Cold War Pan-American Operations: Oil, Coffee, and '3,500 Years of Colombian Art'
2011; Routledge; Volume: 12; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/174582011x13086690102258
ISSN1745-820X
Autores Tópico(s)History and Politics in Latin America
ResumoThe exhibition '3,500 Years of Colombian Art', sponsored by the Inter national Petroleum Company, under the control of the Rockefeller family, coincided with a state visit of the Colombian president Alberto Lleras Camargo to the United States in 1960, at a moment of reconfiguration of strategic regional policies that responded to heightened Cold War anxieties. The show helped forward several agendas by promoting goodwill between the parties involved: International Petroleum sought confirmation of its holdings in the Andean nation, while Colombians used the exhibition as a platform to forward their national interests, which included support for their country's main product, coffee. The image of a nation tied to its pre-Columbian heritage, but receptive to processes of modernization, echoed Lleras's call for measures of development and reform of the region promoted as the Operación Panamericana.
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