厄瓜多尔前总统、厄瓜多尔发展研究社主任奥斯瓦尔多·乌尔塔多1990年9月3日访问了拉丁美洲研究所,并在中国人民外交学会和拉美所联合举行的报告会上发表了题为《国际新格局下的拉丁美洲》的讲演,引起了与会者的广泛兴趣。乌尔塔多的讲演共分4个部分。他首先谈到国际新格局,认为,随着美苏关系的缓和,战后形成的美苏两极格局已被打破,冷战已经结束。最近爆发的海湾危机也充分说明这一 Oswaldo Hurtado, former president of Ecuador and director of the Ecuadorian Institute for Development Studies, visited the Institute of Latin American Studies on 3 September 1990 and delivered a joint presentation at the joint report of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and Latin America entitled The “Latin America under a new international pattern” gave rise to widespread interest of participants. Hurtado’s speech is divided into 4 parts. He first mentioned the new international pattern. He believed that with the easing of the U.S.-Soviet relations, the post-war pattern of bipolar relations between the United States and the Soviet Union has been broken and the Cold War has ended. The recent Gulf crisis also fully illustrates this