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Latin America during the 19th and 20th Centuries. - Coggle Diagram
Latin America during the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Latin American independence movements in the 19th century
So were the Latin American revolutions, as well as by the ideals and success of the French Revolution itself.
With this the first Latin America country in which they achieved the independence was Haiti, in 1804.
The French Revolution was inspired by the American Revolution and the Enlightenment.
US AND CUBA RELATIONSHIPS DETERIORATED
The U.S. gained a position of economic and political dominance over the island, which persisted after it became formally independent in 1902
Following the Cuban Revolution of 1959, bilateral relations deteriorated substantially.
Under the Treaty of Paris, Cuba became a U.S. protectorate from 1898 to 1902
OPERATION CONDOR
Its key members were the anticommunist dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil, later joined by Peru and Ecuador, with covert support from the U.S. government.
Operation Condor was a military network created in the 1970s to eliminate political opponents of Latin American regimes.
THE DIRTY WAR
Survivors say detainees were sexually abused and subjected to degrading treatment, some had plastic bags placed over their heads to asphyxiate them while others were given electric shocks or subjected to mock executions.
Infamous campaign waged from 1976 to 1983 by Argentina’s military dictatorship against suspected left-wing political opponents.
CIVIL WARS
We take case studies of the Mexican and Cuban revolutions, civil wars in Central America, and other Latin American insurgencies, and examine them from diverse viewpoints while paying close attention to research sources and methods.
This course is a workshop in historical research using primary sources. Thematically it covers the revolutions, civil wars, and political violence in Latin America in the Twentieth Century.
KINDS OF GOVERNMENT OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Roman Catholicism continued to be a powerful force in the second half of the 20th century. Its influence could be seen in the continuing prohibition, almost everywhere, of abortion and in the tendency to play down official support (which nevertheless existed) for birth control campaigns.
Latin America’s democracies, and quasi-democratic Mexico, were politically less vulnerable to economic hard times than the dictatorships: their governments could be and were changed by regular electoral procedures, whereas dictatorial regimes that encountered similar problems had to be removed by other means.