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Connecting Cold War events to the region’s political polarizations, revolutionary mobilizations, draconian state repression, and brutal violence in almost every sphere, Pettinà demonstrates that Latin America’s Cold War was rarely cold. In the midst of the tumult, some countries showed resilience and capacity to bend the disruptive dynamics to their advantage. Mexico, for example, drew on a mix of nationalism and anticommunism, aided by the United States, to achieve strong economic growth and political stability. Cuba, in contrast, used Soviet protection to shield its revolution from the United States and to strengthen its capacity to project power in Latin America and beyond. Interweaving global and local developments along an insightful analytical frame, Pettinà reveals the distinct consequences of the Cold War in the Western Hemisphere.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781469669762","publication_date":"20221018","publisher":"The University of North Carolina Press","slug":"a-compact-history-of-latin-america-s-cold-war","subtitle":"","title":"A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Criticism","score":0.7323,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS041010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Cuban History","score":0.7303,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SOC008050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Studies","score":0.7254,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004100","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Criticism","score":0.7323,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS041010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Cuban History","score":0.7303,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SOC008050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Studies","score":0.7254,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS024000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Latin American History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POL011000","confidence_band":"high","label":"International Relations","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC008050","confidence_band":"high","label":"Caribbean & Latin American Studies","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Caribbean & Latin American Criticism","score":0.7323,"slug":"caribbean-latin-american-criticism"},{"label":"Cuban History","score":0.7303,"slug":"cuban-history"},{"label":"Caribbean & Latin American Studies","score":0.7254,"slug":"caribbean-latin-american-studies"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in Latin American political history during the Cold War"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["John Lewis Gaddis"],"book_id":"9780143038276","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780143038276.jpg?v=c887d3d3ccc0d44d","score":0.7007,"title":"The Cold War","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780143038276"},{"authors":["Doris Sommer"],"book_id":"9780822323440","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780822323440.jpg?v=476185868e6bc042","score":0.6966,"title":"The Places of History","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780822323440"},{"authors":["Diana Sorensen"],"book_id":"9780804756631","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780804756631.jpg?v=c8b998da99f722de","score":0.6822,"title":"A Turbulent Decade Remembered","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780804756631"},{"authors":["Aviva Chomsky","Barry Carr","Alfredo Prieto","Pamela Maria Smorkaloff"],"book_id":"9781478003939","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781478003939.jpg?v=2ff2c6905351faf3","score":0.6816,"title":"The Cuba Reader","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781478003939"},{"authors":["Clifford L. 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