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| Out of the Backyard: New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies WashingtonDangl, Benjaminhttp://www.towardfreedom.com/home/americas/2639-out-of-the-backyard-new-latin-american-and-caribbean-bloc-defies-washington 
 Publisher:  Toward Freedom
 Date Written:  07/12/2011
 Year Published:  2011
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 The CELAC meeting comes a time when Washingtons presence in the region is waning. Following the nightmarish decades of the Cold War, in which Washington propped up dictators and waged wars on Latin American nations, a new era has opened up; in the past decade a wave of leftist presidents have taken office on socialist and anti-imperialist platforms.
 
 
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