I don't speak the Indonesian languages, words and names from which also crop up frequently in 'The Jakarta Method,' so I have no way of knowing for sure whether Mr. Example: the Portuguese word 'aliança,' pronounced 'ah-lee-AWNS-ah' but rendered as 'ah-lee-ONK-ah' by the hapless, clueless and evidently lazy Mr. Paige mangle these languages beyond recognition.

Is it really so hard to find professionally-trained readers who either know the non-English languages made use of in the books they are hired to record or who at least bother to take the time to learn how to pronounce the relatively few words and names they know they are going to be required to read into a microphone? As a native English-speaker who speaks and has taught both Spanish and Portuguese, I can't help but cringe every time I hear Mr. Great book, but the narration has serious flawsĪs with so many Audible recordings, an otherwise able narrator but with evidently zero knowledge of languages other than English, garbles the non-English names and words in this book so badly that listening to it becomes almost painful. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the US-led capitalist system. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research, and eye-witness testimony collected across 12 countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.

This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile.

In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. The hidden story of the wanton slaughter - in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world - backed by the United States. Named One of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, The Financial Times, and GQ

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