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[74] According to Marc Becker, a Latin American history professor of Truman State University, the claim of the presidency by Juan Guaidó "was part of a U.S.-backed maximum-pressure campaign for regime change that empowered an extremist faction of the country's opposition while simultaneously destroying the economy with sanctions."
Santa Cruz Department. República de Santa Cruz [16] [17]. Proposed state: República de Santa Cruz Advocacy group: Nación Camba Qullasuyu. Proposed state: Qullasuyu Ethnic group: Aymara people
Latin American Research Review 8 (Summer 1973), 53-73. Hamill, Hugh, ed. Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1992. Humphreys, R.A. "The Caudillo Tradition." in Tradition and Revolt in Latin America, 216-28. New York: Columbia University Press 1969. Johnson, John J. "Foreign Factors in Dictatorship in ...
The Trump administration is expected to take a strong stance against dictatorships in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, with a focus on promoting peace through strength and ensuring democracy in the ...
North American right-wing dictatorships were instrumental in suppressing their countries' labour movements and instituting corporatist economies. During the Cold War , these right-wing dictatorships were characterized by a distinct anti-communist ideology, and often rose to power through US-backed coups.
If populist movements in 1930s and 1940s Latin America had apparent fascist overtones and based themselves on authoritarian politics, as was the case of Vargas' Estado Novo dictatorship in Brazil (1937–1945), [16] or of some of Peron's openly expressed sympathies, [17] in the 1950s populism adapted—not without considerable unease from its ...
The same level of concern distinguished the Brazilian stand at the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) meeting in Viña del Mar in 1969. On this occasion, Brazil voiced its support of a Latin American union project. In the security sphere, disarmament was defended and the joint control system of the two superpowers condemned.
The US and Latin America: Eisenhower, Kennedy and Economic Diplomacy in the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2015). Smith, Joseph. The United States and Latin America: A History of American Diplomacy, 1776–2000 (Routledge, 2005). Smith, Joseph. Illusions of Conflict: Anglo-American Diplomacy Toward Latin America, 1865–1896 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1979).