The Invisible Revolution in the Third World

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Recommended: Spanish colonizations impact on Latin America

We all know that the Spain ruled pretty much whole Latin America for decades. Peru was one of the countries which became the principal source of Spanish wealth and power in South America. The Spanish captured the Incan capital at Cuzco by 1533 and they fully establish their control in Peru by 1542. Francisco Pizarro became the viceroyalty and important figure in the Peruvian history because he was one of the most distinguished and aristocratic colonial capitals and the chief Spanish stronghold in the Americas (along with Mexico City). Since then, Pizarro maintains his rule over Peru until Jose de San Martin of Argentina and Simon Bolivar of Venezuela led Peru's independence struggle. By 1879, San Martin proclaimed Peruvian independence fully and finally, which made Peru people liberated from Spaniards forever. After the independence Peru likely to get in to foreign issues with Chile and then Ecuador because of their border agreement issues but Second World War made Peru undergone most far-reaching change in its history as a republic. This change wasn’t an isolated nor a planned event but a succession of millions of incidents which have gradually transformed a seemingly immutable order. This change occur during the time period of dictatorship because in the Peruvian history, military rule was overwhelmed by dictators from 1968 to 1980, whom control the whole government and economy which made Peru get in to the great depression combined with the natural disasters to decrease production, depress wages, exacerbate unemployment, increase corruption, failure of mercantilism, and spur inflation, this made Peru to become a corrupted state, which lead to a revolution in Peru.
During 1960’s era, cyclical bankruptcies were taking pl...

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...specially by causing corruption, violence, and other issues which leads to revolution. Although, it never affects the black corrupted sheep’s that are working in the government but it will definitely hurt the citizens, especially the poor and the middle class.

Works Cited

Llosa, Mario Vargas. A Fish in the Water: A Memoir. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. Print.
Soto, Hernando De. The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Print.
"Peru: History." GlobalEDGE: Your Source for Global Business Knowledge. Michigan State University, n.d. Web. 25 Apr. 2014. http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/peru/history
"Internal Conflict in Peru." Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. Princeton Education, n.d. Web. Mar.-Apr. 2014.
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/T%C3%BApac_Amaru_Revolutionary_Movement.html

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