Latin America at the 60s

Latin American
Economies

The Counterinsurgency

Insurgent Stage

Christians for
liberation

Beginnings of
Integration

The Cuban
revolution

The agrarian structures suffered
from modernization, capitalism to
this sector and farms became modern
enterprises and farmers migrated to
the cities.

Industrialization in Latin America was
aimed at substituting imports. Cities
grew due to migration and industries,
so they had few services and a population
without permanent employment.

Workers' organizations
allied to left-wing
parties grew and
guerrillas emerged.

In the 1940s, armed movements
appeared in Colombia. After the
overthrow of General Rojas
Pinilla, conservatives and liberals
alternated in power.

In the 1950s, ECLAC was very influential, focusing on economic development based on agricultural modernization and industrialization.

Venezuela, a military coup
brought Marcos Perez to power,
ruled the Democratic Action and
Christian Democracy, its figures were
Romulo Gallegos and Rafael Caldera.

Paraguay, Stroessner
dictatorship.


Ecador, in an economic crisis,
the military took power.

Bolivia 1952, the Nationalist
Revolutionary Movement
begins a political change.

Brazil, President Getulio Vargas
did not meet everyone's
expectations and committed
suicide.

Guatemala, the government
of Jacobo Arbenz suffered a coup
by the (CIA).

The "26th of July" movement led
by Fidel Castro and Ernesto
Guevara overthrew Batista in 1959.

Cuba was in conflict with the U.S.
and Castro announced that the
revolution was communist and
united with the USSR.

Guerrilla actions began. Meanwhile,
the United States isolated Cuba,
causing it to be expelled from the OAS
and the countries of the USSR to break
off relations .

There were U.S. sponsored dictatorships,
they persecuted leftist leaders, among
other things.

In the 1960s, ECLAC had a great
impetus. LAFTA did not make much
progress. In 1969, the Andean Pact
was founded, followed by the
Central American Common Market.

The movement of "Christians for liberation"
emerged. Religious communities fought
against capitalism and Liberation
Theology developed.

It was based on the idea that Christ came to liberate people from sin and the oppression of some peoples. Some important bishops were Helder Cámara y Fragoso, Méndez Arceo, Leonidas Proaño.