Notes on Central and Latin America and the Caribbean

HIS 135
Notes on Central and Latin America and the Caribbean

Well, note how I don't ahve the word "division", or partition, in the title of these notes. That shows you that soimething much different was at work in the Americas, and it wasn't just the long arm of the United States. To be clear, if there was one thing that Amerfican foregin policy players fearerd more than communism any where in the wrold, it was communism in our "backyard," somerhwe in the Americas. That is why Cuba so freaked out everybody.

So wth reagrd to the Ameficas since the end of World War I, I'd like to make some comments on radicalism in the Western hemisphere the area, bith comminist, socialsim, and also liberation theorlogy.
Then, what happened to the Alliance for Progress and the progress of the eocnomc dvelopme of sounctires ouht of the Rio Grande.
In one 135 I have specific modules for
The Cyuban Missile crisis
The El Salvadoran Civil War
Cuban Missile Crisis

Blue Bar

Radicalism in the Western Hemisphere

Link to my HIS 135 course on the Korean WQar,
Now there is a lot from the COld War Hitory project
Cia sponsored coups in Domincan Republic and Chile

http://grym.gnn.tv/blogs/8323/A_Brief_History_of_CIA_Sponsored_Terrorism_1951_2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_sponsored_regime_change

wHAT about lIberation TheorlogyGustavo Gutierrez
a commitment to improving th elot of the poor instead of just saying that it is god's will tha they suffer and maybe rich opeople will give them somethiung

Alliance for Progress

Latin America

            1. also problems of population, poverty, debt, political inequality

            2. military still the power in Argentina and Chile

            3. 1985, Brazil democratic

            4. Venezuela most stable

            5. Colombia drugs

            6. Mexico a federal rep since 1917

            7. Central American unrest
                a. Nicaragua
                b. El Salvador