic Newsstream offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from U.S. publishers in both Spanish and English including El Diario/La Prensa (New York City), La Opinión (Los Angeles), La Prensa (San Antonio) and Extra (Chicago). All of the content in ProQuest U.S. Hispanic Newsstream is available on the ProQuest platform and is cross searchable with other ProQuest databases.
