Each country had military coups and regimes because of the way the government was being run before getting taken over. Argentina’s regime was an authoritarian – bureaucratic state, Brazil’s military regime was an authoritarian military dictatorship, and the military dictatorship of Chile was an authoritarian government. In Argentina, a military coup d’état overthrew the Argentine government in June 1966, thus, beginning the period of military dictatorship by a junta up until 1973. General Juan Carlos Onganía was established as president by the coup, which led to a series of military – appointed presidents and implementations of neo – liberal economic policies. He was the head of the Argentina Revolution and aimed to establish a new and political
During the early 1960s, Brazil entered a period of unrest caused by the military’s concern over the direction of government policies. The military’s concern rose toward the end of the 1950s due to the president’s perceived connection to communist world leaders. Prior to the Military Coup, the American government demanded that Brazil either move away from leftist policies or be forcefully changed. When Brazil did not comply, the United States, concerned that Brazil would join the communist block in South America, provided money and weapons to help the military overthrow the government. Although the Brazilian Military Coup of 1964 stimulated the Brazilian economy by investing more money into national growth, it was ultimately unsuccessful because
Talking about Politics, we can realize that they have some other things in common. Just like in Brazil, the President of the United States is the head of state and head of government. In addition, both USA and Brazil have a written constitution and their system of government are the same: they’re both democracies.
What once was a relatively free and peaceful place started to feel the wrath of the cruel invaders. After decades of the Spanish rule, the Latin American colonies decided to finally take back what once was theirs. Latin America, under the rule of Spanish forces, faced problems. The revolutions that took place during this time were influenced by the ideas from the Age of Enlightenment.
All three nations would deal with similarities and differences when it came to military forces working within their governments. When Brazil had first gained its independence from Portugal in 1822, Brazil had become a monarchy. The monarchy would only last until 1889, they would then switch over to a republican form of government. After that they would transition into a dictator, followed by several presidents who tried to steer the Brazilian government into a democracy. One president named Juscelino Kubitschek would continue to develop Brazil’s economy; however, his dreams would be very expensive. His successors would try to accomplish his goal for him but it would prove to put the nation into foreign debt and inflation would shoot up. The plan for a land reform did not sit well with many people, they did not support breaking up large estates to give to peasants. The army would then step in taking control of a military coup. For two decades the military would end up controlling Brazil. The generals would focus on economic growth as well as fostering foreign investments. The military would then begin to pour in extensively large investments into the Amazon jungle. The economy would then boom, but the government would cut back on wages and social programs. Henceforth, the standard of living would decline massively. After the government had imposed censorship, the hate of the military government grew quickly. A recession, slow down of the economy took place. After this event, the military generals would decide to step down and allow free
In addition to the American Revolution, the Mexican Revolution was also caused by abuse of power, by a president, known as Porfirio Dίaz. Mexico’s middle class was protesting against Porfirio Dίaz, a president turned dictator that ruled for three and a half decades. “The Mexican Revolution began as a movement against the long-standing dictatorship of Porfirio Dίaz (1876 - 1911).” Dίaz’s rise to the presidency was not necessarily democratic, as he was an army officer that came to power through a military seizure. “Like many of Mexico’s nineteenth-century rulers, Dίaz was an army officer who had come to power by a coup.” Dίaz was successful in forming a stable political system, but it did not conform to the Mexican Constitution. “Unlike his
Revolution started to take over the world. The French Revolution started to happen, and ideas of enlightens started to spread. Latin America’s Spanish King was just removed, and the Creole generals started to lead wars of independence. Now was the time to begin a Revolution. The uneven distribution of resources lead to conflict and Revolution in Latin America by geographic luck, advanced weapons, and unfair social class.
In the United States, Nixon was in power and Nixon told his main advisor, Henry Kissinger that he wanted Allende out of power. Kissinger thought of only one way to get Allende out of power and it was to begin with the uprise of the Chilean military. Kissinger sent a cable to the CIA agents in Chile stating that the agents were to continue with their work on investigating the military coup. However, the twist was that the CIA agents was not necessary in Chile and three years later, the people of Chile are revolting against their leader. Allende nationalized copper and other industries, which froze prices and raised wages to try to stop the inflation but unfortunately, that only raised inflation more. With Allende’s reform in play, the CIA ran propaganda against Allende.
Over a hundred years ago countries from the new world were under the control of big wealthy kingdoms from Europe. Then those countries decided that they didn’t want those kingdoms to rule over them and started revolutions to try and win independence. As a result we have the countries of the South America. Their revolutions were both similar and different.
This also meant that there would be more freedom of government documents; that had several connections between the U.S. One of the main purposes behind the reasoning of the change of government positions was that they did not want them thinking that they were under the control of the United Fruit; the United Fruit Company who was a profitable business had been affected by the downfall of the economy and made a major downfall for their business. The government had such an impact on propaganda and people believed that this would be the reason that the economy was starting to make its downfall. The Coup was also introduced and it was criticized around the world and created an impression that would be remembered as the one that would sought out to have anti U.S. sentiment within Latin America. Soon after this happened, there was many changes going on throughout the country. Castillo Armos was now in power and people were now realizing that he would soon be taking a dictorial approach by banning political parties, torturing and imprisoning political opponents and so much more.
6. The roles of the military in the governments in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico had some similarities and differences. First starting out with Brazil, military dictators had played a major role in their governments fro about twenty years. Brazil was ruled by military dictators. This dictators, put importance on the economy growing, and they promoted some foreign investments. They showed this by beginning large projects that were located in the Amazon jungle. Because of these actions, the economy now did just as they hoped that it would. How every this economic advancements did have a couple negatives. Now, the governments stopped the wages, and they also held back on the social events. This then caused a downgrade in the standards of the normal
The start of the Mexican Revolution came about with the dictatorship of Porfiro Diaz. Porfiro Diaz was the president who came after Benito Juarez, the first indigenous president of Mexico. At Diaz was liked by many of the elite in Mexico due to the fact that they were able to gain wealth. One often forgets about the other side when wealth is being gained on one
Oligarchy controlled the country for their benefit disregard the living situation of less fortunate. The oligarchy would fight anyone to keep their power over society as written in Causes for Civil war and Failed Revolution in El Salvador,“The oligarchy made it clear that they would not give up their status in society, and that they would fight the masses , as well as discredit the military in order to maintain the status quo” ( Kyle 10). They should have work with the poor, then revolution would have benefit everyone and speed up the process of it to being completed by reaching it goals of free political right and agrarian reform and land reform. Thier manipulation of military add to many issues faced by peasants from massive
Evaluate the role of the U.S government in the 1973 Chilean Military Coup d’etat and dictatorship.
During Brazil’s 20 years of military rule, the army had almost complete control and congress had little power. Since 1985 the government has been in the hands of civilians. Brazil is a federal republic under the leadership of a president whose powers are similar to those of the president of the United States. A vice-president and the cabinet consisting of state ministers support the president. The government is divided into
It is impossible to separate the history of military dictatorships in Latin America from the history of economic exploitation and of US intervention in the region. The history of slavery and other forced labor in the pursuit of large-scale agriculture and resource extraction in the time of the colonies has created a legacy of economic exploitation. This poverty and inequality has in many cases led to popular uprisings and calls for reform, which provided the reason (or the excuse, depending on your point of view) to use military force to restore discipline. The United States' willingness to support strong regimes capable of securing its interests in the region also has played a decisive role. These