Peron's Gambit: The United States and the Argentine Challenge to the Inter-American Order, 1946-1948
2002; Oxford University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/1467-7709.00298
ISSN1467-7709
Autores Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
Resumo“The threat which gives us the worst case of cold shivers,” State Department officer Guy Ray wrote in 1948, “is that of a southern bloc dominated by Argentina.”1 The Truman administration had good reason to fear the emergence of Colonel Juan Domingo Perón's “New Argentina.” Perón had dedicated himself to a dramatic revision of Argentina's social hierarchy and to a program of state-driven economic growth, both of which stood in stark contrast to the liberal capitalist order favored by U.S. policymakers. What is more, Perón did not confine his vision to Argentina but worked diligently to export his populist brand of state corporatism to the other nations of the Southern Cone of South America. In short, he sought to rectify what he believed to be the “incomprehensible error” by which the Southern Cone had been divided into a number of separate nations and to create instead an integrated southern bloc behind Argentine leadership.2
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