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The United States' secret record of financial, political, and social exploitation of Latin America in the middle-20th century is exposed in this "blistering exposé", with a fresh advantages by the authors (Publishers Weekly). What occurred when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett inform the storyplot of the 40-calendar year plan led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to determine a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice Chief executive Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive government authorities, devastate the Amazon rainfall forest, and destabilize local economies - all in the name of anti-Communism. In the mean time, Townsend and his military of missionaries sought to undermine the notion systems of the region's indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their blended efforts could have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, claim the authors of this "well-documented" (Los Angeles Times) publication - the product of 18 many years of research - which famous intensifying historian Howard Zinn called "a fantastic little bit of investigative record. Its note is powerful, its data frustrating and impressive."
