Latin+America

1)Outline Economic, Political, and Social Developments

 * == Economic == || == Political == || == Social == ||
 * === · African slaves used to harvest the sugar in Cuba ===

· Castro transforms Cuba’s economy, so that it is able to succeed in world trade
|| === · PRI gains power in Mexico ===

· Brings communism to Cuba and develops a socialist economy using collectivized farm-
|| === -Cuba had a good health care system as well as literacy rate amoung its population ===

-Zapatistas were a guerrila movemnt in Guatemala that responded to repression
||

2) Chart on Latin America

Change Analysis Chart: Latin America 1914 ~ Present  Key Continuities || Basic Features at the End of the Period || Causes and effects || > Gov’t systems > Styles of control
 * Theme || Basic features at beginning of period || Key Changes
 * Political

> Controls over other entities || Republic > Argentina  Socialism (Marxist) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cuba

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Communism + Self developing nations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -1910 Mexican revolution sets in motion example of the trend of revolutions and change in politics in Latin America in the 20th century

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Since 1876 regime of Porfirio Diaz was a dictatorship in Mexico that had been unshakable

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Mexican constitution of 1917 promises land reforms limited foreign ownersships of key reasources, and guarentees rights to workers || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Changes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. Dictatorship rule - Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batisa -> presidency (Socialist rule)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. This formation of populism and socialism being taken over by democracy and capitalism for communism was beginning to collapse under the SU rule. - The US intervention

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. United States exerting power over democratic nations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Continuities

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Soldiers + popular movement against authoritarian government = revolutions

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use of centralized leader/ruler and idea of possession and colonization. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communism

> Cuba (Cold war influence by the SU + Kruschev take over of missile sites)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Democracy (United States) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Argentina

> Brazil > Peru > Mexico - Post revolutionary Mexico)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Populism

> SA - too vague ... || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Argentine violent opposition to military rule => democratic

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ernesto Guevara and Fidel Castro took over Cuba=> socialist regime, anti-imperialist

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Collapse of SU led to the downfall of Communism and socialism and intervention of the United States led to the increased pattern of Democracy within the new market economy of Latin American Nations b/c of control.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> World War + World War 2 led to cold war + influence by colonization and buffering border states.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Religious implications with the Church ending in Mexico and secularization ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Social || societies were viewed as “ third world”

Poor health conditionas lower class

Independence Movements Cuba in making of partial revolutions

agricultural slave trade

Liberation Theology which was the cooperation for social justice within the power of the church

Independance in these nations largely does not upset the preincluding || Back track of gender patterns for women: Lower class || New identities being formed as a result of increased globalization The majority of people are low-class, leading to social conflict women gained more rights, suffrage conversion of Western Social Democratic parties to neo-liberalism, and the subordination of the trade unions to the neo-liberal state economic crisis caused so much loss to so many workers, employees, small businesses, farmers and professionals with so little large-scale public protest || New leaders brought new offerings to countries ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Economic ||  ||   ||   ||   ||