2010/09/14 by Hal Brands · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America #International Relations in Latin America
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09592296.2010.508418
openalex publication_date 2010/09/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This article explores United States–Peruvian relations during the rule of General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968–1975). Velasco pursued a sharply nationalistic foreign policy, leading to repeated diplomatic dust-ups with the United States. Peruvian officials generally acquitted themselves quite well in these episodes, in part because of their own diplomatic acumen, and in part because broader geopolitical trends of the period undermined traditional sources of United States leverage in Latin America. The United States would ultimately have to wait for a change of government to recoup some of the influence it had lost in Peru under Velasco.