In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G.
South American military dictators whom Kissinger favored committed international terrorism in Europe and the Western Hemisphere..
Kissinger also bolstered and coddled murderous military dictators who trampled on basic human rights.
He launched critical initiatives with Panama and Cuba.
He resolved nettlesome issues with Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
He waged war against Salvador Allende and successfully destabilized a government in Bolivia.
The energetic Kissinger devoted more time and effort to Latin America than any of his predecessors-or successors-who served as the national security adviser or secretary of state during the Cold War era.
Rabe further challenges the notion that Henry Kissinger dismissed relations with the southern neighbors. policies toward a distinct region of the world during Kissinger\'s career as national security adviser and secretary of state.
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Scholarly studies on Henry Kissinger and his policies between 1969 and 1977 have tended to survey Kissinger\'s approach to the world, with an emphasis on initiatives toward the Soviet Union and the People\'s Republic of China and the struggle to extricate the United States from the Vietnam conflict. foreign relations.
Rabe also offers a way of adding to and challenging the prevailing historiography on one of the most preeminent policymakers in the history of U.
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Nixon and Gerald R.
Except for the issue of Chile under Salvador Allende, historians have largely ignored inter-American relations during the presidencies of Richard M. policies toward Latin America during a critical period of the Cold War.
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In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G
