ABSTRACT
This article analyses Argentina’s foreign policy regarding World War II and its repercussion on the country’s geopolitics in relation to Rio da Prata. The central argument of the article is that the Argentine neutrality in the conflict meant the refusal by Buenos Aires in accepting Presidents’s Roosevelt initiative of a pan-Americanism towards the American Hemisphere of containing the nazifascism under the leadership of the United States. In opposition to the hemispheric policy of Roosevelt, Argentina countered the economic integration project of Rio da Prata, in which Brazil and Chile were supposed to take part. This group of countries would work as an instrument for containing the United States presence in South America, besides serving as a market for Argentine products.
KEYWORDS:
Rio da Prata and World War II; Argentina and World War II; Argentinian geopolitics and Rio da Prata