HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Juan Vicente Gómez, Technocracy, Isaías Medina Angarita
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Castro: 86% approval rating, resists elections, wage cuts (50%), land reforms. Bay of pigs (1961) -> pcc (communist party of cuba) 13-day confrontation october 1962 response to failed bay of pigs secret meeting between krushchev and castro in july. U. s. "s role in cuba- promised to never invade again. Economic phenomena- dominating industry adversely effects all other industries such as the agriculture industry. Slow industrial growth- people with money buy foreign goods and not local ones. Dutch disease is in latin america, middle east, and africa. 15 april 1914, mene grande oilfield foreign oil companies. Wwi- 1918- 21,194 metric tons of oil. Exports of oil 1. 9% -> 91. 2% from 1920 to 1935. By the end of the 1930s, venezuela had become the third-leading oil producer and exporter in the world. Concessions to foreign oil: shell, gulf, standard oil of indiana. Generation of 1928- college student protest, some of aristocracy. Eleazar lopez contraras (1936-1941) and general isaias medina angarita (1941-1945)
