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: