![]() These palm-fringed sands take on a darker aspect when one learns of their prominent roles in a transcontinental web of political intrigue, mass killings and the assertion of US hegemony, with Seminyak playing host to mass graves and Copacabana a recurring location for far-right agitation. However, The Jakarta Method, the new book by Vincent Bevins, might just change that. 2020.Īsk most people what they associate with Copacabana in Brazil and Seminyak in Bali, and it’s likely to be a tropical idyll. The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World. This is a well-researched, tightly written and emotionally affecting book, writes Thomas Kingston. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins explores the US role in the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-66 as well as military coups in Latin America to show the consequences of Washington’s Cold War interventions in the present day. ![]()
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