HIS344Y1 Lecture : Jan 25
Document Summary
The cuban missile crisis underscored the region for america. When america experts looked over latin america, they found conditions suitable to similar. Latin america could go the cuban way j conditions were really bad and did not need soviet intervention for it to happen. Latin america expected reward, very specifically the same type of reward europe received, but did not happen. j latin america would need to come up with another 20 billion for it to work. The minute standard of living improved, jobs for ordinary people offered, etc. J no need for them to see a social transformation/social takeover. Kennedy also hoped that by offering all these aid, latin america would stay in the american sphere of influence. Even though europe was destroyed in wwii, they had the basis for it, but latain america did not have this. No viable middle class to push for reforms or economic development and no elites.
