Internal political conflict, foreign policy and the role of Latin America: open tensions in the third Peronist government

Abstract

The political current that was reflected in the area of the foreing policy and the international relations during the Héctor Cámpora’s government (1973) was a product of the internal transformations of the Peronism. Itwas proposing the beginning of a new relation with Latin America. It would prefigure the approximation towards Cuba and the attempts of the new Argentine government of advancing towards a reform of the OEA and the inter-American system. In this article we will analyze the link between the political internal dynamics, the foreign policy and the international relations with Latin America. We will see how during this government and that of Juan Domingo Perón, the foreign policy returned to have an antiimperialistic draft, and to giving relevancy to the region. However, the dynamics of the Cold War is fundamental to understand the trends and contradictions of the international insertion. The foreign policy expressed the great disputes especially between fractions of the Peronism. This way, the appeal to Latin America like genuine space of insertion will be modifying his content in a space of intense and brief time.