Title: A Conferência do Rio de Janeiro e o Tratado Interamericano de Assistência Recíproca: Conflitos na construção do sistema interamericano
Abstract: This article focuses on the conflicts surrounding the approval of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (ITRA) at the conference held in Rio de Janeiro in 1947.We analyze the draft treaties sent to the Pan-American Union, which were mainly Brazilian, Mexican and from the United States; the preliminary votes taken before the Meeting in the aim of obtaining a consensus among the countries involved; as well as the final text of the ITRA.Our hypothesis is that the final version of the ITRA failed to materialize complete US control over the other members of the Pan-American Union, instead representing a solution reached by means of negotiation in a period of transition from a policy of good neighborliness to a doctrine for containing communism.This context allowed the member countries of the Pan-American Union to assert several of their proposals in spite of opposition from the United States, a situation unlikely to be repeated in the future, with the consolidation of the policy containing communism and US control over the Americas.