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- Title
Greening the Counterinsurgency: The Deceptive Effects of Guatemala's Rural Development Plan of 1970.
- Authors
Copeland, Nicholas
- Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of USAID's 1970 Rural Development Plan (RDP) for Guatemala in normalizing US military support for the Guatemalan government despite concerns about excessive state violence in the late 1960s. I argue that the RDP presented a depoliticized vision of Guatemala's agrarian problem and generated optimism that this problem could be resolved through market mechanisms and within the existing social order. Rather than promoting prosperity and stability, the RDP framed state terror as a temporary exception, and helped set the stage for genocide in the 1980s. This highlights complicities between discourses of development and political violence.
- Subjects
GUATEMALA; LATIN America; AMERICAN military assistance; RURAL development; GUATEMALAN politics &; government, 1945-1985; FOREIGN aid (American); UNITED States. Agency for International Development; FOREIGN relations of the United States, 1969-1974; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Development & Change, 2012, Vol 43, Issue 4, p975
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01783.x