Introduction

The new perspective offered in this chapter opens the doors for a better understanding of the nature of early Soviet Russia's relations with some of the Latin American nations, especially if to take into account their relevance in the context of the genesis of contemporary left movements in the regions, which can be traced back to the Comintern epoch. Despite important similarities between the Mexican and Russian revolutions, there have been many fundamental differences, which did allow a sustainable rapprochement between revolutionary Mexico and Soviet Russia in the first part of the 20th century. However, the measures were systematically becoming more repressive and could no more be considered as implemented in concordance with the Carta Magna. The author also describes how the consensus between the leading Colombian political parties was reached over fighting national and international communism, which was strongly associated with the Soviet Union.