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Challenges to U.S. Influence in Latin America

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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE THIRD WORLD: AGENDA 1982. Prepared by HANSENROGER D. et al. for the Overseas Development Council. (New York: Praeger, 1982. Pp. 248.)

COLOSSUS CHALLENGED: THE STRUGGLE FOR CARIBBEAN INFLUENCE. Edited by ERISMANH. MICHAEL and MARTZJOHN D. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982. Pp. 260. $17.00.)

U.S. INFLUENCE IN LATIN AMERICA IN THE 1980S. Edited by WESSONROBERT. (New York: Praeger, 1982. Pp. 242. $23.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

John W. Sloan*
Affiliation:
University of Houston
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Copyright © 1984 by Latin American Research Review

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Notes

1. For a differing view, see Capitalism and the State in U.S.–Latin American Relations, edited by Richard R. Fagen (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1979).

2. John A. Bushnell, “Sustaining a Responsible Middle Course,” Orbis 26 (Summer 1982): 305–11.

3. Paul E. Sigmund, “Latin America: Change or Continuity?,” Foreign Affairs 60 (Winter 1981–82): 640.

4. For some contrasting views, see Wayne S. Smith, “Dateline Havana: Myopic Diplomacy/' Foreign Policy 48 (Fall 1982): 157–75; and Cuba in the World, edited by Cole Blasier and Carmelo Mesa-Lago (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979).

5. For an excellent summary of Venezuela's Caribbean policy, see John D. Martz, “Ideology and Oil: Venezuela in the Circum-Caribbean,” in Colossus Challenged.

6. Susan Kaufman Purcell, “Mexico–U.S. Relations: Big Initiatives Can Cause Big Problems,” Foreign Affairs 60 (Winter 1981–82): 389.