This article draws on an international assemblage of sources to recover the history of the involvement of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) in the Cuban missile crisis. It argues that, through the mechanisms of the OAS and the UN, Latin American citizens and officials helped shape the peaceful outcome of the crisis. This article challenges dismissive portrayals of both Latin American countries and multilateral organisations and, in so doing, joins the growing literature on how supposedly weak Latin American countries have used international organisations to influence world affairs.
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Keller, R. (2019). ‘Responsibility of the Great Ones’: How the organization of American states and the united nations helped resolve the Cuban missile crisis. Journal of Latin American Studies, 51(4), 883–904. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X19000300
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