Fate of the Americas
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Argentina
arms control
Author_Renata Keller
blockade
Bolivia
Brazil
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Che Guevara
Chile
Cold War
Colombia
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Revolution
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Fidel Castro
Guatemala
hemispheric defense
John F. Kennedy
Latin America
Mexico
Nicaragua
Nikita Khrushchev
nuclear missiles
nuclear war
nuclear weapons
Organization of American States
Panama
Panama Canal
protests
quarantine
security
solidarity
sovereignty
Soviet Union
United Nations
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
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- ISBN 9781469689432
- Dimensions: 25 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground—a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout Latin America. This first hemispheric examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how leaders and ordinary citizens throughout the region experienced it, revealing that, had the missiles been activated, millions of people across Latin America would have been at grave risk.
Traversing the region from the Southern Cone to Central America, Renata Keller describes the deadly riots that shook Bolivia when news of the Cuban Missile Crisis broke, the naval quarantine that members of Argentina’s armed forces formed around Cuba, the pro-Castro demonstrations organized by Nicaraguan students, and much more. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources from around the hemisphere and world, The Fate of the Americas demonstrates that even at the brink of destruction, Latin Americans played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.
Traversing the region from the Southern Cone to Central America, Renata Keller describes the deadly riots that shook Bolivia when news of the Cuban Missile Crisis broke, the naval quarantine that members of Argentina’s armed forces formed around Cuba, the pro-Castro demonstrations organized by Nicaraguan students, and much more. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources from around the hemisphere and world, The Fate of the Americas demonstrates that even at the brink of destruction, Latin Americans played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.
Renata Keller is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
