Cold War Latin America w/ Alexander Aviña
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Rev Left Radio fan favorite Professor Alexander Aviña to talk about Latin America in the Cold War period. While we in the global north tend to think of the Cold War period as being typified by tensions in Eastern Europe, Latin America was the playground for much of the US's conflicts of the era.
Alexander Aviña is historian at Arizona State University, and is author of the book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrilla in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014, https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/ ). He has also had articles published in places like NACLA Report of the Americas and the Journal of Iberian and Latin America Research, and has made numerous interview appearances, including several episodes of Revolutionary Left Radio. You can follow him on twitter @Alexander_Avina.
Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at guerrillahistorypod@gmail.com.
Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, |
| 0:39.6 | Henry Huckamacki, joined by my co-hosts Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the |
| 0:44.9 | School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? |
| 0:49.9 | I'm great. Great to be with you, Henry. It's always nice to see you as well. And Brett O'Shea, |
| 0:55.8 | host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing? |
| 1:01.6 | Hello, I'm doing great. |
| 1:03.1 | Yeah, today we've got a great interview coming up with somebody who we're all quite familiar with |
| 1:08.7 | at this point, but we will be making his debut on |
| 1:11.5 | Gorilla history, Professor Alexander Avina. Dr. Avina is a historian at Arizona State University |
| 1:19.2 | and is the author of the book Spectres of Revolution, Peasant Gorillas in the Cold War, |
| 1:24.8 | Mexican Countryside from Oxford University Press in 2014. |
| 1:29.1 | Our topic is going to be Latin America and the Cold War. |
| 1:33.1 | And if that seems broad to you, listeners, it's because it is broad. |
| 1:37.3 | We're going to be taking very much the same track with this episode as we did with our |
| 1:41.5 | introduction to African resistance and revolutions episode, where it's |
| 1:45.8 | going to be a survey of the region as a whole and the time period as a whole so that we can use |
| 1:50.9 | it as a reference point to getting into individual movements and individual resistance leaders, |
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