A Preponderance of Politics: The Auténtico Governments and US–Cuban Economic Relations, 1945–1951.

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      This article analyses the bilateral economic negotiations between Washington and Havana during the era of the Cuban PRCA (Auténtico) governments led by Ramón Grau San Martín and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1944–52). This work shows that, initially, the PRCA governments took advantage of the economic bargaining capacity that Cuba had developed with Washington during the Good Neighbor era, but after 1947 this declined as the Truman administration's Cold War foreign policy agenda assigned only a marginal position to Latin America and Cuba. Havana's inability to obtain further economic support from the United States had a powerful destabilising effect, complicating Cuba's economic governance and delegitimising the PRCA politically. The study of this episode enhances our comprehension of a period largely overlooked by the historiography on Cuba and our understanding of the demise of the Auténtico project, the last attempt to transform Cuba's social structures in a progressive and democratic manner. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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      Este artículo estudia las negociaciones económicas bilaterales entre Washington y La Habana durante la época de los gobiernos cubanos del PRCA (Auténtico) encabezados por Ramón Grau San Martín y Carlos Prío Socarrás (1944–52). Este trabajo muestra que, inicialmente, los gobiernos del PRCA aprovecharon de la capacidad de negociaciones económicas que Cuba había desarrollado con Washington durante la época ‘Good Neighbor’ (política de buen vecino), pero que después de 1947 esta capacidad disminuyó cuando la agenda de relaciones exteriores de la administración de Truman durante la Guerra Fría designó a América Latina y a Cuba un papel solamente marginal. La incapacidad de Cuba para obtener más apoyo económico de los Estados Unidos tuvo un fuerte efecto desestabilizador, complicando el gobierno económico y arriesgando la legitimidad política del PRCA. El estudio de este acontecimiento aumenta nuestra comprensión de una época pasada por alto en buena parte por la historiografía sobre Cuba y nuestro entendimiento de la desaparición del proyecto Auténtico, el último intento para transformar las estructuras sociales de Cuba de manera progresiva y democrática. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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