{"product_id":"critical-romance-jean-pierre-mileur-9780299124144","title":"Critical Romance","description":"This is a stellar, courageous work of investigative journalism and historical scholarship grippingly told, meticulously documented, and doggedly pursued over thirty years. Tracking a Cold War confrontation that has compromised the national interests of both Mexico and the United States, \u003ci\u003eEclipse of the Assassins\u003c\/i\u003e exposes deadly connections among historical events usually remembered as isolated episodes.\u003cbr\u003e Authors Russell and Sylvia Bartley shed new light on the U.S.-instigated dirty wars that ravaged all of Latin America in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s and reveal for the first time how Mexican officials colluded with Washington in its proxy \u003ci\u003econtra\u003c\/i\u003e war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. They draw together the strands of a clandestine web linking: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe assassination of prominent Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe torture and murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe Iran-Contra scandal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea major DEA sting against key CIA-linked Bolivian, Panamanian, and Mexican drug traffickers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCIA-orchestrated suppression of investigative journalists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecriminal collusion of successive U.S. and Mexican administrations that has resulted in the unprecedented power of drug kingpins like El Chapo Guzman.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ci\u003eEclipse of the Assassins\u003c\/i\u003e places a major political crime the murder of Buendia in its full historical perspective and shows how the dirty wars of the past are still claiming victims today. \u003cbr\u003e Best books for public \u0026amp; secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Pierre Mileur,Sylvia Erickson Bartley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299124142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299124144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Jean-Pierre Mileur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965127639295,"sku":"9780299124144","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eda403c7-fb1a-46e0-971e-6635e055dae8.jpg?v=1767278580","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/critical-romance-jean-pierre-mileur-9780299124144","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}