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After Miami: The Summit, the Peso Crisis, and the Future of US-Latin American Relations*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Howard J. Wiarda
Howard J. Wiarda*
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts/Amherst, National Defense University in Washington, Center for Strategic and International Studies
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As the Miami Summit of Western Hemisphere heads of state concluded on 11 December 1994, excessive optimism — even euphoria — seemed to be everywhere in the air. For once, the United States and Latin America seemed to be in agreement on basic policy, rather than, as so often in the past, in each other's hair/face or at each other's throats. There was general agreement about the goals of democracy, free trade, and open markets; the vexatious Cuba issue had been skillfully shunted aside.

However, more than that, the Miami Summit appeared to augur a new era in US-Latin American relations based on consensus and a common agenda of human rights, democracy, transparency, the environment, government reform, social equity, and a free market environment.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 43 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1995

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Prepared for the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, North-South Center, University of Miami (FL).

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