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Detente Scrambles Political Calculus in Latin America

Cindy Arnson

Program Director Cynthia Arnson is mentioned in an article about the detente between the United States and Cuba.

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Support for the Castro regime helped split some Latin American political parties into center-left and hard-left factions. Intellectuals took sides in the ideological struggle between capitalism and communism, the most prominent being Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who had a close personal friendship with Fidel Castro.

And Cuba still plays an outsize role for its relatively small size, said Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin America program at Washington’s Woodrow Wilson Center.

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Cindy Arnson

Cynthia J. Arnson

Distinguished Fellow, Latin America Program
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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more