Fernando Purcell is Professor of History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Davis, USA, and is the author of several books on US-Latin American relations.

• 1. Introduction: Peace Corp Volunteers as Intermediary Agents in the Global War on Poverty.- 2. Learning to Learn: Community-Development Training during the 1960s.- 3. Confront Poverty Beforehand.- 4. South America's Fertile but Different World.- 5. Difficulties and Frustrations on the Ground.- 6. Volunteers in the Middle of Cold War Ideological Struggles.- 7. Epilogue: De-centering Cold War Narratives Using Peace Corp Volunteer´s Accounts.

Fernando Purcell is Professor of History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Davis, USA, and is the author of several books on US-Latin American relations.

• 1. Introduction: Peace Corp Volunteers as Intermediary Agents in the Global War on Poverty.- 2. Learning to Learn: Community-Development Training during the 1960s.- 3. Confront Poverty Beforehand.- 4. South America's Fertile but Different World.- 5. Difficulties and Frustrations on the Ground.- 6. Volunteers in the Middle of Cold War Ideological Struggles.- 7. Epilogue: De-centering Cold War Narratives Using Peace Corp Volunteer´s Accounts.

Fernando Purcell is Professor of History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Davis, USA, and is the author of several books on US-Latin American relations.

• 1. Introduction: Peace Corp Volunteers as Intermediary Agents in the Global War on Poverty.- 2. Learning to Learn: Community-Development Training during the 1960s.- 3. Confront Poverty Beforehand.- 4. South America's Fertile but Different World.- 5. Difficulties and Frustrations on the Ground.- 6. Volunteers in the Middle of Cold War Ideological Struggles.- 7. Epilogue: De-centering Cold War Narratives Using Peace Corp Volunteer´s Accounts.