GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Primate City, North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexican Revolution
29 Jul 2020
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Interventions in the region"s politics by outside powers have frequently compromised political freedoms and human rights. In 1823, the us introduced the monroe doctrine to warn europeans that no further colonization would be tolerated in the americas. Subsequent us administrations interpreted this policy more broadly to mean that the us itself had the sole right to intervene in the affairs of the countries of. Middle and south america, and it has been done so many times. After world war ii, worried that communism would infiltrate middle and south. America, the us focused special military scrutiny on a number of countries. With us aid, the elected socialist-oriented government of salvador allende was overthrown. Allende was killed, and a military dictator, general augusto pinochet, was installed in his place. Over the next 17 years, the pinochet regime imprisoned and killed thousands of chileans who protested the loss of their political freedoms. Cuba in the cold war and post-cold war eras.
