{"title":"Russell H. Bartley","description":"Russell H. Bartley is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He worked as a correspondent for the Mexico City daily newspaper unomásuno from 1980 to 1989. Sylvia Erickson Bartley is a historian, historical records archivist, and photographer. She worked as a photojournalist for unomásuno from 1984 to 1989.","products":[{"product_id":"eclipse-of-the-assassins-the-cia-imperial-politics-and-the-slaying-of-mexican-journalist-manuel-buendia-hardcover","title":"Eclipse of the Assassins: The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendia - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe assassination of prominent Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía\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\" Guzmán.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ci\u003eEclipse of the Assassins\u003c\/i\u003e places a major political crime--the murder of Buendía--in its full historical perspective and shows how the dirty wars of the past are still claiming victims today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Best books for public \u0026amp; secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365888491743,"sku":"9780299306403","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/INbZHU1DAb9780299306403.webp?v=1789073593"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/russell-h-bartley.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}