Socialist Party of Chile

Americas.” ” “Let the Rail Splitter awake. Let Abe come with his axe and his wooden plate to eat with the farmers (Cohen). “ Neruda is inserting himself as Abe in the poem. He is running away. Pablo Neruda is calling himself the Abraham Lincoln of Chile. He is going through the countryside’s like Abraham. Abraham was trying to help abolish slavery while Pablo Neruda is trying to show how controlling the Chilean government is being and that communism is not the evil they are making it out…

In the book, Weavers of Revolution by Peter Winn is the aspect of the Chile revolution through the eyes of the Yarur workers. The book covers the aspect of how the Yarur workers understood and reacted to the Socialist government lead by Salvador Allende and how the worker's perceived and said into participating in the revolutionary process from 1971 to 1973. The book also covers the important aspects Chilean Revolution that is revealed during the readership. Titles of books reveal the essence of…

relate? The populist movement in Latin America began in the 1930s and 1940s. Although different by case, populism across Latin America had overarching similarities. Populist platforms across Latin America were built on the working class. Populist parties in Latin America supported higher worker wages, job security, welfare, public healthcare, and public education with varying degrees of success depending on the case.…

Even after bribes from the CIA, Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile through his policies of nationalizing important industries such as mining and telephone. In 1973, the shock came when President Allende was overthrown in a military coup led by army general Augusto Pinochet. The CIA entrusted multiple ‘Chicago Boys’…

Murderer or Savior? (Minster).” Augusto made his career out of being an army officer and military dictator in Chile from 1973 to 1990 and his power was obvious through inflation, poverty, and the authoritarianism he had over his opposed leaders (Minster). His early career as an army officer started when he turned 18. He entered military school and graduated as a Sub-Lieutenant. Because Chile was not at war, his rank rose quickly and although he never saw any action in combat during his entire…

This so called movement began in 1998 when Hugo Chavez Frias was elected president of Venezuela. This movement transitioned to the following by Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay. During this time we have seen the opposition movements began to voice their opinions on their discomfort on the oppression of this regimes. There are various levels of oppression that have been studied…

the willingness to sacrifice for a cause. As well as his position of power in Cuba. To many of the present-day rebels active in anticapitalistic movements, Che is not only a radical but, given his opposition to the traditional pro-Moscow Communist parties, he is a revolutionary who shares their own ideals in pursuit of revolutionary and antibureaucratic politics. These things are what makes Che’s ideas and practices…

nism (Pieper) and neoliberal capitalism (Thornton). In an effort to curb the spread the spread of communism in Latin America, the US supported brutal dictatorships that opposed socialist and communist values. The US was afraid of a Latin American communist state emerging so close to US borders (McConnell). Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba is the quintessential example of US’s fears on Latin American communism. After Fulgencio Batista’s pro-American dictatorship was disposed by Castro, Cuba was…

In 1956 the presidential election of Kubitschek and his promise of "fifty years of progress in five" escalated the pace of industrialization in Brazil. The female labor force continued to change as the Brazilian economy evolved. During this time female workers began moving out of agriculture and into "female" occupations in the service and commerce sectors of the economy, such as primary school teachers, office worker, and sales clerk. The recruitment was primarily of young, single, more…

Brazil is the biggest country in South America and also one of the biggest countries in the world. Due to Brazil’s size it boarders all of the countries in South America except for Ecuador and Chile. Brazil has many natural resources available in the country. Outside of the traditional cocoa and coffee, Brazil is also a major exporter of soybeans, oranges and many other warm climate crops. Brazil has some of the world’s largest iron ore deposits and is now considered one of the biggest gold…