Juan Gabriel Tokatlian: “if Peru, Colombia and Brazil Go Right in the Elections, the u.s. Will Have the Bulk of Latin America Disciplined”

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In 1950, the famous American diplomat and strategist George F. Kennan — remembered as the architect of the so-called doctrine of containment in front of the Soviet Union — sent a memorandum to the Secretary of State with a crude warning: the United States had to adopt a much harsher stance towards the regions where communist sympathies were growing. In particular, he maintained that Washington had to unambiguously underline its status as a great…