America's backyard : the United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror / Grace Livingstone.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.

Introduction -- The Monroe Doctrine to the Second World War -- The Cold War : the Guatemalan coup and the Cuban Revolution -- The Alliance for Progress -- The military governments of the 1970s -- Reagan and the Central American tragedy -- The end of the Cold War, 1989-2001 -- George W. Bush and the 'War on Terror' -- Why US drugs policy doesn't work -- Money, multinationals and misery -- Coca-Cola, cartoons and caricature -- Postscript -- Appendix A: US military interventions in Latin America in the twentieth century -- Appendix B: Latin American dictators who took training courses at the School of the Americas.