As inferências da política externa estadunidense sobre a América Latina no século XX : o caso do Instituto Cultural Brasileiro Norte Americano – ICBNA/RS

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the inferences of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America by establishing the American binational centers in the mid-1930s. It is understood that the studies that consider the cultural diffusion of the United States in the Latin American continent have a gap regarding the actions of U.S. agencies and organs as well as their representatives in relations with Latin American elites. In this sense, we intend to broaden the perception of the Good Neighbor Policy proposed by the government of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to consider the binational centers as one of the vectors in the American cultural diffusion process in Latin America. Proposes to incorporate a new analytical perspective on the influence of the United States in the Latin American continent from the case study of the Brazilian North - American Cultural Institute (ICBNA), analyzing the details of the creation process of the institution, in addition to mapping the other centers in Latin America. Therefore, we discuss the process in the absence of historiography, in which there are extensive studies on American cultural diffusion through binational institutes or centers.