NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1977/03/03

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• Publication Date: March 3, 1977

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National Intelligence Daily Cable for Thursday, March 3, 1977.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Resentment of US
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SOUTH AMERICA: Resentment of US
US policies on human rights and nuclear proliferation
are arousing deep resentment in southern South America. The US
stance on these issues seems certain to add to the already pro-
nounced tendency of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and to some extent
Brazil to draw closer together because of their commoa problems
and perceptions of the outside world.
//The US decision to reduce aid to Argentina and
Uruguay because of human rights abuses has drawn an angry reac-
tion in both Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Both governments an-
nounced their intention to refuse the lower levels of aid still
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available to them. Uruguay termed the US move unjustified inter-
ference in its internal affairs; both Argentina and Uruguay said
the action could aid the cause of subversion.//
//Brazil, already smarting over US efforts to
limit its access to foreign nuclear technology, is taking a dim
view of the cuts in aid to its neighbors. Though not directly
affected, the Brazilians undoubtedly see the reductions as an-
other example of US "intrusion" in the area's affairs.//
//Brazil's military-backed government, moreover,
may well believe that it too could come in for serious US pres-
sure on human rights.
US efforts to influence the Brazilians on the nuclear
issue also are having an unsettling effect in Argentina. Instead
of applauding a move that could conceivably arrest the nuclear
progress of their traditional Brazilian rivals, the Argentines
are expressing solidarity with Brazil. The Argentines obviously
realize that their own imports of nuclear equipment could make
them susceptible to similar pressures.
Argentina may see in the present situation an oppor-
tunity to rebuild its regional influence by capitalizing on re-
sentment of US efforts. In addition to expressing solidarity
with the Brazilians, Argentina is quietly suggesting itself as
an alternative source of nuclear know-how and natural uranium
for the region. Argentina's nuclear technology, though limited
by world standards, is the most advanced in the region and its
uranium is plentiful.
nuclear
The Argentines are also reviving earlier proposals for
cooperation with Brazil and Chile, with Argentina playing
a central role. The idea may be hard for the Brazilians to accept,
but the Argentines seem serious about exploring it.
The sense of physical isolation from most of the world
that has always existed in southern South American has been ac-
centuated in recent years by the growing distaste in the US and
in some European countries for the kinds of governments that hold
sway in the region. The latest US actions will increase this sense
of isolation.
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All the countries of the area are administered by con-
servative regimes that are run or dominated by the countries'
military establishments. Most of the regimes came into being in
response to real or perceived threats from the left, and all
justify their methods by citing a continuing threat from commu-
nism.
The leaders of these countries believe they are being
abandoned by the US, the country that had frequently warned them
in the past of the dangers of communism.
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