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In less than five years from the WWII “Good Neighbor” Alliance, U.S. security policy converted Latin America into the principal battlefield of the U.S. Cold War against the Soviet Union. This half semester seminar course will get students debating how Latin America, at first considered a region of little threat to U.S. security interests, becomes the object of the full gamut of U.S. security instruments: covert operations, military intervention, support for military coups, economic sanctions, and diplomatic isolation waged in the name of saving Latin America from communism and preventing a second Cuba. Students will debate using readings and original source materials the U.S. interventions in Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs, Chile, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Nicaragua as well as Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Students will draw lessons on the current legacy of the Cold War in the region and the application of Cold War instruments and approaches to the present U.S. drug war. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>