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Che's critique of the Organization of American States: from Punta del Este (1961) to Bolivia (2019)
Che Lives! The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics, pp.99-118
Routledge
2026
Abstract
Che's revolutionary solidarity championed the Spirit of Bolivar and Marti across the Latin American Community. Underlying this solidarism was a fervent belief in the potential for an emancipated regional Americas freed of neo-imperialist control. Yet, Che saw this possibility thwarted by the regional hegemony of the US government and its dominance of regional organizations through which it was able to intervene economically and even militarily across its southern neighbours. In this article, we explore Che's critique of the US' dominance of the Organization of American States (OAS) and how this has distorted regional integration in the Latin American Community by focusing on his famous speeches at Punta del Este at the Alliance for Progress (AFP) conference in 1961. We argue that Che's critique remains relevant for analysing regional integration today by highlighting the role of the OAS and its intervention in the Bolivian coup of 2019.
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- Title
- Che's critique of the Organization of American States: from Punta del Este (1961) to Bolivia (2019)
- Authors
- Shannon Brincat - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyJuan Z. N. Cáceres
- Contributors
- Shannon Brincat (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Che Lives! The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics, pp.99-118
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003471554-7; 10.4324/9781003471554
- ISBN
- 9781003471554
- Copyright note
- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991136291802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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