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Author Marchesi, Aldo, author.

Title Latin America's radical left : rebellion and Cold War in the global 1960s / Aldo Marchesi ; translated by Laura Perez Carrara
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages)
Series Cambridge Latin American studies
Cambridge Latin American studies.
Contents Introduction : Actions, ideas, and emotions in the construction of a transnational radicalism in the Southern Cone -- Revolution without the Sierra Maestra : the Tupamaros and the development of a repertoire of dissent for urbanized countries. Montevideo, 1962-1968 -- The subjective bonds of revolutionary solidarity. From Havana to Ñancahuazú (Bolivia), 1967 -- Dependence or armed struggle. Southern Cone intellectuals and militants questioning the legal path to socialism. Santiago de Chile, 1970-1973 -- '"The decisive round in Latin America's revolution" -- Bolivian, Chilean, and Uruguayan militants in Peronist Argentina. Buenos Aires, 1973-1976 -- Surviving democracy. The transition from armed struggle to human rights, 1981-1989 -- Conclusion : Revolutionaries without revolution
Summary This book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist militants and intellectuals in South America. This new generation, formed primarily by people who in the late 1960s were still under the age of thirty, challenged traditional politics and embraced organized violence and transnational strategies as the only ways of achieving social change in their countries during the Cold War. This lasted for more than a decade, beginning in Uruguay as a result of the rise of authoritarianism in Brazil and Argentina, and expanding with Che Guevara's Bolivia campaign in 1966. These coordination efforts reached their highest point in Buenos Aires from 1973 to 1976, until the military coup d'état in Argentina eliminated the last refuge for these groups. Aldo Marchesi offers the first in-depth, regional and transnational study of the militant left in Latin America during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index
Subject Youth -- Political activity -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Youth movements -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Student movements -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Political activists -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Political activists
Politics and government
Social change
Social conditions
Student movements
Youth movements
Youth -- Political activity
SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963
Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
Subject Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pérez Carrara, Laura, translator
ISBN 9781316822968
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