NEW POWER BLOC IN SOUTH AMERICA? - Gene H Hogberg - December 1980

Gene H Hogberg

United States power and influence in the Western hemisphere is shrinking - just as Communist inroads are increasing. Key nations in South America are talking of joint economic and political counteraction as never before. A quick, three-week, five nation fact-finding trip to South America confirms this fact: North Americans will soon have to face a new set of political realities in the Western hemisphere. In short, the nations of Latin America are no longer dependent on the historic dominance of the United States in the New World. Along with independence from Washington is coming unheard - of cooperation between previously suspicious and competitive Latin American powers. This cooperation, in turn, is destined to link Latin America as a whole with a burgeoning global economic system centered in Western Europe. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library