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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’.

'An impressive piece of sleuthing. Mckenzie's dogged search for answers shines a spotlight on AIFLD with its CIA links.'

• List of Photographs Series Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue PART I U.S. LABOR’S COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA1. 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 GOLPE5. Mexico in the 1980s 6. U.S. Auto Companies Move South 7. The Coup 8. The Strike PART III TRACKING THE ASSASSINS9. Detroit 10. St. Paul 11. Washington, DC Conclusion: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle Appendix: On the Home “Front” Photographs Notes Index