Latin American Final
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- Perfirio Diaz
- Dictator president in Mexico from 1876-1880 and 1884-1911 Significant because during his presidency he stabilized and modernized Created the pie model for distribution of land and power.
- Francisco Madero
- Came from a rich family in which he inherited a hacienda. He is significant because he helped found the Anti-reelection in which he believed \"by effective suffrage voting should count and no reelection. He became president of Mexico in 1911 after he led uprising by the lower class in rural Mexico.
- Emiliano Zapata
- Was from a little village near mexico city. Concerned about the land gained by the elite and as an elder of the village he wanted to gain back the land. He lost the fight.
- Francisco Villa
- Lived on a hacienda and was known as a great outlaw because he avenged his sister\'s rape by the master of the Hacienda. He is significant because he was concerned about the power of the elite.
- Present day constitution of Mexico that was formed in 1917 during the Mexican revolution. Significant because it was the blue print of the democratic left government.
- Constitution of 1917
- Lazaro Cardenas
- President from 1934-1940 and is significant to Mexican history because he implemented the 1917 constitution.
- Alvaro Obregon
- Became president in 1920 election after he overthrew the former president who was supported by the United States. He is significant to Mexican history because he wrote the constitution of 1917
- Deals with church and education Creates a secular public school system and the church becomes significantly smaller
- Article 3
- Protects the workers rights Compensation, health care, etc Is significant because it is the magna carta of working men.
- Article 123
- Allows government to confiscate land of the elite at any time Gives government the right to confiscate foreign business prosperity such as land and products
- Article 27
- Diego Rivera
- A world famous Mexican painter and active communist. Painted many murals in Mexico which related to the revolution and to politics
- War between barbarism and civilization
- Mexican Revolution of 1910
- Victor Paz Estenssor
- Bolivian economist and statesman who became president of Bolivia from 1960-1964 Significant because he was a co-founder of the National Revolution Movement in 1941 which became the Centrist party.
- A system set-up by the government during the presidency of Estenssor in 1952 in which a semiatonomous enterprise ran the state-owned mines. The government nationalized the three major tin companies. Significant because 2/3 of the mining industry was
- COMIBOL
- Social-democratic politcal part of Venezual. Established in 1941 and played a major roll in the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez. Had four presidents from 1960-1990
- Accion Democratica
- Juan D. Peron
- An italian immigrant descendant who became the populist president of Argentina in 1945
- Eva Duarte de Peron
- Wife of Peron who orginally came from the \"sticks\" Known as a Saint in Argentina for her love and support of the working class Convinced her husband to give female suffrage in 1947
- Descamisados
- Word used to describe the \"working class\"
- Gertulio Vargas
- Brazilian populist president Significant because he had an alliance with the middle and working class and he industrialized Brazil
- a term used to describe policies which are guided by the idea of protecting domestic consumption, labor and capital formation
- Economic nationalism
- a trade and economic policy based on the premise that a country should attempt to substitute products which it imports (mostly finished goods) with locally produced substitutes.
- Import substitution industrialization
- A school of theology within Christianity in which the Roman churches mission is to bring justice to the poor and the oppressed through political activism
- Liberation theology
- Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara
- Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader in Cuba during the Cuban revolution of 1959
- A literacy campaign in Cuba named after Conrado Benitez, a black man who was one of the early volunteer teachers who was murdered.
- Conrado Benitez brigades
- Fidel Castro
- Cuban revolutionary leader who served as the country\'s 22nd president and led the country from January 1959 until his retirement in February 2008. Overthrew Batista and end foreign investment in Cuba Provide national education and health care
- Augusto Cesar Sandino
- Guerilla war against U.S. Marines in the 1980s Significant because he is painted as a patriot
- Daniel Ortega
- Leader of the revolution in Nicaragua. In 1979 the guerilla revolution succeds and Ortega created policies which ended foreign investors, created education, allowed free public health and created land reform
- Archbishop Oscar Romero
- Assassinated by military for speaking against politics Assassinated in 1980 while giving mass Significant because it put the spot light on El Salvador
- Chico Mendez
- Rubber tapper who was one of the first people to speak up against the deforestation of the rain forest Was killed by neighbor ranchers
- process of transferring ownership of business from the public sector (government) to the private sector (business)
- Privitization
- Favors the elite, foreign investors, consumers, and the middle class
- Neo-liberalism
- Xavante
- A group of indeginous people who lived in the rianforest. They were nondientary and there for came into conflict with the non-natives in 1980. FUNAI was the group that created treateis with the Xavante (reservations) Significant because it was one of the deregulations of Brazil
- Luiz Incaio Lula da Silvia
- Elected president of Brazil in 2002 A person from the working class who promised change for the working class but instead continued neo-liberalism ideas