U.S. Foreign Policy, the Evangelical Far Right and the Spanish-Speaking South American Evangelical Left from 1968–1974; Missions, Praxis, and Money

In the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, evangelicalism rose to prominence as a dominant Protestant movement within the United States and South America. As a result, evangelical figures were forced to confront the socio-political issues that faced South America through different tactics that would seek to resolve instability within the region. This essay offers an intersectional study into the approaches of the American and South American evangelical far-right that influenced Cold War South America from 1968 to 1974, which is not explored within the general body of literature in religious studies. Through the reading of literature produced by and about Billy J. Hargis, Peter Wagner, and René Padilla, this essay argues that theology is a continuation of politics as a mode of operation in religious discourse with historical developments in Latin America and evangelicalism as a whole.