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Populism has been an important force in Latin American political history, where many charismatic leaders have emerged since the beginning of the 20th century, as the paramountcy of agrarian oligarchies had been dislocated by the onset of industrial capitalism, allowing for the emergence of an industrial bourgeoisie and the activation of an ...
During the early 19th century in Latin America, liberalism clashed with conservative views as liberals wanted to end the dominance of the Catholic Church, class stratification and slavery. [1] These issues for many years strongly affected the way that Latin American society was organized.
The pink tide (Spanish: marea rosa; Portuguese: onda rosa; French: marée rose), or the turn to the left (Spanish: giro a la izquierda; Portuguese: virada à esquerda; French: tournant à gauche), is a political wave and turn towards left-wing governments in Latin America throughout the 21st century.
With political turmoil in Europe during the mid-nineteenth century and widespread poverty, Germans, Spaniards, and Italians immigrated to Latin America in large numbers, welcomed by Latin American governments both as a source of labor as well as a way to increase the size of their white populations.
Roosevelt was a figure who embodied many American values: he was a war hero, an individualist, and a man of the common people. Yet his decision to take action in Latin America contradicts with the ideas enshrined in international law, which became a target for criticism. [citation needed]
Latin American countries (green) in the Americas. Latin America (Spanish: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin)—particularly Spanish and Portuguese, as well as French—are primarily spoken.
Latin America has become a site of global competition. The United States must realign its focus on the region to promote economic prosperity and defeat corruption and organized crime, which will ...
The US and Latin America: Eisenhower, Kennedy and Economic Diplomacy in the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2015). Smith, Joseph. The United States and Latin America: A History of American Diplomacy, 1776–2000 (Routledge, 2005). Smith, Joseph. Illusions of Conflict: Anglo-American Diplomacy Toward Latin America, 1865–1896 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1979).