ABSTRACT
For the last 45 years, US relations with Latin America were essentially frozen in the Cold War and its national security implications. During those sporadic moments when the United States turned its attention to Latin America, it sought, mostly with greater and greater amounts of aid, to wage and win the war on its doorstep. Yet with the Soviet Union dissolved into many parts and global communism in hopeless disarray, there is an unprecedented opportunity in the region to promote and manage change.
