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Latin America in the Foreign Relations of the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Gordon Connell-Smith
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In the rhetoric of United States foreign relations, the countries of Latin America occupy a very special place. They are ‘our sister republics’, ‘the Good Neighbours’, fellow members of a unique international system, and so on. The reality, not surprisingly, is different. Because of the vast disparity of power between the United States and Latin America, relations between them are inherently delicate and subject to strains. The issue of ‘intervention’ by the United States in the internal and external affairs of the Latin American countries is ever present, whether it is a matter of marines being sent into a small Caribbean republic or of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ‘destabilizing’ a major South American government.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , May 1976 , pp. 137 - 150
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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