History of Latin America
Week 8: Transition to the Cold War
Lecture outline
Readings : **Arevalo, "The Shark and the Sardines"
Latin America had been an exporter of coffee and sugar in the nineteenth century; in the twentieth, many Latin American countires also proudly exported their national arts and culture. The Argentinian tango, Brazilian feijoada, Cuban son--all these became fashionable abroad as well as within the nation in the 1930s and '40s. To the right, a romantic expression of Mexican indigenismo from Diego Rivera.
On Latin American cultural nationalism:
And on the transition to the Cold War:
- Guatemala in 1954: reports on Arbenz's posthumous homecoming in 1995, and a depiction of Arbenz's exile from Time magazine, and some National Security Archive declassified documents from the coup.
- Wikipedia's article on Operation PBSuccess is thorough and accurate, and has a nice picture of Arbenz on the cover of Time to go with the article above! The connection between this and Operation Ajex (1953) in Iran is worth contemplating--especially given the common, anti-imperialist cause of Venezuela and Iran today.
- ECLA (now ECLAC since the Caribbean has join in), founded 1947 and still going....