HIST 8B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mothers Of The Plaza De Mayo, Carlos Menem, Leopoldo Galtieri
Document Summary
Condition in international politics, fueling the rise of these men dependent economies problem of development: industrializing, creating your own local bourgeois capitalist class classes that are involved, who owns wealth, where is it flowing, whose interests are being. The patterns, why is that in the 2nd half of the 20th cent latin america falls into military, fascisitc gov"s affected gov power. Argentina entrenchment of elites with anti-communistic ideology to stave off reforms and consolidate elites" capitalism does not work in latin america. 1% creates urban class with political and economic demands the modernization of latin america and all its contradictions, devolutions to authoritarian. Runaway inflation, wages fall, manufacturing industry collapses, export economy grows. Appearance of urban guerillas inspired by castro increase of military gov. Galtieri tries to garner popular support by invading the falklands. Argentina sends 10,000 soldiers into falklands results in battle with britain. Gov resigns, plans to restore democratic gov.
