CHANGING CONTEXTS OF REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA

Abstract

The political origins of Cuban-type revolutionary pressures in Latin America are traced to the frustrations and divisions within the popular, Aprista-type parties during the mid-1950s. The failure of democratic experimentation after 1945 led to the radicalization of youthful segments of these parties and to a revived nationalist revolutionary militancy which expressed itself in anti-imperialist, anti-American terms. The consummation of this latent division among Latin American revolutionary groups after 1959, together with other changes in the internal and international political contexts, many of which are directly related to the development of the Cuban Revolution, render repetition or extension of the Cuban experience elsewhere in Latin America improbable despite the continued prevalence of violence and underdevelopment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0638499

Entities

People

  • Luigi Einaudi

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central America
  • Communism
  • Department Of State
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Hispanics
  • Insurgency
  • Latin America
  • National Politics
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Second World War
  • Societies
  • Students
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • History
  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Educational Psychology
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.