Which borders have not yet been crossed? A supplement to Gilbert Joseph’s historiographical balance of the Latin American Cold War

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Eugenia Palieraki, Alfredo Riquelme, Ernesto Bohoslavsky, and Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta for their advice and suggestions.

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Notes

¹ Gilbert M. Joseph, “Border Crossings and the Remaking of Latin American Cold War Studies,” Cold War History (published online 14 March 2019): 141–70. For a complete picture of the advances in the field of the Latin American Cold War, this article should be read as a continuation of the one published 12 years earlier: Gilbert M. Joseph, “What We Now Know and Should Know: Bringing Latin America More Meaningfully into Cold War Studies,” in In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War, ed. Daniela Spenser and Gilbert M. Joseph (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).

² Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds., A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010).

³ Moreover, of these 22 works, only one is analysed in somewhat greater detail: the volume edited by Benedetta Calandra and Marina Franco, La guerra fría cultural en América Latina: desafíos y límites para una nueva mirada de las relaciones interamericanas (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2012).

⁴ Aldo Marchesi, “Escribiendo la Guerra Fría latinoamericana: entre el Sur ‘local’ y el Norte ‘global,’” Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro) 30:60 (April 2017): 187–202.

⁵ Horacio Tarcus, Marx en la Argentina: sus primeros lectores obreros, intelectuales y científicos (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2013); Horacio Tarcus, La biblia del proletariado. Traductores y editores de El Capital (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2018); Adriana Petra, Intelectuales y cultura comunista: itinerarios, problemas y debates en la Argentina de posguerra (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017); Sergio Grez Toso, Historia del comunismo en Chile: la era de Recabarren, 1912–1924 (Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2011); Gerardo Leibner, Camaradas y compañeros: una historia política y social de los comunistas del Uruguay (Montevideo: Trilce, 2011); Jaime Massardo, La formación del imaginario político de Luis Emilio Recabarren: contribución al estudio crítico de la cultura política de las clases subalternas de la sociedad chilena (Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2008); Olga Ulianova and Alfredo Riquelme Segovia, eds., Chile en los archivos soviéticos 1922–1991, 3 v. (Santiago: DIBAM – Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2005, 2009, and 2017).

⁶ João Fábio Bertonha and Ernesto Lázaro Bohoslavsky, eds., Circule por la derecha: percepciones, redes y contactos entre las derechas sudamericanas, 1917–1973 (Los Polvorines, Provincia de Buenos Aires: Ediciones UNGS, 2016); and Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta, and Stéphane Boisard, eds., Pensar as direitas na América Latina (Sao Paulo: Alameda Casa Editorial, 2019).

⁷ Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta, Em guarda contra o perigo vermelho: o anticomunismo no Brasil, 1917–1964 (São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva: FAPESP, 2002).

⁸ Alessandro Santoni, El comunismo italiano y la vía chilena. Los orígenes de un mito político (Santiago: RIL editores, 2011); Fernando Camacho Padilla, Suecia por Chile: una historia visual del exilio y la solidaridad, 1970–1990 (Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2009).

⁹ Eugenia Palieraki, “Broadening the Field of Perception and Struggle: Chilean Political Exiles in Algeria and Third World Cosmopolitanism,” African Identities 16, no. 2 (April 2018): 205–18.

¹⁰ That is precisely one of the main arguments of a book mentioned but not analysed by Joseph: Alfredo Riquelme and Tanya Harmer, eds., Chile y la guerra fría global (Santiago: RIL Editores – Instituto de Historia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2014).

¹¹ On the need to link ‘recent history’ to studies of the Cold War in Latin America, see Marchesi, “Escribiendo la Guerra Fría latinoamericana.”

¹² Vanni Pettinà, Historia mínima de la Guerra Fría en América Latina (Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México, 2018).

¹³ Tanya Harmer, Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War, The New Cold War History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011); Aldo Marchesi, Latin America’s Radical Left: Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960s (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018); Ernesto Semán, Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s International Labour Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017).

¹⁴ For more examples in this vein, see the special issue edited by Vanni Pettinà and José Antonio Sánchez Román, particularly its introductory text: “Beyond US Hegemony: The Shaping of the Cold War in Latin America,” Culture & History Digital Journal 4, no. 1 (June 2015): 1–4; on this topic, see also Tanya Harmer, “The Cold War in Latin America,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War, ed. Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle (London: New York: Routledge, 2014), 133–48.

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Marcelo Casals

Marcelo Casals holds a PhD in Latin American and Caribbean History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Assistant Professor at the Centro de Estudios de Historia Política, Escuela de Gobierno, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile). His most recent book, published in 2016, is La creación de la amenaza roja. Del surgimiento del anticomunismo en Chile a la “campaña del terror” de 1964.