Differential Effects of American Destabilization Policy in Chile in the

Differential Effects of American Destabilization Policy in Chile in the 1970s and Cuba in the 1990sJust three historic period after taking stain in 1970, Chiles military removed the leftist electric chair Salvador All reversee from ply. In Cuba, nearly forty years after his ascension to power in 1959, Fidel Castro continues to control a communist regime. In Chile in the early 1970s and in Cuba in the early 1990s, the United States cheesed off severe economic crises. In addition, the United States attempted to foster political opposition to create coup climates to overthrow both leaders. The similarities in these histories end there. Chiles open, democratic political system allowed the U.S. to polarize the nation, sidewalk the way for Pinochets U.S. backed military regime. In Cuba, however, thirty years of tight communist control negated the effectiveness of Americas political campaign to sow political dissent. This paper explores the impact of explicit American insuranc e policy to overthrow both leaders, and proposes that divergent political, economic, and military structures contributed to vastly different outcomes. The Nixon constitution want to uphold a cool but correct diplomatic stance toward Chile. The fact that Allende was democratically elected forced the Nixon administration to be less explicitly aggressive about their role in Chile, do them to turn to economics as a primary method for destabilizing the nation. The U.S. sought to isolate, weaken and destabilize Chile until the country was ungovernable in purchase order to create a coup climate. Essentially, the U.S. began a long term dodge to destabilize the Chilean government economically, politically, and militarily, looking to exploit all doable weaknesses. Chile wa... ...ly. vol114 no3 (Fall 1999) 387-408. Kornbluh, Peter. The Pinochet File A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. young York The upstart Press, 2003. LeoGrande, William and Julie Thom as. Cubas Quest for Economic Independence. Journal of Latin American Studies. vol 34 342-363. Oppenheim, Lois Hecht. Politics in Chile Democracy, Authoritarianism, and the Search for Development. 2nd ed. Boulder, Colo. Westview Press, 1999.Otero, Gerardo and Janice OBryan. Cuba in Transition? The Civil Spheres Challenge to the Castro Regime. Latin American Politics and Society. vol44 i4 29-57. Prez-Stable, Marifeli. The Cuban Revolution Origins, Course, and Legacy, 2nd ed. New York Oxford University Press, 1999. Valenzuela, Arturo. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes Chile. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.