Blog assignment 2.
Topics. 1. Alliance for Progress 2. Neoliberalism 3. The American Century 4. Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) 5. Populism 6. Liberation Theology
People. 1. Juan Peron 2. Evo Morales 3. Hugo Chavez 4. Augusto Pinochet 5. Ernesto Cardenal 6. Che Guevara
Directions. Briefly research the basic meaning and contents of the 6 topics above. Then do the same for the 6 people. Then find a relationship between one of the topics and one of the people. As a comment in the blog, explain the content of the topic, identify the individual, and describe the relationship you have discovered between the topic and the person.
Here is an example using a different topic and person than those in the list.
Topic – Sandinismo (English—Sandinism) Person – Daniel Ortega
Sandinismo is a social and political movement that arose after the assassination of Augusto Sandino in 1934. Sandino had been a Nicaraguan rebel who fought successfully in the late 1920s and early 1930s against U.S. Marines occupying the country. Invited to peace talks in Februay 1934, Sandino was betrayed and assassinated. The movement that carries his name lingered in Nicaragua for forty years until the start of a revolution in the 1970s that overthrew the U.S. sponsored dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. Danial Ortega was fighter in the Sandinista revolution. He rose through the military ranks of the Sandinista army and upon their successful overthrow of the Somoza government, Ortega became a ruling member of the revolutionary Sandinista government. Since then he has been elected president of Nicaragua three times. The core of Ortega’s official ideology derives from the principles of anti-Americanism developed by Augusto Sandino now called Sandinismo.
