HIS330H5 Study Guide - Social Inequality, Platt Amendment, Meyer Lansky
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The issues causing revolution in l. america were a combination of social, economic inequality, political participation being close off and the united states foreign policy towards latin america that was for their own interest. The essay will focus on specific examples in el salvador, The revolution began with the social & economic inequality. The economy was based on coffee production and the demand for their products abroad. The traditional land was taken from the peasants and indians because it was the best land for making coffee, this turned the indians into productive citizens, into workers. Large social inequality were due to this as there is no middle class, 95% of the population were mestizos or indian but they were all poor. The country was run by 14 families where a group of oligarchs controlled 77% of the wealth but only . 85% of the population.
