Latin America

Argentina

A military Junta was Established by General Videla

Flakland Islands

Domingo Perón

Brazil

Independence was throughout movement of portuguese prince to Brazil

Political and social instability led to a military

"Brazilian economic miracle"

In 2008 they become the largest economy in SA

Chile

Salvador Allende by socialist party

Nationalization of Key Industry Sectors

General Augusto Pinochet adopts neoliberalism

Michelle Bachelet, Sebastian Piñeras

Peru

Juan Velasco Alvarado reached power by a coup d'etat, he made Agrarian and Educational Reforms.

Military Junta

Shining Path

Economic Instability with Alan Garcia 1985-1990 and 2006-2011

Colombia

"La Violencia"

Economical Crisis

FARC, ELN

Drug supplier since 1970

Bolivia

Political instability ten presidents in four years

Poorest country in SA

Evo Morales first Indian descendant president, was reelected and economy moves on

Venezuela

Because the dependance on oil sale, crisis came when the prices came down

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

El Salvador

"Soccer War"

Coffee as the most important product of the region

General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

Civil War and Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

Nicaragua

Frente Sandinista de Reconstrucción Nacional deposed in 1979 the Somoza Regime

Somoza's Regime

Thanks to Oscar Arias Violeta Chamorro was elected president by democratic means

Honduras

Military rule in the XX century

Manuel Zelaya is deposed as president and instead Roberto Micheletti took place, then Porfirio Lobo became president

"Soccer War"

Race, is the mixture of europeans, africans and indigenous people

Religion, a term known as Syncretism, that refers to the combination of Catholicisn, African and Indian beliefs

Lenguage, almost every country speaks Spanish, with exception of Brazil

History, they share similar things like: Independence followed by political inestability, world market incorporation, CEPAL, Closed Economy, The Lost Years and Open Economy.

Mexican Revolution 1910

Perfect PRI party in the power, they reign 71 years

Economic Growth in 1950's

Oil sale Mexico's based economy

End of PRI regime with the election of Vicente Fox candidate of the conservative party

Calderon's war against Organized Crime

Cuba

Removement of Fulgencio Baptista's dictatorship

Fidel Castro and Raul Castro's dictatorship

Strengthening of ties with Venezuela with the ALBA treatment

Cuba's economy seemed affected when the URSS collapsed

Bay of pigs, Missile crisis, US blockade for Cuba's economics

Domminican Republic

Characterized by having many dictators

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo set by US