Latin American Debt

Abstract

The Latin American region carries a heavy debt to export ratio. That ratio causes conditions which threaten U.S. national security interests. High debt to export ratios cause domestic economic growth impediments and increase inflationary pressures. These in turn encourage higher taxes and duties, hamper investment, and discourage job creation. The end domestic result for Latin American countries is a decrease in general living conditions with a resultant increase in the instability of the government in power. U.S. national interests are threatened by: --Declining U.S. markets in Latin America. --Loss of U. S. domestic jobs, --Negative effects on U.S. trade deficit, --Increasing tensions between U.S. (creditor) and Latin American (debtor) governments, --Increases in drug production in Latin America in response to high unemployment, --Instability--to include nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and population pressures-- in proximity to the continental U. S.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA440517

Entities

People

  • Fred Bertsch

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Domestic
  • Governments
  • Hispanics
  • Information Operations
  • Investments
  • Latin America
  • Living Standards
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Proliferation
  • Security
  • Three Dimensional
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Economics