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The Reagan Administration seems now to be presiding — probably unwittingly and certainly unwillingly — like Great Britain’s Churchill some while back — over the liquidation of an empire. The vehicles of access, leverage and control that served for a decade or so to bend even the more distant and more developed Latin American countries to the will of the United States are no longer available or adequate for that purpose. Trends within and outside Latin America have converged to produce this result.
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For elaboration of these themes, see Jan Knippers Black, United States Penetration of Brazil (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977) and Sentinels of Empire: The United States and Latin American Militarism (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986).
Paul Y. Hammond, David J. Louscher and Michael D. Salomon, ‘Growing Dilemmas for the Management of Arms Sales’, Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Fall 1979) pp. 1–21.
Diego Abente, ‘Uruguay and Paraguay’, Chapter 26 in Jan Knippers Black (ed.), Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984) p. 459.
Robert Olds, US Undersecretary of State, quoted in Eduardo Crawley, Dictators Never Die (London: Hurst, 1979) pp. 52–3.
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Black, J.K. (1990). The Passing of Pax Americana. In: Morris, M.A. (eds) Great Power Relations in Argentina, Chile and Antarctica. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10075-0_2
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