Hostile acts : U.S. policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s /
To Martha Honey, "hostile acts" is shorthand for the nature of U.S. policies in Costa Rica during the last decade. In this book she combines extensive academic research with her firsthand experiences as a journalist covering major portions of the Iran-contra scandal to weave together the s...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
©1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Coming to Costa Rica
- The road from La Penca
- AID's privatization solution
- Privatization of the banks
- The parallel state
- Health care in the 1980s: making chocolate with only a little cocoa
- Nontraditional agricultural exports: an agriculture of desserts
- The southern front: "Honduras south"
- The southern front: its CIA network, surrogates, and collaborators
- Militarizing Costa Rica
- Unconventional warfare: La Penca, drugs, and other dirty tricks
- The Santa Elena airstrip and the opening of the southern front
- The success of Washington's "Project pastora" and the dismantling of the southern front
- Arias: making peace.