The affiliation between the United States in Latin America is one that has undoubtedly demonstrated both historical and contemporary intervention by the American administration for social, economic, ideological and political motives. Latin American resilient partnership with the United States has fostered significant progress yet face ongoing trials. The historical removal of trade barriers between Latin America and the United States saw the latter region being the largest foreign provider of oil to the super hegemonic country as well one of the main developers for alternative fuel. Democracy had spread, economies had been unlocked, and they experienced explosive population growth faster than any other world region. The aftermath of
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The period 1947 to 1991 saw the Cold War altering Latin America’s relationship with the United States severely, as the state became a battlefield between two rivalling ideological systems capitalism and communism. Prior to the Latin America intervention, the level of superpower relations was at an all-time high due to the emergence of two superpowers in the international arena; the United States and the Soviet Union however, the Cold War was seen as seen as a cushioned for stabilization for these superpowers. The United States relationship with the Soviet Union saw both superpowers locked a geopolitical and ideological struggle for supremacy, over one another as an inexorable characteristic of powerful states seeking domination within an anarchic global …show more content…
According to Desch (1993, p. 137), he argued that the United States had a strategic interest in Latin America only in order to ‘prevent an adversary from presenting a wartime, military threat to its ability to defend itself or defend intrinsically valuable areas of the world. The history of the United States relations with Latin America during the Cold War was the only occasion when a state in this region became a political and military partner of the preeminent adversary of the United States. For instance, the case study of Cuba whose foreign policy assisted in shaping United States policies towards the Latin America region, due to the fact that the nation state of Cuba was seen as an undeniable antagonist, the United States government had rationalized to explore alternative outlets to hinder the repercussions of the Cuban and Soviet Union
The period 1947 to 1991 saw the Cold War altering Latin America’s relationship with the United States severely, as the state became a battlefield between two rivalling ideological systems capitalism and communism. Prior to the Latin America intervention, the level of superpower relations was at an all-time high due to the emergence of two superpowers in the international arena; the United States and the Soviet Union however, the Cold War was seen as seen as a cushioned for stabilization for these superpowers. The United States relationship with the Soviet Union saw both superpowers locked a geopolitical and ideological struggle for supremacy, over one another as an inexorable characteristic of powerful states seeking domination within an anarchic global …show more content…
According to Desch (1993, p. 137), he argued that the United States had a strategic interest in Latin America only in order to ‘prevent an adversary from presenting a wartime, military threat to its ability to defend itself or defend intrinsically valuable areas of the world. The history of the United States relations with Latin America during the Cold War was the only occasion when a state in this region became a political and military partner of the preeminent adversary of the United States. For instance, the case study of Cuba whose foreign policy assisted in shaping United States policies towards the Latin America region, due to the fact that the nation state of Cuba was seen as an undeniable antagonist, the United States government had rationalized to explore alternative outlets to hinder the repercussions of the Cuban and Soviet Union