Foreign Influences in Latin America

STRONG foreign influences in Latin America are natural and for the time being inevitable, because of the relatively backward state of economic development of most of the Latin American countries, which causes them to encourage the influx of foreign capital investments and the co-operation of foreigners as technicians as well as permanent immigrants. In some countries in the Caribbean area, e.g., it proves difficult to find enough influential native business men to fill the governing boards of the chambers of commerce. It is clear that under such circumstances trade and financial relations with foreign nations carry a greater importance than in the case of older nations which have a broader material and cultural basis and background. That which matters in the case of the Latin American nations is not only how much and what they trade with foreign countries, but also what foreign nations are most prominent as traders with Latin America, and what are the principal effects-economic as well as other-which result from such relations. Let us consider this briefly

Geography · Latin Americans · Political science · International Relations in Latin America

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