Latin America

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Latin America comprises South America, Central America including Mexico, and Caribbean islands such as Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. Hispaniola is divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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Brazil gained independence from Portugal, while most other Latin American states gained independence from Spain. This happened in the early nineteenth century.

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The region faced industrial and agricultural underdevelopment, poverty, illiteracy, unstable political systems, coups, revolutions, and assassinations. Progress was slow and uneven, and many economies…

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The OAS is an international organization founded in 1948 to promote inter-American cooperation and settle disputes among American states.

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Many countries depended on one or a few export commodities such as copper, sugar, tobacco, or tin. When world prices fell, government revenue and economic stability were badly affected.

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Favelas were shanty towns around Latin American cities, especially in Brazil. They grew because people moved to cities faster than jobs, housing, and basic services could be provided.

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The USA used economic aid, loans, political pressure, and military intervention to support governments it considered acceptable and to remove governments it considered 'suspect'. It often acted agains…

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US interventions took place in Guatemala, Cuba, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Nicaragua, Panama, and Haiti.