Mexico's Cold War
Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution

This book examines Mexico's unique foreign relations with the US and Cuba during the Cold War.

Renata Keller (Author)

9781107079588, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 July 2015

296 pages, 9 b/w illus. 1 map 2 tables
22.9 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.54 kg

'Keller gives a clear and concise detailing of a tremendously complicated and multifaceted topic that complicates the internal history of the Cold War in Mexico.' Courtney Kennedy, H-LatAm

This book is a history of the Cold War in Mexico, and Mexico in the Cold War. Renata Keller draws on declassified Mexican and US intelligence sources and Cuban diplomatic records to challenge earlier interpretations that depicted Mexico as a peaceful haven and a weak neighbor forced to submit to US pressure. Mexico did in fact suffer from the political and social turbulence that characterized the Cold War era in general, and by maintaining relations with Cuba it played a unique, and heretofore overlooked, role in the hemispheric Cold War. The Cuban Revolution was an especially destabilizing force in Mexico because Fidel Castro's dedication to many of the same nationalist and populist causes that the Mexican revolutionaries had originally pursued in the early twentieth century called attention to the fact that the government had abandoned those promises. A dynamic combination of domestic and international pressures thus initiated Mexico's Cold War and shaped its distinct evolution and outcomes.

Introduction
1. The institutionalized revolution
2. Responding to the Cuban Revolution
3. Mexico's Cold War heats up
4. Negotiating relations with Cuba and the United States
5. Insurgent Mexico
6. From Cold War to Dirty War
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International relations [JPS], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], History of the Americas [HBJK]