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Salvador Allende |
Was president of Chile from 1970-1973 Until he was overthrown on Sept 11, 1973 by Augusto Pinochet. He was the first marxist elected president by popular vote in Latin America. |
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Augusto Pinochet |
Was higher up gerneral in Chile and was a major leader in overthrowing Salvador Allende, with secret help from the US, and was dictator of Venezuela after his death. |
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Jacobo Arbenz |
Was President of Guatemala from 1951-54. Was a sympathizer for the communist party. The US CIA tried to coup him using Nicuraguan and Honduras forces. He fled to mexico on June 27, 1954. US replaced him with Carlos Castillo Armas |
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Simon Bolivar |
Was the great "Liberator". He was the main face of the liberation of Latin america from Spain. Was originally set to combine all of the Latin American Countries as one large one but finally accepted the differences. Was able to write a declaration for Venezuela in 1815. |
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Porfirio Diaz |
Was a president of Mexico from 1876-1911. He was a dictator but since he sympathized with the US, the US recognized his regime. He overall "helped" Mexico by hurting the poor. He was overthrown in 1911 due to his lies of "real democracy" and was taken over by Francisco I. Madero. |
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Benito Juarez |
Was president of Mexico from 1858-1872 and was seen as a mix of both a dictator and a great leader. He helped create a liberal constitution and helped protect mexico from foreign threats. |
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Francisco Madero |
President of Mexico from 1911-1913. He was known as the father of the Revolution due to his honesty and ideas. He was assassinated in 1913 by political challengers but was always remembered as a face of the Mexican Revolution. |
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Eva Peron |
First lady of Argentina (1945-52) wife of Juan Peron. Eva Perón used her position as first lady to fight for causes she believed in, including women's suffrage and improving the lives of the poor. she died in 1952 from cervical cancer. |
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Juan Domingo Peron |
was president of argentina from 1945-52 then was overthrown and went to spain. But came back in 1972 due to his loyal "paronismo" (political party formed to be loyal to him even in exile) was reelected president in 1973. he died in 1974. |
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Raul Prebisch |
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Juan Manuel de Rosas |
From argentina, Bueno Aeres and gained power there in 1829 until his final overthrow in 1852. He was the original "prototype" for the 20th century dictators. |
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Augusto Sandino |
Was a well know rebellious fighter who was highly opposed to the US involvement in the Nicaraguan government. He was killed by the National guardsmen in 1933 |
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Domingo Sarmiento |
was a large enemy of Juan Manuel de Rosas and was exiled to Chile in 1840. came back in 1852 to help overthrow Rosas nd became president of Argentina in 1868.He ended the war with Paraguay and brought education to a largely illiterate country. |
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Emiliano Zapata |
Was a face in the agrarian revolution in Mexico and was allied with Madero until he told him to disarm his army! which he then set out a plan to get rid of Madero. and later died in 1919. |
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castas |
Was they way the named people in Mexico, based on their skin color (mestizo, mulatto) around 1812 early coloniazation of spain to mexico. |
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Constitution of 1917 (mexico) |
drafter in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico and was a successor to the 1857 constitution. was passed Feb 1917. |
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dirty wars |
Internal wars almost like a civil war except its very one sided in terms of whose really fighting and there are often times where citizens are thrown into the middle Argentina (1970s-eaerly 80s) |
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Good Neighbor Policy |
In 1933, the U.S. abandoned an aggressive and militaristic foreign policy approach to Latin America. In President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural speech in March of that year, he spoke of 'the policy of the good neighbor' in international relations. |
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Heroic Guerrilla |
March 5th 1960 in Cuba. Photo of Che Guevarra portrayed as "hero" and familiarized this image into recent pop culture paraphernalia |
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Import substitution industrialization (ISI) |
Import substitution industrialization (ISI) is a trade and economic policy which advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production. ... ISI policies were enacted by countries in the Global South with the intention of producing development and self-sufficiency through the creation of an internal market. Latin America following WW2 (late 1940s-early 1950s) |
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july 26th movement cuba |
The 26th of July Movement was a vanguard revolutionary organization led by Fidel Castro that in 1959 overthrew the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba. The Movement fought the Batista regime on both rural and urban fronts |
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La Onda |
La Onda (The Wave) was a multidisciplinary artistic movement created in Mexico by artists and intellectuals as part of the world-wide waves of the counterculture of the 1960s and the avant-garde. Its followers were called "onderos", "macizos" or "jipitecas". |
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Monroe Doctrine |
1823 Monroe said he would no longer allow european interest in the americas. solidified the relations between US and latin America |
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Mothers of the Disappeared |
1977 argentina used to take anyone who said anything bad until these mothers of the disappeared portested for "the truth" about the government being a dictatorship and silencing people |
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neo-liberalism |
chile 1971 making business the main interest of government and promoting business tade |
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Roosevelt Corollary (to monroe doc) |
The Corollary gave the United States the police power needed to interfere in the Western Hemisphere when needed. On December 6, 1904, President Rooseveltpresented his Fourth Annual Message to Congress, his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Justified the American intervention in the western hempisphere |
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tlateloco Massacre |
oct 1968 students were protesting the violence of the Maxican police from an earlier event but since the olympics was coming to mexico they didnt want to seem out of control and "handled" the situation as such. killing an unknown larger number of students |
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Tupamaros |
was a geurilla group in Uruguay in the 1963 and was originally being a good geurilla group and helping the citizens directly, until they became more extreme and was handled by the government. Later in the late 1980s they reformed as a legal political party. |
