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Soviet Policy toward Latin America: Time for Renewal*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Fernando Bustamante
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Among the Many Changes initiated in the Soviet Union, President Gorbachev has not left untouched its policy towards the Third World. By the end of 1986, he had outlined a position radically different from that of his predecessors.

What characteristics distinguish this new face which Moscow intends to turn to the less developed countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America?

In the first place, the Soviet Union places strong emphasis on avoiding any more direct military obligations, such as those assumed in Angola, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and others in the past. The Soviet leadership has concluded that those obligations of “international solidarity,” far from representing gains and successes for the Kremlin, have represented a double loss.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 35 - 66
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Copyright © University of Miami 1990

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This article was translated into English by Jane Marchi.

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