The approach of three latin american countries to the Arab Gulf : Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela

Abstract EN

The countries of Latin amerce spanning two continents (south amerce and North America), do not represent a monolithic block, but have widely ranging cultural traditions and foreign policies.

This article surveys three of the larger countries of Latin America, Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela and a history of their different approaches and strategies in international relations with the Middle East some shared perceptions of how to deal with the petroleum sector.

Not only the modern economy variable, but the shared heritage of Latin America and the Arab world is often quickly glossed over.

It should be readily recalled that Latin America was settled just one generation after Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in al-Andalusia in Liberia was vanquished by the Spanish.

While professing Catholicism, many of the émigrés to Latin America shaed many cultural characteristics with the Arab world from their Arab and Muslim past.