Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Hondo Yemashoko yaiva nemigumisiro inokosha muSouth America, yairangarirwa neUnited States kuva rutivi rwakakwana rweWestern Bloc, mukupesana neEastern Bloc, kupatsanurwa kwakaberekwa nekuguma kweHondo Yenyika II neYalta Conference. Kutevera 1959 Cuban Revolution uye kushandiswa kwemunharaunda munyika dzinoverengeka dzeChe Guevara's foco theory, US yakatanga hondo muSouth America kurwisana ne "Communist subversives", inotungamirira kutsigiro muChile yekurudyi, iyo yaizoguma ne 1973 coup muChile. Mumakore mashomanene, South America yose yakafukidzwa noutongi hwakadaro hwamauto, hunonzi "juntas". MuParaguay, Alfredo Stroessner akanga ari musimba kubvira muna 1954; muBrazil, mutungamiri weparutivi rworuboshwe João Goulart akakandirwa pasi nechisimba chemauto muna 1964; muBolivia, General Hugo Banzer akakandirwa pasi mutungamiri weparutivi rworuboshwe Juan José Torres muna 1971; muUruguay, inonzi "Switzerland" yeSouth America, Juan María Bordaberry akatora simba muna June 27th 1973 coup. "Hondo Yakasviba" yakaitwa mukondinendi yose, yakaguma neOperation Condor, chibvumirano pakati pemasangano ezvokuchengetedzwa kweSouthern Cone, dzimwe nyika dzeSouth America, nehurumende yeU.S. iyo yakapa kurovedza kudzvinyirira nokuponda vavengi vezvematongerwe enyika vomunyika. Muna 1976, mauto akatora simba muArgentina uye akatsigira 1980 "Cocaine Coup" yaLuis García Meza Tejada muBolivia, asati adzidzisa maContras muNicaragua uko Sandinista National Liberation Front, inotungamirirwa naDaniel Ortega, yakanga yatora simba muna 1979. Kuchinja kwechiuto kwakafanana kwakaitika mu
Guatemala neEl Salvador. Mumakore okuma1980, zvisinei, mamiriro ezvinhu akachinja zvishoma nezvishoma munyika yose sezviri muSouth America, pasinei nokuvandudzwa kweHondo Yemashoko kubva muna 1979 kusvika muna 1985, gore iro Gorbachev akatsiva Konstantin Chernenko somutungamiriri weUSSR.