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Latin America

Latin America has experienced significant political and economic upheavals throughout its history. The region's countries, including Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile, have faced periods of political instability often marked by military interventions.

Latin America

Latin America

The Caribean

Domminican Republic
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo set by US
Characterized by having many dictators
Cuba
Bay of pigs, Missile crisis, US blockade for Cuba's economics
Cuba's economy seemed affected when the URSS collapsed
Strengthening of ties with Venezuela with the ALBA treatment
Fidel Castro and Raul Castro's dictatorship
Removement of Fulgencio Baptista's dictatorship

México

Calderon's war against Organized Crime
End of PRI regime with the election of Vicente Fox candidate of the conservative party
Oil sale Mexico's based economy
Economic Growth in 1950's
Perfect PRI party in the power, they reign 71 years
Mexican Revolution 1910

Features of the region

History, they share similar things like: Independence followed by political inestability, world market incorporation, CEPAL, Closed Economy, The Lost Years and Open Economy.
Lenguage, almost every country speaks Spanish, with exception of Brazil
Religion, a term known as Syncretism, that refers to the combination of Catholicisn, African and Indian beliefs
Race, is the mixture of europeans, africans and indigenous people

Central America

Honduras
Manuel Zelaya is deposed as president and instead Roberto Micheletti took place, then Porfirio Lobo became president
Military rule in the XX century
Nicaragua
Thanks to Oscar Arias Violeta Chamorro was elected president by democratic means
Somoza's Regime
Frente Sandinista de Reconstrucción Nacional deposed in 1979 the Somoza Regime
El Salvador
Civil War and Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
Coffee as the most important product of the region
"Soccer War"

South America

Venezuela
Hugo Chavez made a populist regime, US disapprove the regime and by referendums population decided to maintain him in power and to run for 2012
Because the dependance on oil sale, crisis came when the prices came down
Bolivia
Evo Morales first Indian descendant president, was reelected and economy moves on
Poorest country in SA
Political instability ten presidents in four years
Colombia
Drug supplier since 1970
FARC, ELN
Economical Crisis
"La Violencia"
Peru
Economic Instability with Alan Garcia 1985-1990 and 2006-2011
Shining Path
Military Junta
Juan Velasco Alvarado reached power by a coup d'etat, he made Agrarian and Educational Reforms.
Chile
Michelle Bachelet, Sebastian Piñeras
General Augusto Pinochet adopts neoliberalism
Nationalization of Key Industry Sectors
Salvador Allende by socialist party
Brazil
In 2008 they become the largest economy in SA
"Brazilian economic miracle"
Political and social instability led to a military
Independence was throughout movement of portuguese prince to Brazil
Argentina
Domingo Perón
Flakland Islands
A military Junta was Established by General Videla