Latin American Social Movement Analysis

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In this paper, I will discuss the Latin Americans social movement and trends from 1960’s to 1980’s. I will also discuss how President John F. Kennedy and the next President actions were able to influence the different movement. Furthermore, I will discuss how did the Latin Americans countries were able to benefit or not, due to the recession and economy growth of their countries.

Even before President John F. Kennedy became president, the relationship between Latin American Countries and the U.S was increasingly deteriorating. However, JFK was determined to improve the relationship between the U.S and the Latin American Countries. In 1961, President JFK decided to launch what he call "Alliance Progress", in which the U.S would help Latin
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2009)”. Also, during the 60’s the U.S and Latin countries had already dealing with the issues of drug sales, trafficking and manufactured and many Latin American countries traffickers were able to see the high need to supplied illegal drugs, especially cocaine, and marijuana and how it was such an easy profit. As a consequence, many drug traffickers had the need to control and produce this illegal drugs. “Which it led to the rapid growth of extreme powerful gangs throughout the Latin American countries, and as it continues to sprout enormously throughout the U.S and Mexico (Arana, A. 2015)”. The war on drugs it was a problem during the 60's and even in today modern culture, the U.S and other countries around the world have not been able to gain much control over this issue. “Latin American immigration started in 1960, during that time the U.S had less that 6 million Latin American which it was equal to 3.24% of the U.S population at that time. Currently in the U.S we have over 50 million of Latin Americans living here, which is equal to 16% of the current population. Immigration does play a significant role towards the political and social-economic aspect of both Latin America and U.S (Gutierrez,