Social Order In Latin America

(U) Historically, Latin American has been faced with constant turmoil and instability, with very few exceptions. There are many reasons for this. Many of the colonial conquers, and subsequent rulers had ruled with an iron fist, and in doing so had almost decimated the indigenous populations of native Americans throughout Latin America. Social order was laid out by the military conquers and what emerged over the years was a mestizo class of people and the campesino, the peasant farmer or people from the country. All of them were subjugated under their often-repressive rule. As a result of this social discourse in the early 1800’s, there were many revolutions by armed militias in Latin American that expelled the colonial rulers. Ultimately …show more content…
He established the federalist system whereby the trade would be left up to the individual provinces which would be free to run their affairs under a federalized system with Buenos Aires being the center of the commerce system. When the forces of General Justo José de Urquiza defeated him in a civil conflict, he fled to Great Britten to recluse himself in exile. In 1853 a new constitution was drafted and was patterned after the Constitution of the United States. It included the separation of powers, checks, and balances, and the right to own individual property. In 1954 Urquiza was elected president. From 1852 to 1916 Argentina was ruled by a liberal oligarchy that was fraught with corruption, fraud. However, its economic prosperity was enhanced with advances in cattle production and agriculture. In 1910 Buenos Aires was termed as being the Paris of South America from its great influx of European immigrants with its population multiplying tenfold from 90,000 to 1.3 …show more content…
Nicaragua has a similar history but has had external foreign involvement that aided in the establishment of dictators and the political elite. Nicaragua gained its independence from Spain in 1821 and was subsumed into the first Mexican Empire until 1823. In 1823 Nicaragua joined the Federal Republic of Central America until it gained its sovereign independence in 1838. Previous to that time most of Nicaragua’s indigenous population was decimated except the Miskito Indians that later mixed with the African Slaves. In the early 1900s, Britain and the United States competed for the rights of a transisthmian canal. The United States decision to build the canal in Panama had a significant impact on relations with Nicaragua and led to the deployment of U.S. Marines to deter another nation from building a canal that would compete with the United States’ efforts in Panama. The U.S. Marines who had established a relationship with the conservatives and trained their National Guard in the mid-1920s encouraged fair and honest democratic elections. In 1927 the United States offered to supervise the elections. The liberal General Augusto Caesar Sandino rejected the and started a guerrilla war against the Marines and the National Guard. The National Guard assassinated Sandino in 1933, and the Commander Anastasio Somoza Garcia leveraged his position in the National Guard to assume the Presidency in