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Norberto Barreto Velázquez deposited LAS BUENAS INTENCIONES NO BASTAN: LA POLÍTICA EXTERIOR DE ESTADOS UNIDOS HACIA AMÉRICA LATINA EN EL SIGLO XX in the group
US-Latin American Foreign Relations on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis essay examines the US government’s attempts throughout the 20th century to
improve its relations with Latin America. It shows that most of these efforts were
motivated by external factors such as wars or conflicts with other world powers. Although genuine, these attempts were ultimately subordinate to the United States’
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Norberto Barreto Velázquez deposited “Road that Goes to the Wrong Place”: Corruption in Foreign Aid to Peru, 1955-1961 in the group
US-Latin American Foreign Relations on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn 1960, right before the launching of Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, a Congressional investigation was conducted over 5 previous administrative procedures that dismissed the allegations of corruption on US foreign aid to Peru. Those previous procedures conducted by the International Cooperation Administration had exculpated John R. Neale, Chief…[Read more]
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Norberto Barreto Velázquez deposited “A truly remarkable man”: El Congreso de Estados Unidos y el gobierno de Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 1963-1968 in the group
US-Latin American Foreign Relations on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl 3 de octubre de 1968, las fuerzas armadas peruanas derrocaron al presidente electo del Perú Fernando Belaúnde Terry, dando paso a un largo periodo de gobierno militar. Existe un consenso historiográfico de que una de las causas de la caída de Belaúnde fue la falta de apoyo del gobierno estadounidense. A pesar de que Belaúnde era un demóc…[Read more]
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Antonio Sotomayor deposited The Triangle of Empire: Sport, Religion, and Imperialism in Puerto Rico’s YMCA, 1898–1926 in the group
US-Latin American Foreign Relations on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis article studies the intersection of sport, religion, and imperialism through the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) as an extension of United States expansion into Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War of 1898. The YMCA’s emphasis on “muscular Christianity” and sports made it attractive to some locals who welcomed this feature…[Read more]
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US-Latin American Foreign Relations on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago