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LATIN AMERICA AS BATTLEGROUND
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• Introduction What To Do?
• National goals sovereignty and flexibility
• Political interests survival in power,
• weakening of rivals

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• Strategic Options The Menu of Responses
• Reformist seeking U.S. aid
• Radical supporting revolution
• Reactionary joining the anti-communist crusade
• Non-aligned promoting Third World
  solidarity

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John F. Kennedy, 1962
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Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964-70)
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Salvador Allende Gossens (1970-73)
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Ernesto Che Guevara
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Fidel Castro Ruz, ca. 1979
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• The Cold War Consequences
• for Latin America
• Polarization, weakening of political center
• Ascendancy of right-wing forces
• Assaults upon the political left
• Transitions toward democracy
• Acknowledgement of U.S. hegemony