Modern+Latin+America

Social
 * Enfranchisement of women by 1950s
 * Prejudice continue to burden women despite entering the workforce and politically gaining power
 * Legal and extralegal migrations were characteristic of the period
 * Rural diaspora
 * Inadequate urbanization and rise of inner-city-like conditions
 * Predominance of Catholicism

Political
 * Latin America varied with political options: populism, socialism, communism, democracy, bureaucratic authoritarianism, one party rule
 * Mid century, establishment of many US sponsored **banana republics**
 * Military officers often pulled coups and imposed martial law or hindered the democratic crisis believing that was best
 * Mid-1980s re-democratization
 * Cuban Communism
 * **Liberation theology** mixed Christian doctrines with socialist ones
 * Mexico was controlled by the Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (**PRI)** until 1994
 * The idea of **"dirty war**,**"** killing political opponents
 * The church organized themselves into parties such as the Christian Democratic parties in Chile and Venezuela
 * **Third World** status by the other worlds (First capitalist industrialized, second communist industrialized)
 * Constant US intervention, lessened by the **Good Neighbor Policy** (1937) overshadowed by containment

Economic
 * Mexico joined the NAFTA but failed to solve economic qualms
 * Martial regimes pushed for development that caused many problems
 * Defaults on loans and nationalization of industries
 * International narcotics trade
 * Major investments from US entrepreneurship
 * 1961 **Alliance for Progress**

Key Changes || Basic Features at the End of the Period || Causes and effect ||
 * Theme || Basic features at beginning of period || Key Continuities
 * Political ||  ||   || * Democratic Republics
 * Some authoritarianism || * Good neighbor policy and containment; continued US presence in Latin America, banana republics, and rigging elections
 * Pragmatism and conservatism of leaders like Carter, Reagan and G. H. Bush ||
 * ^  ||^   || * Dictatorships
 * Populism
 * Corporatism ||^  ||^   ||
 * Economic || * Capitalism
 * Large wealth-poor schism
 * Volatile exports (mainstay) that varied with globalism
 * Major foreign entrepreneurship
 * Labor unrest || * Rich-poor schism
 * Capitalism
 * Export dependent
 * Volatile exports
 * Western capital remained influential
 * Industrialization || * Capitalism
 * Capital found from domestic enterprise
 * Some strong export economies
 * Volatile exports
 * Rich-poor schism
 * Drug trade || * Good neighbor policy and containment; continued US presence in Latin America, banana republics, and rigging elections
 * Alliance for Progress
 * Great Depression; nationalization of industries and economic dominance by the US
 * Militarization of regimes; led to defaults in loans in the 70s ||
 * ^  ||^   || * Decrease of western investments
 * Nationalization and de-nationalization of industry
 * Rise of a drug trade ||^  ||^   ||
 * Social ||  ||   ||   ||   ||