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U.S. Influence in the Organization of American States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

George Meek
George Meek*
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Organization of American States
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Literature on U.S. influence in the Organization of American States reveals a marked diversity of views. Some authors consider that U.S. influence is absolute or very nearly so; others hold that it is relative; still others think it is minimal.

In the nearly-absolute school, former Guatemalan President Arévalo (1961: 126) says that the United States “always wins” in the OAS. The Ecuadorian writer Benjamín Cardón (1965: 29) says that the OAS “receives orders and complies with them, with the appearance of discussion, and the appearance of votes that satisfy pro-forma the hypocritical quakerism of the masters.” This view might be summed up by a comment attributed to a Latin American delegate to one Inter-American Conference: “If the United States wanted to badly enough, it could have a resolution passed declaring two and two are five ” (New York Times, March 8, 1954).

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , August 1975 , pp. 311 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1975

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