Security & Strategic Review - July 2005
From an imagined US base to the real ones
p>July witnessed the appearance and rapid spread of a 'report' that the US was preparing to establish a military base deep in the Paraguayan Chaco. Based on a small kernel of truth most of the story was complete fabrication, but it tapped into a perception that appears to have taken root in nationalist and leftwing circles in Latin America: that the US is pursuing its 'hegemonic project' by ringing the hemisphere with military bases. Lost in all this is the actual nature of the US military presence in the region.
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