Author profile: Christy Quinn

The Dreamboat That Ran Aground: U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela 1955-1960

Christy Quinn • Oct 30 2011 • Essays

The US experience in Venezuela helped nuance its wider policy towards Latin America by challenging the reliance on free market economics. While the Eisenhower administration chose to re-emphasise democratic values in order to combat rising Communist radicalism, practical support for democracy proved to be limited.

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