El problema del militarismo en América Latina
Abstract
From 1945 until the end of the 1960s, the armies in Latin America were brought together, both materially and ideologically, by the absolute hegemony that the United States of North America exercised over the continent. This factor, the only unifying factor, imposed the ideology that could accurately be called the Cold War in which the central enemy of the Latin American countries and the Western world, of the so-called free world, was the Soviet Union and its constant expansionist threat; so that the Latin American armies were restructured and accommodated within this ideology, and their preparation was fundamentally oriented to encompass a space of action oriented towards the objective of preventing, in the case of Latin America, the expansion of the Soviet Union and support the United States in its attempt to contain communism on a global scale. For this purpose, the so-called hemispheric military system was created in the Latin American region, since in 1947 the TIAR (Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance) was signed, in which a series of stipulations were made to prevent powers outside the inter-American sphere from penetrating in Latin America. There it was stated that any enemy, internal or external, that had links with extracontinental forces would receive a joint response from the inter-American system.
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