Revisitando el punto de inflexión interamericano en la Guerra Fría

Abstract

Since the end of the Cold War the academic world has recognized the need to analyze it under the prism of local conflicts developed in the «periphery», modifying the analysis and classical historiographies, highlighting the role of secondary actors in the game of ideological confrontation and valuing the independence of their actions. This historiographic awakening, together with the declassification of superpower archives, has helped to contribute to «historical revisionism», regarding the effectiveness, configuration, intensity or modality of US actions in its interaction with Latin American governments. However, historiographic gaps persist, such as the case of the Dominican Republic crisis in 1965, the intervention of the United States and the formation of the Inter-American Peace Force of the Organization of American States. In the absence of studies, this article revises the events, providing new background and findings, obtained from the analysis of declassified documentation and field interviews. In this way, the facts are rescued as «the» inter-American turning point during the Cold War, demonstrating its connection with other conflicts and its articulation by the United States to increase the perception of the communist threat and the climate of global insecurity.