The Cia in Ecuador

The Cia in Ecuador is a welcome remedy to the dearth of studies on the history of U.S.-Ecuadorian relations. Marc Becker's source base, in both Ecuador and the United States, is very impressive. His argument is cogent and well supported. Even as radical political-social movements were more powerful in the Andean nations of Bolivia and Chile, the left-wing political-social movements in Ecuador were powerful enough to lay the groundwork for more robust social-political movements in the 1960s. (Chile saw the Marxist Salvador Allende run for president in 1952; although he lost, his movement showed itself to be a significant left-wing movement. That same year Bolivia erupted in revolution.) And the 1950s leftist, Ecuadorian social-political movements garnered a great deal of attention from the Central Intelligence Agency. Even as Ecuador posed a minimal security and economic threat to the United States in the early Cold War, U.S. intelligence agents thought they had to have their finger on the pulse of the more prominent left-wing groups in Ecuador, in particular the Ecuadorian Communist party

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