Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1977 (4. évfolyam)

1977 / 3. szám - Idegen nyelvű tartalomjegyzék

and fifty odd years this has „justified” numerous acts of interference in the independent development of Latin American countries. Following the Vietnam defeat American capitalism in its economic and political aspects stepped up pressure to hold up local processes, and put a brake on Latin American integration, and the nationalization of mineral deposits and certain key industries. One of the objectives of Dr Kissinger’s policy was to replace legally elected governments opposed to the US, replacing them by militarydi ctatorships loyal to Washington. The Republican Administration established a special relationship with Brazil which aimed at an independent geopolitical role.

The Carter Administration has started on the revaluation of US Latin American policy in the interests of preserving American influence. The process is far from unequivocal or final. The author, basing himself on a report prepared by Sol M. Linowitz, President Carter’s South American adviser, in the summer of 1974, and amended late in 1976, in the light of changing events, discusses recent efforts by certain sections of the American Establishment. Linowitz and his staff urge that the US

— accept ideological pluralism amongst the

Latin American countries, including the fait accompli of Cuban socialism;

— should not hinder the Latin American countries in playing a more active and independent role on international platforms, or object to their growing oboperation;

— accept that states in other continents will have an increasing role in the future in the solution of the problems of Latin American countries, and that Latin American countries will diversify their political and economic contacts;

— should recognize that relations between the US and Latin America cannot in future be arranged on a purely regional level, they must be handled as part of a comprehensive American politico-economic strategy in relation to the „third world” as such.

The article endeavours to display the moving springs and limitations of the latest American steps taken to improve Cuban — American relations and cope with the Panama Canal problem, as well as looking at the actual and possible consequences of the desire of the American Administration to allow relations with particular Latin American countries to depend on the „position of human rights” there.

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