Bulgaria and Latin America in the Cold War years A Case Study for Soviet Bloc Political Relations with Latin American Countries DOI10.5216/o.v14iespecial.30774

Résumé

The study is based on long term reveal of Bulgarian postwar archives and discuss for the first time many still unknown episodes of the Bulgarian relations with Latin American countries in the Cold War era. The establishment and further development of the diplomatic and political relations between a small Balkan state like Bulgaria with Latin America is seen as a case study for Soviet Bloc policy in general toward the Western Hemisphere within the bipolar confrontation IR model. The study is composed in four chronological paragraphs following the most significant social and political events in the Cold War years – Cuban Revolution, Chilean leftist government of Unidad Popular, and Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, which led to the armed confrontation in Central America in the last Cold War decade.