This book seeks to address US public diplomacy strategies in Latin America, of particular importance during the 1960s when the leadership of the United States had been questioned after the Cuban revolution.
Francisco Rodríguez-Jiménez is currently working at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais in Lisbon and was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and Fulbrighter at American University and George Washington University. His research centers around the so-called Cultural Cold War. Among his latest publications: Trump. Historia de una presidencia singular (2022).
Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla is Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC). He has worked on Euro-Atlantic relations during the Cold War, especially public diplomacy and cultural, educational, and scientific transfers. Among his recent publications: Teaching Modernization. Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War (2020).
Benedetta Calandra is Associate Professor of History of the Americas at the University of Bergamo. Her main research interests focus on the politics of memory and exile in Latin America and Inter-American cultural Cold War. Among her recent publications: Cultural Philanthropy and Political Exile. The Ford Foundation Between Argentina and the United States (2019).
