Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yakin Cacar Baki ya sami sakamako mai mahimmanci a Kudancin Amurka, wanda Amurka ta ɗauka a matsayin cikakken ɓangare na Yankin Yammacin Turai, akasin Yankin Gabas, rabuwa da aka haifa tare da ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na II da taron Yalta. Bayan Juyin Juya Halin Cuba na 1959 da aiwatar da gida a kasashe da yawa na ka'idar foco na Che Guevara, Amurka ta yi yaƙi a Kudancin Amurka a kan "Communists subversives", wanda ya haifar da goyon baya a Chile na dama, wanda zai ƙare da juyin mulkin 1973 a Chile. A cikin 'yan shekaru, dukan Kudancin Amirka an rufe su da irin wannan mulkin kama karya na soja, da ake kira "juntas". A Paraguay, Alfredo Stroessner ya kasance a kan mulki tun 1954; a Brazil, an hambarar da shugaban hagu João Goulart ta hanyar juyin mulkin soja a 1964; a Bolivia, Janar Hugo Banzer ya hambarar da Janar Juan José Torres na hagu a 1971; a Uruguay, wanda aka ɗauka a matsayin "Switzerland" na Kudancin Amurka, Juan María Bordaberry ya karɓi iko a cikin juyin mulkin 27 ga Yuni 1973. An gudanar da "Yakin Basira" a duk faɗin nahiyar, wanda ya ƙare da Operation Condor, yarjejeniya tsakanin ayyukan tsaro na Kudancin Kudancin, wasu ƙasashen Kudancin Amirka, da gwamnatin Amurka wanda ya ba da horo don murkushewa da kashe abokan adawar siyasa na cikin gida. A shekara ta 1976, sojoji sun kwace mulki a Ajantina kuma sun goyi bayan "Cocaine Coup" na Luis García Meza Tejada a Bolivia a shekarar 1980, kafin horar da Contras a Nicaragua inda Sandinista National Liberation Front, wanda Daniel Ortega ya jagoranta, ya karbi iko a shekarar 1979. An yi irin wannan juyin mulki a Guatemala
da kuma El Salvador. A cikin 1980s, duk da haka, halin da ake ciki ya ci gaba a duniya kamar yadda yake a Kudancin Amirka, duk da sabuntawar Cold War daga 1979 zuwa 1985, shekarar da Gorbachev ya maye gurbin Konstantin Chernenko a matsayin shugaban USSR.