Henry Kissinger en las guerras del Sáhara Occidental y Timor Oriental

This paper analyzes the role played by Kissinger in the conflicts in Western Sahara and East Timor. The Secretary of State and national security adviser during the end of Nixon’s term and under the Ford presidency was decisive for Indonesia and Morocco to undertake the invasion of both territories. The article shows the conversations held by Kissinger with Suharto and Hasan II, and with other heads of the respective governments, and through them the active role played by the Secretary of State in the beginning of both wars is demonstrated. The reasons of imperial geopolitics and the fight against communism were behind the decisive North American support for the expansionist policies of its allies.