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Castro and “New Thinking” in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Kline
Michael Kline*
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Graduate School of International Studies, the University of Miami
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This article will argue that general agreement between Cuba and the Soviet Union on their foreign policy toward Latin America is likely over the long run, despite (a) Fidel Castro's condemnation of perestroika and glasnost, and (b) his obvious attempt to embarrass Soviet Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev during the latter's state visit to Cuba in April 1989. Serious obstacles — such as differences over Cuban domestic policy and Castro's personal ambitions — remain to be overcome, but foreign policy disagreements between the two countries are likely to prove less intractable than is frequently assumed.

This article will start with (1) an overview of Cuban Latin American foreign policy since the 1970s; then proceed to (2) an interpretation of Soviet “new thinking;” and finally (3) argue that this particular interpretation of “new thinking” is consistent with, and not contradictory to, Castro's foreign policy.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 83 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1990

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