Juan Gabriel Tokatlian: ‘If Peru, Colombia, and Brazil shift to the right, the US will have the bulk of Latin America under its influence’

Juan Gabriel Tokatlian: ‘If Peru, Colombia, and Brazil shift to the right, the US will have the bulk of Latin America under its influence’

In 1950, the renowned U.S. diplomat and strategist George F. Kennan — remembered as the architect of the so‑called containment doctrine against the Soviet Union — sent a memorandum to the secretary of state with a stark warning: the United States needed to adopt a much tougher stance toward regions where communist sympathies were growing. In particular, he argued that Washington had to strongly assert its status as a great power, making clear th…