Modern Latin America: Struggle for Sovereignty

Section 4 of Latin AmericaPraxis Review

With Frank Argote-Freyre

Spanish-Cuban-American WarUnited States Emerges as

World Power

Wreckage of Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor

“American Mediterranean”

Panama: The Creation of a Nation and a Canal

Lock on the Panama Canal

Revolution:Mexico 1910

Image of Emiliano Zapata“Land and Liberty”

Painting by David Alfaro Siqueiros: The

People in Arms

Evolution of United States Latin America Policy

• Gunboat Diplomacy• Good Neighbor Policy• Cold War Containment• Ignorance is Bliss?

Friendly Dictators

Fulgencio Batista Zaldivar in Cuba

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo – Dominican

Republic

Cold War Interventions:A Sampling

• Guatemala – 1954 [Ouster of Jacobo Árbenz – Covert Action]

• Dominican Republic – 1965 [Preserve Military Government – Military Intervention]

• Chile – 1973 [Ouster of Salvador Allende – Covert Action]

• Nicaragua – 1980s [Iran-Contra Scandal –Covert Action]

Interventions

Augusto Pinochet of Chile Toppled Elected Government of

Salvador Allende

President Reagan Succeeded in Derailing Nicaraguan

Revolution

Revolution:Cuba 1959

Cuban Image Challenging Uncle Sam

Scene of Revolutionary Triumph

Cuban Missile Crisis

October 1962:Flirtation with Nuclear War

Emergence of Brazil:Stepping Away from Colonial Image

Images of Brasília

National Congress Modern Cathedral

United States Policy in the Wake ofSeptember 11

Latin America:Today and Looking Forward

• New Trading Partners• New Signs of Economic and

Political Independence• Towards a More Balanced

Relationship

A Swing to the Left?

Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Fidel Castro of Cuba, and Evo Morales of

Bolivia

Economic Challenges for US

Growing Chinese InfluenceUS dependence on

Foreign Oil – Venezuela and Mexico

Major Suppliers