Paraguay and the United States: Distant Allies (United States and the Americas)

350 Pages·2007·1.65 MB·English

by  Frank O. Mora

The United States and the Americas
Lester D. Langley, General Editor
This series is dedicated to a broader
understanding of the political, economic, and
especially cultural forces and issues that have
shaped the Western hemispheric experience—
its governments and its peoples. Individual
volumes assess relations between the United
States and its neighbors to the south and north:
Mexico, Central America, Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama,
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, and Canada.
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The United States and the Americas
Paraguay and the United States
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Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney
Paraguay and
the United States:
Distant Allies
The University of Georgia Press
Athens and London
© 2007 by the University of Georgia Press
Athens, Georgia 30602
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mora, Frank O.
Paraguay and the United States : distant allies /
Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney.
p. cm. — (The United States and the Americas)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-8203-2467-8 (hardcover : alk paper)
isbn-10: 0-8203-2467-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn-13: 978-0-8203-2932-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-8203-2932-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. United States—Foreign relations—Paraguay.
2. Paraguay—Foreign relations—United States.
3. Americans—Paraguay—History.
4. Paraguay—History—19th century.
5. Paraguay—History—20th century.
I. Cooney, Jerry W. (Jerry Wilson), 1940– II. Title.
e183.8.p3m67 2007
327.730892—dc22 2007005843
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
Nivardo Mora,
One can only aspire to be half the man,
husband, and father
My nephew,
Jeffery Kieth Hergert,
1955–2005
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. A Troubled Beginning 5
2. A Distant Relationship 38
3. War and the Search for Peace 66
4. Civil War and Hemispheric Security, 1939–1954 92
5. Our Man in Asunción: Anticommunism, 1954–1961 125
6. Alliance for Progress and the Ricord Affair,
1962–1976 160
7. Human Rights and “Democracy by Pressure,”
1977–1989 193
8. Safeguarding Democracy in Paraguay, 1989–2000 231
9. Epilogue 260
Notes 267
Bibliographical Essay 301
Index 319