Franklin Roosevelt's good neighbour policy, coming in the wake of decades of US intervention in Central America, and following a lengthy US military occupation of Nicaragua, marked a significant shift in US policy towards Latin America. Its basic tenets were non-intervention and non-interference. The period was exceptionally significant for Nicaragua, as it witnessed the creation and consolidation of the Somoza government - one of Latin America's most enduring authoritarian regimes, which endured from 1936 to the sandinista revolution in 1979. Addressing the political, diplomatic, military, commercial, financial, and intelligence components of US policy, Andrew Crawley analyses the background to the US military withdrawal from Nicaragua in the early 1930s. He assesses the motivations for Washington's policy of disengagement from international affairs, and the creation of the Nicaraguan National Guard, as well as debating US accountability for what the Guard became under Somoza. Crawley effectively challenges the conventional theory that Somoza's regime was a creature of Washington. It was US non-intervention, not interference, he argues, that enhanced the prospects of tyranny.

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	280
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	OUP Oxford
Fecha de Publicación	2007-08-23
Dimensiones	8.69" x 6.66" x 0.9" pulgadas
Serie	Oxford Historical Monographs
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Años 1930, Años 1940, Siglo 20, 1900-1949, América Latina