Entre pragmatismo y la denuncia: Checoslovaquia y los regímenes militares del Cono Sur

MICHAL ZOUREK

Poder y conflictividad social en América Latina

Karolinum

Lugar: Praga; Año: 2016; p. 127 - 142

Abstract: The studyanalyzes the policy of Czechoslovakia towards the military regimes ofArgentina, Chile andUruguay in the 1970s and 1980s. The presentations of the military regimes in theCzechoslovak media are compared, by means of archival documents, to the practicalpolicy of Prague towards these three countries. The analysis of the Czechoslovakposition gives an unequivocal answer to the question why the Soviet Bloc states weretaking completely different approaches to each of these antagonistic regimescharacterized by massive violations of human rights. The policy of the Soviet Bloc was drivenby pragmatic interests and the violations of human rights were thus reflectedparticularly in terms of communist propaganda so as to avoid possible negative economicconsequences.