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Guatemalan Revolutionaries and Havana's Ideological Offensive of 1966-1968

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David A. Crain
David A. Crain*
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Department of History, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota 57006
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A marked improvement has occurred since 1968 in Havana's relations with Moscow and the traditional Communist parties of Latin America. Previously, however, from approximately 1966-1968 Fidel Castro's actions and words came perilously close to precipitating a formal split between his regime and the pro-Soviet parties of the hemisphere. At one time, sporadic criticisms of standard Communist party revolutionary strategy and tactics escalated in frequency and gravity. An ideological offensive advanced as Castro flaunted an independent Marxist line in both domestic and international affairs. Havana proceeded to exacerbate growing tensions in the uneasy alliance between guerrilla movements and Communist parties in several Latin American countries.

Attempts to establish the factors prompting these actions have to date focused on Cuban reactions to developments in the Venezuelan revolutionary movement during 1964-1966.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , May 1975 , pp. 175 - 206
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Copyright © University of Miami 1975

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