Keywords
confidential maps
planning
development
U.S. hegemony
Keywords plus
Latin America Historical Geography-Maps
United States-Monopolies
Socioeconomic aspects-Latin America
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Abstract
The article present maps of Latin America, especially of Ecuador, made by United States’ cartographers, scientistsand planners during and immediately after World War II. Some of these maps were confidential until recent decades,others were public. These maps are analyzed as artifacts of power, drawings of territories used to control societiesand nature, and to build hegemony. The maps are understood as reflections of a United States’ desire, to build theLatin American territory as a raw materials’ warehouse, complementary to their economy and production. The articleconcludes that these maps were crucial to the United States monopolization of the extraction of raw materials, andto promote development.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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