Political and economic change in Latin America

1. Latin America: physical setting

2. Argentina

   a. Peron

   b. The Mothers of the Plaza De Maya

3. Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution—causes and impact

4. Nicaragua and the Sandinistas

5. Guatemala and the indigenous peoples

6. Changing role of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America

7. Latin American immigration to the United States

8. Return of the Panama Canal

• What is the future of a post-Cold War Cuba?

Suggested Documents: Political and economic maps of Latin America, speeches and memoirs of Fidel Castro, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Jose Napoleon Duarta, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro; Camilo Torres, Communism and Revolution in Latin America

20th Century Latin America

• Latin American Studies Perhaps the main guide on the web.

United States Interference

• Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965  A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy.

• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Lowering Hemisphere, The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1970, On US policy in Latin America.

Pan-American Efforts

• Operation Pan-America, 1958  An Aide Mémoire sent Brazil to other American States, August 9, 1958

• President John F. Kennedy: On the Alliance for Progress, 1961  

• Alberto Lleras: Report on the Alliance for Progress, 1963  

Economic Progress

• Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American Economies, 1965

Liberation Theology

• Phillip Berryman: Church and Revolution, NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April, 1997

• A Concise History of Liberation Theology

Argentina

• Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism, 1948/1950 

• Eva Duarte de Perón: Speech, 1950, in Spanish 

• Eva Duarte de Perón: History of Perónism, excerpts, 1951

Peru

• Pinochet

Nicaragua

• Sandinista - Wikipedia

• Contra - Wikipedia
  

Mexico

• North American Free Trade Agreement