Adams Doctrine, 24

ALBA (Alianza Bolívariana para las Américas––Bolívarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America), 2–3, 10, 32–33, 49, 60–61, 67, 81–82, 91–93, 103–104, 108–110, 114–120, 122–135, 170

ALBA Bank, 117–118

Alfonsin, Raul, 24

Allende, Salvador, 23, 106

Alliance for Progress, 66

Alvarado, Juan Velazco, 21

American Enterprise Institute, 10, 39, 42, 47–48, 50, 61, 64–65

Andean Community, 129

Anglophone Caribbean, 102

Antigua and Barbuda, 3

Arbenz, Jacobo, 18

Arias, Oscar, 8, 60, 164

Association of Caribbean States (ACS), 24, 109, 124

Austin, Hudson, 25

Bachelet, Verónica Michelle, 50, 126

Bank of the South (BANCOSUR), 3, 118, 170

Barbados, 21, 106, 125

Barrio Adentro program, 81, 115

Barrow, Errol, 21

Bay of Pigs, 20

Bishop, Maurice, 25

Bolívar, Simón, 102

Bolívarianism, 124

Bolivarian revolution, 68

Bolivia, 3, 30, 32, 44, 49, 50–51, 61, 66, 81–82, 95, 115–117, 126–127, 151, 164

Brazil, 3, 5, 7–8, 24–25, 27–30, 33, 47–49, 51, 56, 61–63, 78, 114, 126–130, 151, 157–158, 170

British Commonwealth, 125

Brookings Institution, 4, 42, 44, 49, 56–57, 63, 65, 67

Burnham, Forbes, 21

Bush, George H.W., 49

Bush, George W., 4–5, 7, 31, 39–42, 47, 49–50, 53–54, 58–59, 61, 64, 67, 76, 86, 132, 150–151, 153–155, 161, 163–164

Calderón, Felipe, 7, 151

Campora, Hector, 21

Canada, 20, 27–28, 41, 92, 106, 113–114, 119

Cardenas, Lazaro, 20

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 29, 48

Caribbean Basin, 9, 103, 124–125, 132

Caribbean Community (CARICOM), 25, 83, 124–126

Caribbean–European Union Summit, 92

Carter, Jimmy, 4, 21–22, 40, 74, 173

Castro, Fidel, 11, 17, 19–20, 23, 26–27, 29, 33, 48, 52, 78, 108–109, 122, 132, 135–136, 141, 173–174

Castro, Raúl, 11, 52, 75, 77–78, 173–174