Latin America 1880 - 1980

- Great Depression and its solutions

- Transitions and external influences
- Debt Crisis and its consequences
Objectives

Objectives:
 Complete knowledge on the cause and importance

of changes and continuity in the topics

 Inspire interest on Latin America

Note: You will know more than what the module need
you to know. Some will be outside of the module
context, but are necessary to make sense about the
module content
Topics Covered
 Pre-Depression Latin American Economy and
Politics
 Great Depression
 Solutions to Great Depression: ISI, BA, Populism
and Chicago Boys
 Debt Crisis 1980
 US Foreign Policy in Latin America, School of
Americas, US-Cuba, Human Right in Latin America
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In essence, everything from Section 1 and 2 of Latin
American Politics
Approach
 All the topics will be split into 5 groups:
1) Depression and its solutions: Pre-Depression, Depression, ISI
and Populism
2) Economic Transition: Export-Import to ISI to Chicago Boys
3) Political Transition: Cooperative to Social Democracy to
Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism (BA)
4) External Influence: US Foreign Policy, School of Americas, US-
Cuba
5) Debt Crisis and its economic consequences: Post-Chicago
Boys (CIEPLAN etc)

 Note: The political consequence of the Debt Crisis is the 3rd wave
democratisation, which is the start of Section 3.
Approach (cont.)
 1) Background brief: In powerpoint format
or word version, will be at the blog. It gives all
the information for the tutorial to make sense
at all.

 2) Tutorial: Putting all the background

information into coherent whole, explore
articles’ argument, exam practice on and
discussion question, and answer any related
questions