Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-7-2022
Publication Title
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
Abstract
On March 10, President Joe Biden announced that the United States would designate Colombia as a Major Non-NATO Ally. This designation extends special military and economic privileges to Colombia, including participation in joint defense research and training, and the ability to purchase weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and other surplus war material from the United States. This came on the heels of a U.S. delegation traveling to Venezuela for the first time since the United States broke off diplomatic relations and closed its embassy there in 2019. Motivating the U.S. overture is the potential to resume purchasing Venezuelan oil to compensate for the oil no longer being imported from Russia and to drive a wedge between Russia and its most important Latin American ally. These events illustrate an administration scrambling to repair relations with a region that the United States has long neglected and whose support it has taken for granted.
Recommended Citation
Kyle, Brett J. and Reiter, Andrew G., "For Hemispheric Unity, a Change in U.S. Foreign Policy is Needed" (2022). Political Science Faculty Publications. 43.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/poliscifacpub/43
Comments
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