9B—History of Latin America
Revolutionaries
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I. Cuba as inspiration

“For the first time we thought that revolution was something possible in our countries. Until then the idea of the revolution was romantic and remote to us, something we took more as an academic idea that could never become a reality in countries like ours.”

Mario Vargas Llosa

II. Guerrilla movements in LA:

Rural movements:
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Regis Debray
--focos
--Bolivia 1967-68
--Central America, 1960s-80s

Urban movements
-- Uruguay : Tupamaros, to 1974
--Argentina: Peronist Armed Forces (1950s-70s) and Montoneros (1970s)

III. Social revolutionaries

Dependency theory

Students, teachers, and professors
-- Mexico 1968:
-student strikes and popular marches of 600,000
-pre-Olympic Games
-Oct. 2, 1968: massacre at Plaza de los Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco

Liberation theology
--Vatican II 1962-65
--Medellin 1968: "institutional" or "structural" violence = sin
--Puebla , 1979: “preferential option for the poor"

Grass-roots movements
--Christian base communities
--Neighborhood committees
--Cooperatives
--Women's movements