US-Guatemalan Petro-Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
The Blackest Gold
$170.54
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2027
Summary
Between 1975 and 1983, Guatemala’s hydrocarbon development became deeply entangled with state-led violence during the country’s civil war. The United States’ efforts to secure favorable access to Guatemalan oil intersected with—and in some cases redirected—the trajectory of U.S. foreign assistance and human rights policy.
In the first book on U.S.-Guatemalan hydrocarbon relations, Richard M. Balzano exposes the arms-for-aid diplomacy and duplicity in the Reagan admini…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798216396956 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Richard M. Balzano |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Richard M. Balzano
Richard M. Balzano is the President of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. He lectures in History and Political Science at Springfield College and teaches History at Western New Mexico University. His research examines U.S. foreign policy and Latin America’s Cold War through the intersecting lenses of human rights, foreign aid and sanctions, the politics of information and narrative management, and resource diplomacy, extractive imperialism, and the political economy of international power and intervention. He writes a bi-weekly political column for the New Hampshire Gazette.
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