The CIA coined the term “blowback” in the 1950s to refer to unintended and unwanted side effects of covert operations. We study the side effects of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America during the Cold War. While the US may have been acting in its perceived foreign policy self-...

The CIA intervened regularly in Latin America politics during the Cold War, in some cases going asfar as bringing about regime change. While these interventions may have been considered successful from the US perspective, it is less clear what the economic and political consequences were for the...

The CIA intervened regularly in Latin America politics during the Cold War, in some cases going as far as bringing about regime change. We study the economic, political, and civil society effects of CIA-sponsored regime change in five Latin American countries and find that these actions caused...