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It was the largest-scale contemporary war that took place in South America, mobilizing nearly half a million men, it is also the first on the continent in which conventional weapons such as tanks, machine guns and tactics such as trench warfare are used. The first air battle fought in Latin American skies took place in this conflict. [14]
The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934. [1]
1557 — 1575 French-Portuguese conflict over France Antarctique, a French colony in Rio de Janeiro. 1591 — Thomas Cavendish, a British corsair, occupied Santos; 1821 — 1825 Brazilian War of Independence; 1835 — Malê Revolt; 1835 — 1845 Republican revolt against the Empire of Brazil is put down in the Ragamuffin War; 1896 — 1897 War ...
The Latin American and Caribbean countries with the most representative democracy were Costa Rica, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Jamaica and least democratic were Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela according to 2024 V-Dem Democracy Report. [3] Map of V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2023
[74] According to Marc Becker, a Latin American history professor of Truman State University, the claim of the presidency by Juan Guaidó "was part of a U.S.-backed maximum-pressure campaign for regime change that empowered an extremist faction of the country's opposition while simultaneously destroying the economy with sanctions."
The United States occupation of Nicaragua from August 4, 1912, to January 2, 1933, was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began on August 4, 1912, even though there were various other assaults by the United States in Nicaragua throughout this period.
Land mines in Latin America and the Caribbean are a by-product of the Cold War-era conflicts starting off in the 19th century.Contrary to the requirements of generally accepted international law, the minefields of Latin America and the Caribbean (including Central America), were usually unmarked and unrecorded on maps.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) created in 2010 is an example of a decade-long push for deeper integration within Latin America without United States and Canada. CELAC was created to deepen Latin American integration and by some to reduce the significant influence of the United States on the politics and economics ...