Neoliberalism, Democracy and “Private Diplomacy”

Rejane Carolina Hoeveler holds a Phd in Social History from the Graduate Program in History at Fluminense Federal University (UFF, Niterói, Brazil) and is a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

Acknowledgments IX

1 Introduction
 1 What Is Known about the Council of the Americas—and What This Book Adds
 2 How to Read This Book—a Proposed Periodization

2 The Origins of the Council of the Americas (1956–1969)
 1 Historical Context
 2 David Rockefeller and Latin America
 3 The Great Merger: the United Statesian Entrepreneurial Action on ALPRO and the Birth of the Council of the Americas
 4 The First CLA Actions in Latin America (April–October 1965)
 5 “Public Relations”
 6 “Community Relations”
 7 Creating a Relationship with the Strict State—United States
 8 Latin American Common Market
 9 The May of 1968 of the Council of the Americas
 10 The 1969 Rockefellers’ Report
 11 Philantropy as Investment and Preventive Counterrevolution: the Rockefellers’ Approach
 12 Capital and Nation-State: Entrepreneurial Ideologies Post- and Anti-1968

3 The Council of the Americas and the Dictatorial Cycle in Latin America (1969–1979)
 1 COA Central Characters: David Rockefellers’ Trusted Men, and CIA Agents
 2 The CLA within the Expanded State in the United States: Activity in Political Society and Civil Society
 3 Relations with US-Led Multilateral Organizations
 4 Campaign for Trade Liberalization
 5 Business Engagement and Pro-private Enterprise Advertising
 6 Espionage of the Student Movement and Critical Intellectuals in the United States
 7 The Internal Reorganization of the Council: Name, Statutes, Funding
 8 Articulation of Interests and Imperialism
 9 The May Report
 10 The Council of the Americas’ Battle against the Andean Code
 11 A Council for 1970s Latin America
 12 The Council of the Americas in the Height of the Corporate-Military Dictatorship in Brazil
 13 The Network Linked to the Council of the Americas in Post-1964 Coup Brazil: FAS, Ação, AMCHAMs, ACRJ, ex-IPES
 14 The Close Ties between the Council of the Americas and the Brazilian Dictatorial Regime
 15 João Paulo dos Reis Velloso at the Council of the Americas
 16 The CLA and the Origins of the Brazil-United States Business Council
 17 The Council of the Americas, Brazilian Business Leaders, and Political Opening
 18 Chile: the Multiple Forms of Political Intervention by the Council of the Americas before and after the 1973 Military Coup
 19 A Letter to Allende
 20 The Council of the Americas as Co-author of US Policy toward Chile
 21 David Rockefeller’s Confession
 22 The Council of the Americas’ Support for Pinochet’s Neoliberal Regime
 23 The Testimony of Enno Hobbing to the Church Committee (March 1973)
 24 Other Latin American Tentacles of the Council
 25 Carter Administration’s “Human Rights” Policy to the Displeasure of the Council of the Americas

4 Neoliberalization and Restricted Democratizations: the Council of the Americas in the Reagan and Bush Administrations (1981–2000)
 1 Ronald Reagan and the Council of Americas
 2 The “Caribbean Initiative” and the US Offensive in Central America
 3 The Council of the Americas and the CIA: Collaborations and Tensions
 4 Diplomatic Tensions: Argentina (Falklands) and Venezuela (Otto Reich)
 5 Debt, Dependence, and Neoliberalization of Latin America
 6 A Neoliberal Agenda by the Americas Society (1986)
 7 Brazil in the 1980s at the Council of the Americas
 8 Tensions and Comparisons
 9 Argentine Resistance
 10 Prescriptions for Restricted Democracy

5 The New Council of the Americas (2000–2019)
 1 Ensuring International Capitalist Property through Justice: the Defense of “Rule of Law” in Latin America
 2 The Definition of Rule of Law and Justice Systems
 3 Rule of Law, Pro-Market Reforms, and Democratization in Latin America
 4 The “Administration” of Justice
 5 Deregulation of Regulatory Frameworks
 6 Property Rights as a Precondition for Citizenship
 7 The Role of the Private Sector in Strengthening the Rule of Law
 8 The Council of the Americas and the Guidelines for “Hemispheric Security” (2004)
 9 A “Growth Agenda” for the Hemisphere (2009)
 10 The “New” Corporate Social Responsibility and the Council of the Americas’ Business Social Policies (2010–2015)
 11 Designing Neoliberal Public Policies: Labor, Health, and Education
 12 Disciplining Latin American Youth for the Labor Market
 13 Colombia and Peru
 14 Mexico and El Salvador
 15 Health
 16 Colombia and Mexico
 17 Security: the Case of El Salvador
 18 Education
 19 The Council of the Americas and the Latin American “Progressive” Governments
 20 Macri’s Argentina
 21 The Council of the Americas and the 2018 Elections in Brazil
 22 The Debate on Brazil’s 2018 Elections at the Council of the Americas: Convergences and Divergences among Organic Intellectuals
 23 The Council of the Americas and RenovaBR
 24 Between Liberal Morality and Market Pragmatism
 25 Sérgio Moro, the “Adult in the Room”
 26 Can Paulo Guedes Deliver? Market Skepticism

6 Final Considerations
References
Index

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