Mexico's Cold War : Cuba, the United States, and the legacy of the Mexican Revolution / Renata Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Renata, 1981- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.

Cambridge studies in US foreign relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Mexico--Foreign relations--1946-1970.

Mexico.

Mexico--Foreign relations--1970-1988.

Mexico--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Mexico.

United States.

Mexico--Foreign relations--Cuba.

Cuba--Foreign relations--Mexico.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure. Mexico did in fact suffer from the political and social turbulence that characterized the Cold War era in general, and by maintaining relations with Cuba it played a unique, and heretofore overlooked, role in the hemispheric Cold War. The Cuban Revolution was an especially destabilizing force in Mexico because Fidel Castro's dedication to many of the same nationalist and populist causes that the Mexican revolutionaries had originally pursued in the early twentieth century called attention to the fact that the government had abandoned those promises. A dynamic combination of domestic and international pressures thus initiated Mexico's Cold War and shaped its distinct evolution and outcomes.

Contents:

The institutionalized revolution

Responding to the Cuban Revolution

Mexico's Cold War heats up

Negotiating relations with Cuba and the United States

Insurgent Mexico

From Cold War to dirty war

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-35523-3

1-316-36163-2

1-316-36363-5

1-316-36463-1

1-316-36263-9

1-316-35823-2

1-139-94198-4