Do Suez ao Canal do Panamá e além: A influência de Gamal Abdel Nasser na América Latina

Federico Vélez

doi:10.1590/0104-87752015000100007

Abstract

Este artigo explora a influência do líder egípcio Gamal Abdel Nasser na América Latina. Na década de 1950, uma geração de intelectuais e políticos latino-americanos viram, no sucesso do emergente nacionalismo árabe, simbolizado por Nasser, um exemplo a imitar. No Panamá, a nacionalização egípcia do Canal de Suez, em 1956, desencadeou nova onda de demandas contra o controle e a posse do canal interoceânico pelos Estados Unidos. Em toda a região, frente ao aparecimento de regimes reacionários, intelectuais de esquerda enfatizaram a necessidade de um Nasser latino-americano; um caudilho moderno, que emergiria do interior das Forças Armadas imbuído de potente nacionalismo sem concessões e compromisso inegociável com o progresso social.

Highlights

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Summary

15 Brazil is on Guard after Ban on Reds

President is Expected to Issue Decree Barring Reorganizing of the Communist Party. New York Times (New York), p.6, 9 may 1947; Brazil and the U.S.S.R. Sector of the country, the expansion of Anglo-Saxon culture in the Canal Zone, and its monopoly over the canal and the business infrastructure that supported its activities This growing discontent, which included a wide sector of society from the poor unskilled labor force to the more affluent middle class, forced the Panamanian government throughout much of the 1930s to seek the renegotiation of the 1903 founding treaty, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. This attempt culminated in the nominal ending of the protectorate status in 1939 and minor concessions that did not alter the nature of Panama’s demands against the American presence.. The Acting Officer in charge of Central American and Panamanian Affairs, in a memo to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of Inter-American Affairs, explained the situation to his superiors in Washington: 18 Political and Military Relations of the United States and Panama: Impact of the Suez Canal Crisis, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRU S) (Washington D.C.), vol VII, p.274, 275, 277-280, 1987

19 Political and Military Relations of the United States and Panama

20 Political and Military Relations of the United States and Panama

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