ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the diplomatic and political linkages in the global setting of the triangular relations among Latin America, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Soviet relations with Latin America have been obstructed by all those United Statse (US) policies that oppose regional economic, social, and political change with the East-West confrontation argument. The analysis of Latin American–Soviet relations in the twilight of the twentieth century has to be inserted in the new structure of international relations. The policy of the Soviet Union toward Latin America has been conducted, since the October Revolution, through two fundamental channels: interstate relations and the links between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist parties of the region. The shift in the Soviet Union's foreign policy and detente with the United States were also necessary to the extent that they permitted the freeing of resources to overcome the economic crisis.
