This article aims to analyze the effects of US foreign policy on the Inter-American System of Human Rights. The projection growth international status of the United States during the 20th century as a global power greatly affects relations with Latin America. During this period, there various movements that facilitate the integration of the American continent such such as the Organization of American States and the Inter-American System of Human Rights, which operated instruments such as foreign policy US government to secure its interests in the region.
Although the US has been the main motivator for the creation of the system, in the 60s, the
development and relative success in confronting the violation of Human Rights rights was due to the ability of Latin American states to promote normative thickening of the mechanism.
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