"Destrucción de naciones": El arma económica de Estados Unidos desarrollada en Bolivia

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  • Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2018.184

Palabras clave:

asistencia técnica de Estados Unidos, construcción de nación, Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos, Embajada de Estados Unidos en La Paz, Harry Truman, Naciones Unidas, Programa Punto IV, USAID

Resumen

Documentos desclasificados muestran que cuando el presidente Harry Truman creó su Programa Point IV (1949), lanzó implícitamente una operación global de soft “nation building" instrumentalizada a través de la asistencia técnica y económica. La llave maestra para intervenir en otras naciones fue la firma de los Acuerdos de Cooperación Técnica Punto IV. Este trabajo abarca el período comprendido entre enero de 1951 y el 12 de abril de 1952, y muestra en detalle cómo Bolivia se convirtió en un laboratorio para los experimentos de los EE. UU. en este tipo de intervenciones. El 14 de marzo de 1951 un gobierno boliviano pro estadounidense firmó el Acuerdo y los EE. UU. hicieron todo lo posible para evitar el surgimiento de un movimiento revolucionario, pero a pesar de sus esfuerzos, el pueblo se movilizó, derrotó al ejército y depuso al gobierno en la sangrienta revolución de abril de 1952. La revolución del MNR preparó el escenario para la prueba definitiva: la efectividad de los programas de soft “nation-building" contra un gobierno izquierdista y antiimperialista.   

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2018-12-19

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Bolivian Studies Journal Vol. 23-24 (2017-2018)

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