LACS 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Supreme Court Of Justice Of The Nation, Electoral Fraud, Juan Domingo Brown
27 Feb 2016
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The great depression of the 1930s: economic and political. Wall street crash - oct. 1929 (us) General decline in the volume of trade (4 yrs immediately following crash, declined about. 65%; countries suffered the most directly traded with us: cuba, chile, central america) Commodity prices fell and export volumes declined. Default of the foreign debt (suspended payments) Sharp rise in unemployment (agriculture, steel, meat industry, etc. ) Coup: forceful, quick, illegal overthrow of a government. Usually organized by military officers, or sometimes well organized politicians. Power depends on the success or failure of the coup. Defacto governments: repressive and pro us, authoritarian regimes. Defacto = according to fact; dejure = according to law. 1930: revolution ousted president julio prestes in brazil. 1931: general strike in chile forced president carlos ibanez to resign. 1930/33: supervised elections and military interventions in haiti and nicaragua. Rafael trujillo (dominican republic): 1930-38 / 1943-52 1961. Isi"s goal: replace manufactured (imported) goods with local products.
