Latin American Politics

Caudillo

Caudillismo

Mexico

Porfirio Diaz

Porfiriata

Mexican Revolution

Pancho Villa

Emiliano Zapata

Constitution of 1917

Mexico’s political parties: PNR/PRI, PAN, PRD

Mexico’s land reform: ejidos, ejiditarios

US role in 20^th century Latin American politics

Export-led development

Modernization

Import substitution industrialization (ISI)

Social change accompanying political and

economic change

Repressive dictators: Batista/Cuba; Trujillo/Dominican Republic; Duvalier/Haiti;

Somoza/Nicaragua; Stroessner/Paraguay

Revolutions: [Mexican Revolution, 1910-1917]

Bolivia, 1952

Cuba, 1959

Cold War/Alliance for Progress

Rise of the military: Brazil, Argentina, Chile

Democratization

The Lost Decade

Austerity programs

Other challenges: drug economies, insurgencies, maintaining democracies

The Economies of Latin America

Pre-Columbian economies

Colonial economies

1800s-1930s

hacendados

export-oriented

resource based-industrial minerals

copper, lead, nitrates, petroleum

rise of export agriculture: bananas,

coffee, beef, rubber, wheat, wool

immigration

Post WWII

ISI

ECLA economists

Dependent development,

Dependency theorists

1980s, The Lost Decade

debt, austerity programs

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Debt relief, debt restructuring

Neo-liberalism

Indicators of economic development

GNP/per capita

Life expectancy

Structure of Economy/production

Agriculture – subsistence/commercial

Industry

Resource extraction

Commodity dependence

1990s

export oriented industrialization

globalization

regional integration and trade associations

CACM

LAFTA
NAFTA

CARICOM

MERCOSUR/MERCOSUL