Creating a Third World
Subtitle: Mexico, Cuba, and the United States during the Castro Era
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: October 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780826342386
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; International relations; c 1960 to c 1970; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba; International Relations - General; Latin America - General; Latin America - Mexico; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); History / Latin America; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Cuba; Mexico; Relations; United States
Description: "The relationship between Mexico and Cuba grabbed international headlines early in the twenty-first century due to a rift in a relationship generally understood to be unique, special, and friendly since Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba in 1959. Much of the goodwill between the two countries existed because Mexico retained its allegiance to Cuba between 1964 and 1970 when all other Latin American countries severed relations with Cuba." "In one of the first English-language studies to examine relationships in a trilateral context, Christopher White portrays a broad-based history of this unique and complex association and identifies the processes that led to the recent strain between the two countries. White asserts that Mexico and Cuba utilized the Cold War to define themselves as influential leaders in the developing world through their exertion of autonomy in international relations. White also views this relationship as an example of an alternative path from that taken by many developing world nations that buckled under the pressures of being caught between the United States and the Soviet Union."--Jacket.