Geography 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Banana Republic, Revolutionary Struggle, United States Marine Corps

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Reform responses to uneven development and attempts to diversify. Central america- the bloodiest recall nicaragua (part 1: 1912-(cid:1007)(cid:1007): us ma(cid:396)i(cid:374)es do(cid:373)i(cid:374)ate ni(cid:272)a(cid:396)agua, classi(cid:272) (cid:858)(cid:271)a(cid:374)a(cid:374)a (cid:396)epu(cid:271)li(cid:272)(cid:859, augusto cesar sandino check slides. The somoza dictatorship (cid:858)(cid:455)ou (cid:374)a(cid:373)e it the(cid:455) o(cid:449)(cid:374) it(cid:859: very powerful + strong us support key things that happened near the end of the last somoza reign us starts to pull back. But grip on power weakens: 1972: earthquake flattens managua approx. Foreign aid poured in after earthquake: somoza pockets international relief. Part of when the west alliances w somozas were going sour. Foreign power holding their noses at the relationship between us and. Somozas: 1978: pedro chamorro assassination (newspaper editor) 1979: bill stewart (us newspaper writer killed on camera) while reporting on the growing social unrest in nicaragua. The sandinistas: promise democratic transition, but 1st (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to i(cid:374)itiate so(cid:373)e (cid:396)efo(cid:396)(cid:373)s , they set about a more peasant oriented distribution of land, different from cuba.

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