Hst 565 Twentieth Century Latin America

Course examines: Positivism, Mexican Revolution, World War I, import substitution, comparison of Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Peru in the 1920s, the Depression in Latin America, Nazi threats, U.S. Latin American cooperation WWII, the Cold War, Cuba as watershed, Alliance for Progress, Liberation theology, Soviet, Cuban, Chinese, Trotzkyite rivalries, Dirty wars, Central American revolutions, implosion of Mexican development model, democracy, rise of digital worlds, stimulants, tourism, Nafta, U.S. disregard.