Revolutions, dictatorships and the Cold War

Revoluciones y dictaduras: la Guerra Fría en América Latina

1945–1990. After 1945 Latin America became a front in the Cold War.

Draft: not yet checked against its sources.

What happened

After 1945 Latin America became a front in the Cold War. Populist movements such as Perón's in Argentina promised workers a share of national wealth; the Cuban Revolution of 1959 turned a Caribbean island into a socialist state allied to the Soviet Union and brought the world close to nuclear war in 1962. Governments and armies, often with United States support, answered reform and guerrilla movements with repression: the killing of students in Mexico City in 1968, the coup in Chile in 1973, the Argentine dictatorship of 1976–1983 with its tens of thousands of disappeared, and civil wars in Central America. By 1990 most of the region had returned to elected government.

Its events

1. 7 August 1987: Esquipulas II: peace for Central America

Sources

1. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1915-2006) — Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
2. 24M: Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia — argentina.gob.ar