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SOUTH AMERICA

The political history of Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru in the late 20th and early 21st centuries reveals a complex interplay of democracy, economic challenges, and internal conflict.

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

COLOMBIA

2010 Juan Manuel Santos
defense minister of alvaro uribe
2002 Alvaro Uribe
conflict with ecuador when colombian army crossed the border to persecute the FARC
2006 reelected
start strong front against cartels and guerrilas
FARC got involved drug production
1200 US military assistance against drug trade
1990 CEsar Gavina
intrauration of neoliberalism
liberal party
1980 unprecedent level of violence
1970 drug cartels
Medellin
Cali
National Liberation Army and Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces were created
"la violencia" 1946-64
ends with negotiation to share the power
Liberals vs Conservatives
elite of coffee plantation owners

VENEZUELA

Hugo Chávez 1998
nationalization of key sectors of the industry with no regard to foreign assets involved in them

cement

steel

electricity

telecommunications

petroleum

he could run for president in 2012
2009 referendum where term limitations for presidency where eliminated
his government kept close ties with Cuba and Iran
2002 attempt to remove him from office
he won the support of the working class
he installed a populist regime with non expenses on education and food coupons
Luis Herrera Campins and Carlos Andres Perez
had to deal with the defeated exports and increase on inflation capital flight and unemployment
country´s economic dependence on oil revenues
uninterrupted democracy since 1985
never affected by a dictatorship in the XX century

BOLIVIA

2005 Evo Morales
2009 re-elected
devaluation of boliviano under control
economy growing
railroads and mines 2007
nationalization of the oil industry in 2006
more rights for the indigenous comunities
advocated to more taxes on the wealther population
leftist reform
first bolivian president to come from indigenous descent
2002 SAnchez de Lozada
he resigned next year
peasant rebellion
1989 Paz Zamora
fear of loosing US support against drug traffic
domestic production of food and raw materials
neoliberal policies
Paz Estenssoro
opened the door to foreign investment
he dismantled thestate owned mining industry
1985
open door to drug trafficking (economic alternative)
"el Niño" destroyed agricultar production
banks almost had to close their doors
mining industry was colapsing
hyperinflation reached unprecedent levels
between 1978 and 1982, 10 different governments were in charge of the country(military ones including)
poorest country in south america

PERU

2001 Alejandro Toledo
first indigenous president
1990 Alberto Fujimori
fought against terrorism
1992 "self-administered coup"
1985 Alan Garcia
insurgence became bigger problem
1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry
shining path
civil government
1975 military took control
economic crisis
1968 Juan Velasco Alvarado
nationalistic government
agrarian reform and educational reform
took over peru in a coup d'etat

CHILE

2010 Sebastian Piñera
first conservative to be elected after Pinochet
2006 Michelle Bachelet
students demanding better education
socialist and divorcé
first female president in chile
1990 Patricio Aylwin became president
1980n pressure by catholic church that condemned the abuse to human rights
september 11, 1973 military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet
he introduced the neoliberal model
he ended the first democratically socialist government in Chile
19 70 Salvador Allende
the richer sectors allied with the military in a coup defeat to depose Allende
he made radical reforms regarding agriculture and the expropiation and the nationalization or key industries sectors
socialist party

BRAZIL

2008 Brazil become south amercia largest economy
2002 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
first leftist in four decades
1989 Fernando Collor de Mello
two years later he resigned (corruption scandal)
won the first elections since 1960
1985 external debt and inflation rate 800%
1968 brazilian "economic miracle"
military dictatorship caused by political and social inestability 1964-1985
was born as a result of portuguese colonization

ARGENTINA

2007 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
wife former president Nestor Kirchner
first female president in argentina
1999 Fernando de la Rúa
civil riots led him to resign
faced intense economic crisis
1989 Carlos Saul Menem
made important changes to the constitution, presidental re-election
assumed duties in the midst a major economic crisis
1938 Raul Alfonsin
he inherited the effects of the 1982 crisis in Latin America
1982 conflict with GB over the control of the Fakland Islands(islas malvinas)
1977 meeting in Plaza de mayo
1976 military took power headed by General Videla
1946 Juan Domingo Perón
He established and authoritarian and populist regime.
Oligarchy based on growing wheat and raising cattle. supported by army.