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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