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Latin America In The 1960 S And Its Influence On To Curry Favor With The Guerrilla Movement

Posted on:2014-02-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T NiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330398458376Subject:World History
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In the late1950s and the early1960s of the20thcentury, especially since thesuccess of Fidel Castro in1959,hundreds of guerrillas emerged in LatinAmerica,guiding by some leaders like Guevara,and became a very strong regionalpower,which swept over the whole area. At the same time,the rise of guerrillas hasthreatened the safety and interests of the U.S. So the U.S. Government took measuresto suppress the guerrillas. And the relations of the U.S and Latin America has beenevolved throughout the movement.The first part of the article introduces the background and causes of the outbreakof the guerrilla movement in Latin America.Background section includes theinternational and regional background.Cuba and the United States could be seen theexternal factors,and the widespread land problems as the deep-seatedreasons,according to these factors,we can analysis the background to the outbreak ofthe guerrilla movement in Latin America.In its domestic roots, social and politicalroots of the guerrilla movement in Latin America can been seen as the starting point,to explain that the guerrilla movement initially originated in the university andleft-wing parties.In the second part,we discussed the overview of the country’s major outbreak ofthe guerrilla movement in Latin America.At that time,varying degrees of guerrillamovement took place in almost every country in Latin America.But in fact, onlyfive of them reached a relatively large scale, namely: Guatemala, Venezuela,Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.Then we analysis and summarize the causes of the abovefive countries internal guerrilla movement, their development and finaldestination.according to those analysis,we can get more information about the trueexperience of each famous guerrillas and their leaders.The third part is the presentation and interpretation of the U.S. counterinsurgencypolicy in Latin America. The United States felt that its interests are seriouslythreatened since the guerrilla movement occurred in Latin America, which prompted the United States issued an emergency measure to curb the development of theguerrilla movement. First,the U.S. Government launched all forces to assess the riskfactor of the guerrilla movement, then provided Latin American countries armymilitary assistance and training, to help them enhanced repression ability to stabilizethe situation.This chapter is divided into two parts to evaluate counterinsurgencypolicy, the one hand, the initial judgment was wrong, that overestimated the SovietUnion and Cuba’s ability to intervene in Latin America, and the second was thenegative role of the military aid, adding to the Latin American soldiers usurper anddictatorship.The fourth part, the impacts of Latin American guerrilla movement on therelations between U.S. and Latin American,which can be divided into three aspects,namely, to stimulate cooperation between the governments of the United States andLatin America, and promote the transformation of the U. S.-Latin America relationsmilitary relationship and eased tensions between the United States and LatinAmerica after the World War II.
Keywords/Search Tags:Latin America, Guerrilla movement, America, International relations
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