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MILITARY AID OR KILLER DEAL: U.S. WEAPONS TRADE AND MILITARY TRAINING IN THE CARIBBEAN, 1790 - 2001

Guest Speaker: Dr. Humberto Garcia Muñiz

 

Dr. Humberto Garcia Muñiz is a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Estudios del Caribe at the University of Puerto Rico and is visiting this semester at Rutgers University. Dr. Garcia Muņiz is an historian and one of the most renowned military experts on the Caribbean. His book, La estrategia de Estados Unidos y la militarizacion del Caribe, is a classic for those who study the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean and he has published extensively on that subject in journals in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Puerto Rico. This CentroTalk consists of material presented more extensively in his new book, La Ayuda Militar Como Negocio-Estados Unidos y el Caribe, 1790-2001, which he co-authored with Gloria Vega RodrÍguez.

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AN INTRODUCTION by Felix Matos-Rodriguez, Director, CENTRO (1.8 mb)
THE MILITARY AND POLICE IN THE CARIBBEAN (850 k)
U.S. CREATED THE ARMIES OF CUBA, HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (2 mb)
TABLE OF DICTATORSHIPS (1.5 mb)
EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES (1.5 mb)
THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM IS ALIVE AND WELL (1.2 mb)
OPERATION MONGOOSE (1.6 mb)
MILITARY DESTABILIZATION --Jamaica Under Manley (2.4 mb)
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND THE SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS (2.3 mb)
THE POU BROTHERS, GRADUATES OF THE SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS (1.7 mb)
THE NIXON DOCTRINE AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (1.7 mb)
REGIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM (2.5 mb)
MILITARY BUILD-UP AND WEAKENING ECONOMIES CAUSE INSTABILTY (2.3 mb)
INTEROPERABILITY -- Post Cold War U.S. Military Policy In The Caribbean (1.9 mb)
DANGER TO DEMOCRACY (2.4 mb)
NEW PROGRAM --Training Civilians (1.8 mb)


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