Russian Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Twenty-first Century

A comprehensive examination of Russia's foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that, while interstate relations varied in the first quarter of the twenty-first century with shifts in the international environment and the foreign and domestic sociopolitical situation, this policy was symbolic, ill-considered, and reactive. Post-Soviet Russia has not created a system of partnerships in the region that would ensure the stability of foreign policy outcomes in the face of fluctuations of the regional conjuncture. Un analisis exhaustivo de la politica exterior de Rusia en America Latina y el Caribe muestra que, si bien las relaciones interestatales variaron en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI con cambios en el entorno internacional y la situacion sociopolitica exterior e interna, esta politica fue simbolica, poco recomendable y reactiva. La Rusia postsovietica no ha creado un sistema de asociaciones en la region que garantice la estabilidad de los resultados en politica exterior ante las fluctuaciones de la coyuntura regional.