History of Latin America

• Chapter 20: Deconstructing the state: Dictators and neoliberal markets.
  1. Discuss how various foreigners and different Latin American social classes or interest groups, such as large landowners; industrialists;  middle-class sectors; women; workers; peasants; Afro-Latinos; and indigenous peoples were affected by neoliberal policies. *

• Chapter 21: Transcending neoliberalism: Electoral enganos and popular resistance to the dictatorship of markets.
  1.     2.   What was the “Pink Tide“, and how did it reflect the reactions of popular social movements to these
     electoral “enganos” and the neoliberal policies that they made possible?
     Chapter 22: The two Americas: United States –  Latin American Relations.

• 1. What were the origins of the “Good Neighbor Policy“, and how was it applied to Latin America ? *
  2. How consistent was FDR in the application of “his” Good Neighbor policy? *
  3. Discuss what were the permanent long-term U.S. Objectives in Latin America, and how successive U.S. governments sought to achieve them before 1898; between 1898-1933; after WWII; during the Cold War; and since 1981? *
  4. Discuss the rhetoric and the reality of Woodrow Wilson’s Latin American policy *…… How did U.S. policy affect the development of Latin America ?
  5. Describe the mix of reforms and repression in President Kennedy’s Latin American policy. *

Reference book: History of Latin America, Volume 2