why do you think that relations between the U.S. and Latin America were strained during the Cold War?

Answer 1

The US made the mistake of lumping all communists into one basket, and policy tended to be to support anything anti-communist. A lot of people who shouldn't have been supported by the US noted that quirk, and so would just make anti-communist noises to get unwarranted support from the US.In defence of the State Department, though, it's hard to tell whom to support among a group of unknowns, and which will turn out to be more or less as expected.

Answer 2

Urkka, not all latin american relations were strained. We supported the government of El Salvador against their rebels. Venezuela (then) was a strong ally. Costa Rica was on friendly terms. Fact is most of latin america was allied with us.
Sure, Nicarauga and Cuba were anti-American, but then again they were allied with the Soviet Union during the cold war. Other countries were distant allies.

The strain in Latin American relations was in our media and our political parties, and the same side that says we should ditch our allies now was saying it then.

Answer 3

Sure, Latin America became a proxy battleground durring the Cold War. Communists fomented revolution there, the US reflexively opposed it, even if the only opposition available was a fascist dictator.

Answer 4

Could it be the constant interference in the internal political affairs of virtually every Latin American country throughout the entire Cold War? I just finished reading a CIA summary of their operations in Chile. Very interesting!

Answer 5

for the simple reason is that the U.S. (through the CIA) had tried to over throw socialist governments in places like Nicaragua, El Salvador, etc... a prime example of this was the arms deals that were going on during the Iran-Contra Affair.

Answer 6

It could have been the US support for psychopathic dictators in Latin America.

Answer 7

I do not know but will say so much has been hurting the relationships between country's, I think it's our leaders we need to all just meet and I think all of us would get along fine if we didn't have the snotty nose trouble making leaders involved

Answer 8

I guess the little thing like the Cuba Missile Crisis. A conservative Democrat. Which there are no more of, backed the Commies down