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Background of Latin America
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History: Argentina is highest income, Haiti is lowest.
-This regions has highest income inequality Economic Conditions: shown economic growth through Import Substitution Industrialization. Successful for 20 years. Ended up failing, LA had to depend heavily on borrowing foreign commercial bank loans. Accumulated ALOT of foreign debt. Politics and Human Rights: authoritarian governments dominated history. Recently very democratic, but imperfect. (presidential systems) -not pluralistic - dominated by elite, which partly explains high degree of inequality. |
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The Giants
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Brazil and Mexico
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Current Issues
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-drug wars
-deforestation of amazon river valley -economic growth has been strong -however much has come from high world commodity prices - Social problems have incurred immense damages to the region’s socioeconomic development. Latin America has been suffering from the grave social problem for a long time. Mexico : multiple massacres in history and the recent one on student. |
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Gini coefficient
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- is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income distribution of a nation’s residents, and is the most commonly used for measure of inequality.
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Enrique Peña Nieto
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- president of Mexico since 2012. Member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The return of the PRI was not welcomed by everyone. tens of thousands of people marched against Peña Nieto. The PRI had become a symbol of corruption, repression, and electoral fraud.
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Luiz Lula da Silva
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- president of Brazil from 2002-2011. Founding member of the workers’ party (PT). Regarded as one of the most popular politicians in the history of Brazil. Popular for social programs such as Bolsa Familia and Fome Zero.
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Dilma Rousseff
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- current president of Brazil. Founded the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). In 2000 she left the PDT and joined the Workers’ Party.
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Hugo Chávez
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- president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Leader of the Fifth Republic Movement from its foundation in 1997 until 2007 when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, which he led until 2012.
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