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War by Open Secret: Making and Unmaking the News in Honduras, 1979-93- [electronic resource]
War by Open Secret: Making and Unmaking the News in Honduras, 1979-93- [electronic resource]
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문(국외)
- 자관 청구기호
- 기본표목-개인명
- 표제와 책임표시사항
- War by Open Secret: Making and Unmaking the News in Honduras, 1979-93 - [electronic resource] / Daniel Alexander Beckman
- 발행, 배포, 간사 사항
- 발행, 배포, 간사 사항
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(p.755 )
- 일반주기
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
- 일반주기
- Includes supplementary digital materials.
- 일반주기
- Advisor: Derby, Robin.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2023.
- 이용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 요약 등 주기
- 요약The scandal termed "Iran-Contra" has already been analyzed-as a Presidential crisis, as a media event, as a new stage in planning and operating covert wars independent from even President Ronald Reagan. But this literature draws heavily on documents from the U.S. government: this dissertation examines years' worth of collected news articles from Honduras, and shows the ways in which the planners of the covert war against Nicaragua faced a constant series of potential exposures. The Reagan Administration had made sure that the Honduran military and state had the media power to help deny the Contra War for a decade-letting Tegucigalpa outright blackmail Washington. The planners of the counterrevolution had limited success using Red-baiting against witnesses or journalists. However, they were able to deploy doctors against doctors, or to outright substitute Catholic clergy with Evangelical fundamentalists: only Honduran doctors or theologians were able to manipulate the standards of evidence and undermine the professionals who "warranted" stories about the war. CIA Director Bill Casey had arranged for the Nicaraguan counterguerrillas to be operated and funded separately from any formal CIA structure, trading Iranian missiles and South American cocaine to fund explicit counterrevolutionary terrorism. The Reagan Administration acquired new levels of media power and secret warfare-but the citizens of Honduras or the United States were not helpless in the face of a lawless conspiracy at the peak of state power. Like many "partner states" in previous covert wars, Honduras was crucial to the covert narco-paramilitary operation against its neighbors El Salvador and Nicaragua, but not itself in any state of combat. I argue that using Honduran sources exposes the numerous different times that the war was vulnerable to civilians-from illiterate Honduran campesinos to Iowan church volunteers or investigative journalists. Tracing each story from its origins in Honduras reveals where U.S. state power was most vulnerable to exposure and disruption.
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- 주제명부출표목-일반주제명
- 비통제 색인어
- 비통제 색인어
- 비통제 색인어
- 비통제 색인어
- 부출표목-단체명
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2023.
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