"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended." — A. J. Dunar, Choice
“Mark Becker’s book considerably advances our knowledge of FBI activities in Latin America, a subject crying out for more systematic research.” — Philip Chrimes, International Affairs
"Becker has done extensive research for this book, and his close examination and analysis of the documentary record left behind by FBI, CIA and State Department surveillance of Ecuador are both apparent and appreciated. . . . This is an interesting, well-researched text." — Courteney J. O'Connor, London School of Economics Review of Books
"An exciting and ambitious effort. Students of Ecuador (and Latin America, more broadly) and US foreign policy, as well as policing and intelligence, will learn a great deal from this book." — Stuart Schrader, Radical Americas
"Sourcing is excellent...this book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." — Douglas M. Charles, Journal of American History
"Highly original and well-researched account . . . An interesting and detailed history of the mid-century Ecuadorian left." — Max Paul Friedman, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"This book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." — Douglas M. Charles, Journal of American History
"A model for the innovative use of primary sources to explore multiple perspectives in history. . . . Becker deftly balances background information with detail and analysis, making the work useful and readable for scholars from many different fields. . . . Essential reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century Ecuadorian history, the history of the Latin American left, or the history of US surveillance in Latin America." — Erin E. O'Connor, The Americas
"A valuable addition to the historical literature on US–Latin American relations at mid-century and on modern Ecuador. . . . Becker has helpfully demonstrated the importance of a particular set of sources, while shedding light on both the FBI’s brief foray into foreign intelligence work and a pivotal moment in Ecuador’s twentieth-century history." — Halbert Jones, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
"Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America . . . .Becker’s work is an important contribution to the historiography of U.S.-Latin American relations, groundbreaking in the sense that it puts the FBI (not the CIA) at the heart of the earliest intelligence gathering by an agency of the U.S. government." — Kenneth Kincaid, Against the Current
"Becker is able to build a compelling narrative of imperial overreach." — Aaron W. Navarro, EIAL
“Written by a leading historian of Ecuador and social movements in Latin America, The FBI in Latin America draws on an impressive and far-reaching body of surveillance documents produced by the FBI and the US State Department. Reconstructing the history of Latin American left-wing organizations, Marc Becker provides a new perspective on events in twentieth-century Ecuador and the activities of communist, labor, women's, Indigenous, and broad-based social movements.” — Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
"The FBI in Latin America is an absolutely fascinating and pathbreaking introduction to the work of US intelligence and of political intervention and surveillance in Ecuador and Latin America more generally. Only a scholar with Marc Becker's impressive knowledge of Ecuador could undertake a project that opens up the volume of data, factual information, and internal disputes and private conversations as found in the FBI's wartime files as a vital new source for historians of leftist and communist movements in Latin America." — Barry Carr, coeditor of The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics