ABSTRACT
As in their contention in other parts of the world, the Soviet stance on Latin America is an offensive one, with the United States making every effort to keep it out of the Western Hemisphere while looking for a chance to strike back. The September 1973 Chilean military coup was one of the events that pointed up the on-going US-Soviet rivalry in Latin America. Since then, Moscow has been regrouping its forces in a further effort to secure a new foothold in South America. Contention in Latin America between the two superpowers – the Soviet Union and the United States – has continued to intensify in the last two years. As indicated by the development of events there, however, Soviet expansion and infiltration, in the face of tidal waves in the Latin American countries to safeguard and consolidate national independence and fight hegemonism, is running into one kind of resistance after another.
