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Book SynopsisTrue crime meets political thriller in an explosive exposé of US meddling in Mexico
Trade Review'An impressive piece of sleuthing. Mckenzie's dogged search for answers shines a spotlight on AIFLD with its CIA links.'
-- Anthony Carew, author of 'American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Detente'
'An in-depth study of the rot existing within the foreign policy leadership of the AFL-CIO. Expunging this rot is essential to the revitalization of the US labor movement'
-- Kim Scipes, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University Northwest
Table of ContentsList of Photographs
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Prologue
PART I U.S. LABOR’S COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA
1. The Birth of AIFLD and the Coup in British Guiana
2. Labor’s Foreign Policy Contested and the Military Takeover in Brazil
3. AIFLD and the Battle of Chile
4. El Salvador, Nicaragua, and AIFLD’s Agenda for Central America
PART II EL GOLPE
5. Mexico in the 1980s
6. U.S. Auto Companies Move South
7. The Coup
8. The Strike
PART III TRACKING THE ASSASSINS
9. Detroit
10. St. Paul
11. Washington, DC
Conclusion: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle
Appendix: On the Home “Front”
Photographs
Notes
Index
