Latin+America

- Juan Peron ruled in Argentina until 1955 when he was driven from power by a military group. But Peronism remained popular for two decades afterwads. - The Military government involved Argentina in a war with Britain in 1982 which they lost. - In Argentina and elsewhere in South America, by the mid- 1980s, the military had begun to return government to civilian politicians. Elections were held in 1983. **Mexico** - Until 2000, Mexico was controlled by the Party of the Institutionalized Revolution, or **PRI**. But it was proving to be corrupt. - In the 1990s, the government joined in negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in hopes to increase industry. **Guatemala:Reform and U.S. Intervention** - **Juan Jose Arevalo** was elected as president in 1944. - 1951 the presidency was passed to Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, whose nationalist program was more radical. **The Cuban Revolutoin** - **Fulgencio Batista** started a refrom for a democratic constitution of 1940. - Soviet Union was protecting the Cuban revolution. - One of the last communist governments in the world. || **Guatemala:Reform and U.S. Intervention** - Arbenz annouced that he would improve the transportation system and the hydroelectric system. **The Cuban Revolution** - Under Castro, farms were collectivized and a centralized socialist economy was put into place. - Attempted to industrialized the economy in the 1960s failed, so it turned to sugar production. || **Mexico** - A heavily Indian southern state of Chiapas participated in a guerrilla war. They called themselves **Zapatistas** in honor of the peasant leader, Emiliano Zapata. **Guatemala:Reform and U.S. Intervention** - Arevalo began a series of programs that included land reforms and improvement of working conditions. - Direct conflicts with Guatemala, especially the **United** **Fruit Company**. - low standards of living. **The Cuban Revolution** - Cuba had a large middle class and its literacy and health care levels were better than in most of the rest of the region. - **Fidel Castro** and **Ernesto "Che" Guevara** gathered a strong militant force and landed in Cuba in 1956. - Due to the revolution, education, health, and housing improved greatly. **Women** - After WWI, women in Latin America were inferior to their male counterparts in the workplace and in politi﻿cs. - Women were deined the right to vote in 1929 in Ecuador. Though most regions that example was not followed until the 1940s and 1950s. - Women formed organizations to push for votes. - In 1945, 15 bills of suffrage were sent to the senate in Argentina. - By 1911, almost 80 percent of the textle and clothing workers were women. ||
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 * **Argentina**