Born in blood and fire by John Charles Chasteen

Author:John Charles Chasteen
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Latin America -- History
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2005-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

respect for art, especially literature, conferred on men like Dario and Machado de Assis a status then unequaled by any person of color in the United States. Dark) became one of the most influential poets ever to write in the Spanish language. For the first time ever, people throughout the Spanish-speaking world, including Spain, recognized a Spanish American poet as the great master whose vision and style defined the highest artistic expression of their civilization.

These writers were exceptional men whose stories are not typical. Still, as part of a slow, steady process happening all across Latin America, talented mestizos were joining the middle classes of Latin American countries, finding more opportunities and meeting less prejudice than did socially ascendant black people in the United States. By the turn of the century, the Mexican middle class had become notably mestizo, and many other countries were not far behind.

Only in the mid-icjoos would most countries of the region become predominantly urban. Until 1930, the balance of population and power rested in the countryside, where landowners controlled not only the national wealth but also the electoral system. This phenomenon—by which a landowner in Chile or Brazil or practically anywhere in Latin America took his clients to the polls on election day to 'Vote them"—was the backbone of every strong government in the region. Such "managed elections" were essential to the political system of neocolonialism. On th is_point ? the ruling liberals truly did not deserve their name.

Authoritarian Rule: ' Oligarchies and Dictatorships

A funny thing happened to the liberals of Latin America during their big comeback of the 1860s and 1870s. Once in control, they forgot about the political freedoms they had demanded

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