#148 The United States, Latin America, and the World: The Changing International Context of United States-Latin American Relations
By James R. Kurth
From the Introduction
The United States in the 1980s faces fundamental challenges to the pattern of United States-Latin American relations that has prevailed for almost half a century. The current armed conflicts in Central America portend either new revolutionary governments or prolonged United States involvement with military advisors and perhaps combat troops in the region. The debt burdens and financial crises of Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina portend major political changes in the largest countries of Latin America and major structural changes in the system of international banking. And the conjunction of these strategic and economic crises makes the challenges confronting United States-Latin American relations the gravest since the Great Depression and the international aggressions of the 1930s.
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