{"product_id":"9780299306434","title":"Eclipse of the Assassins: The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía","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 \u003cli\u003ethe assassination of prominent Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe torture and murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe Iran-Contra scandal\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ea major DEA sting against key CIA-linked Bolivian, Panamanian, and Mexican drug traffickers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCIA-orchestrated suppression of investigative journalists\u003c\/li\u003e \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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Best books for public \u0026amp; secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083134189808,"sku":"9780299306434","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780299306434_p0.jpg?v=1763683001","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780299306434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}