Indigenismo:
Indigenismo was a political and cultural emphasis on indigenous roots and assimilating the indigenous population into the mainstream country, which united the indigenous people. Indigenismo was especially important during the Mexican Revolution as it served as a type of revolutionary nationalism and it was even promoted by the Mexican Revolutionary government. Ultimately, indigenismo helped unite the indigenous people to participate in the Mexican Revolution, which shaped Mexico with the Constitution of 1917 and new leadership, all of which might not have been possible without the united indigenous population achieved by indigenismo.
Operation Condor:
Operation Condor was a transnational military government alliance in the 1970s and 80s between Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil and was supported by the U.S. The operation was based in Paraguay and led by the dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who implemented the operation, which coordinated the arrest, detention, disappearance, and torture of those suspected to be enemies of the state (a really broad group- students or workers, it…show more content… President Nixon claims that the U.S. should not intervene in Latin America, as it would violate the image that the U.S. had been projecting. In theory, the U.S. supported non-intervention in foreign countries out of a respect for free elections and self-determination. However, although officially this may have been the position of the U.S. government, unofficially the U.S. had an entirely different agenda. The U.S. frequently saw it fit to intervene in Latin American countries to protect political interests, like in the case of Allende in Chile, as well as for economic reasons, as evident by the position of the Dulles brothers of the United Fruit Company and the U.S. intervention in Guatemala, and these interventions were known and bemoaned by the Latin American people, as evident in Oscar Romero’s
