&gt; Latin America was not actually aligned with the US and the First World during the Cold War era.<p>Much of Latin America was, as demonstrated by the 1962 OAS resolution prohibiting participation by the Government of Cuba (without actually expelling Cuba), <i>explicitly</i> on the basis that &quot;adherence by any member of the Organization of American States to Marxism-Leninism is incompatible with the inter-American system and the alignment of such a government with the communist bloc breaks the unity and solidarity of the continents&quot;.