The road to a revolution is never a quick nor easy one, and the outcome is always the same; blood, war, superficial peace, and then a new means to revolt. The means to revolt is also never made in a day, but is the result of a snowball effect of iniquities. Many people seem surprised when a revolution happens, but neglect to realize it is the oppressed who feel revolution is necessary. This is illuminated in the revolution for Latin America because it was a series of chain reactions that lead to it, and, respectfully, it could be considered to have begun with the end of the Second World War.
With the end of the Second World War, Latin America began to lose its stride with industrialization. Unfortunately, however, the population did the opposite, …show more content…
The Europeans were also laboring to reconstruct the factories that were destroyed during their part take in the world. Both of these events caused even more stress on the Latin Americans because in order for them to compete with the rest of the world they needed new machinery and mechanisms. Then to make matters worse the US advocated the ideology of “comparative advantage.” The book Born in Blood and Fire by John Chasteen calls comparative advantage as “a concept promoted by free-marketed liberal economists. If each producer specializes in what it produces with comparative advantage, free trade then theoretically creates maximum benefits for all involved,” (Chasteen, A2). The key word in the definition is theoretically, because in actuality Latin America, Europe, and the US all specialized in industrialization. Unfortunately, for Latin America, industrialization was no longer adequate for their economy anymore, so in competition with the US and Europe, they would have been demolished. One man who detected the flaw with in this plan was Raúl