• DOI:10.1080/09592296.2010.508418
• Corpus ID: 154119414

The United States and the Peruvian Challenge, 1968–1975

@article{Brands2010TheUS,
  title={The United States and the Peruvian Challenge, 1968–1975},
  author={Henry William Brands},
  journal={Diplomacy \& Statecraft},
  year={2010},
  volume={21},
  pages={471 - 490}
}

• H. Brands
• Published 14 September 2010
• Political Science
• Diplomacy & Statecraft

This article explores United States–Peruvian relations during the rule of General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968–1975). Velasco pursued a sharply nationalistic foreign policy, leading to repeated diplomatic dust-ups with the United States. Peruvian officials generally acquitted themselves quite well in these episodes, in part because of their own diplomatic acumen, and in part because broader geopolitical trends of the period undermined traditional sources of United States leverage in Latin America. The United States would ultimately have to wait for a change of government to recoup some of the influence it had lost in Peru under Velasco.