Entre Santiago y Belgrado. Redes, amistades y desencuentros entre la Yugoslavia de Tito y los socialistas chilenos en las décadas de 1950 y 1960

Abstract

This article studies the relations between Yugoslavia and the Chilean socialists between the 1950s and 1960s. While Yugoslavia needed new international allies after breaking ties with the Soviet Union, the Chilean socialists were searching for new international referents to consolidate their internal strategic lines. The ideological affinity strengthened and in-creased the level of political relations between agents from both countries, including official trips and publications. However, in the 1960s, these ties began to be overshadowed by socialist Cuba, critical of the rather moderate Yugoslav approach to non-alignment and foreign policy. Chilean socialism would end up choosing that revolutionary and insurrectionary rhetoric over Yugoslav ideas.