El Golpe

Rob McKenzie worked at the Twin City Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota as an assembler, electrician and full-time union representative. In 1998 he became President of his United Auto Workers branch, and later was elected to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Executive Board. Patrick Dunne is a graduate in History from the University of Cambridge, with a dissertation on ‘The AFL-CIO and the Coup against Allende’.

List of Photographs

Series Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Prologue

PART I U.S. LABOR’S COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA

1. The Birth of AIFLD and the Coup in British Guiana

2. Labor’s Foreign Policy Contested and the Military Takeover in Brazil

3. AIFLD and the Battle of Chile

4. El Salvador, Nicaragua, and AIFLD’s Agenda for Central America

PART II EL GOLPE

5. Mexico in the 1980s

6. U.S. Auto Companies Move South

7. The Coup

8. The Strike

PART III TRACKING THE ASSASSINS

9. Detroit

10. St. Paul

11. Washington, DC

Conclusion: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle

Appendix: On the Home “Front”

Photographs

Notes

Index