ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes two related aspects of comparative human rights behavior: the comparative level of human rights violations among twenty-three Latin American nations; and the comparative level of financial support of human rights violations in Latin America by the Administrations of Presidents Ford and Jimmy Carter. In order to measure the comparative level of human rights violations in Latin America, a collective assessment was made by surveying a group of individuals who have devoted their lives to the international protection of human rights. The Administration officials responsible for US participation in international financial institutions (IFI), Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs C. Fred Bergsten, have actively opposed efforts by Congress to add human rights sections to legislation authorizing US participation in IFIs. Many members of the Carter administration seemed not to have received the message that human rights are to be promoted aggressively.
