HIST 2211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Labour Leader, Islamic Democracy, Military Dictatorship
5 Apr 2016
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Most of latin america was ruled by western oriented military dictators from the 1960s to the 1980s. Venezuela and brazil had periods of neoliberal reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Venezuela had a very elite driven democracy thanks to the oil industry: the oil that the country produced was not shared throughout the. 4 country: the elite ruled and the rest of the population was very poor. The oil price drop in the 1980s created political and economic problems for. He was very skeptical of the united states. Neoliberalism is an approach to economics in which control of economic factors is shifted from the public sector to the private sector. Chavez represents an early form of pushback against the neoliberal agenda: he revived an anti-imperialist agenda. He saw himself as carrying on the legacy of fidel castro. Decades of previous military rule in brazil had created a signiicant socialist element to the state.
