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Central American Vulnerabililty to Soviet/Cuban Penetration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Juan M. Del Aguila
Juan M. Del Aguila*
Affiliation:
Emory University and Director of its Center for International Studies
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Societies and regions affected by political turmoil are subject to intrusions by states which, either directly through surrogates, or in association with local anti-status-quo groups, seek to capitalize on internal vulnerabilities. Seldom do conflicts remain isolated from the external milieu, even if fundamental causes of political turmoil are local or domestic in character. In effect, protracted conflicts, such as those sweeping Central America since the late 1970s, offer opportunities for interventionist powers to project themselves into regions where, historically, a less aggressive posture was taken. With little doubt, the view that local actors can best determine the outcome of conflict situations, such as the one in Central America, is naive and fundamentally inaccurate, no more than a pious expression of neoisolationist sentiments directly at odds with reality.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , Summer 1985 , pp. 77 - 98
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Copyright © University of Miami 1985

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