American History: Reform and Revolution in Latin America

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American History
Question 1
Perfect examples of reform countries included Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and costa. (328). On
the other hand, example of countries that underwent revolution include but not limited to
America. The building of reformist movement facilitated quick action that generally avoided
civil war, bloodshed and coup detat (328). Revolutions are of the idea that the government
system must be changed from within. Also, the government earn struggle through violence and
bloodshed. Reform movements have experiences of defeat and setbacks, and it would often use a
lot of effort to bring about consolidation and change. In a greater way, successful reform
movement would be regarded as a revolution in very slow motion.
Question 2
One of the similarities is that Uruguay followed the general pattern of Latin America. Compared
to other countries in Eakin, they had similar cattle and sheep ranching activities as some of the
greater agri exporters in the regions. Another similarity is that Uruguay and those other countries
are grouped as ethnically European counties (329). The other similarity is that the countries had
liberals and Colorado’s emergence; and these liberals expanded and promoted the export
economy. Also, like those other countries, Uruguay had high level of immigrants coming into the

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country and hence high birthrate, increased population within a very small period. However,
unlike those other countries, despise the dominance of the Colorados, Blancos were ever
characterized with the critical participants in the governance process and making of decisions.
Also, unlike in those other countries in Eakin, Uruguay’s political process was never about
winner-take-all, and zero-sum game (329).
Question 3
One unique aspect of the Uruguayan political system and process is that as they built durable
social peace, they similarly extended the vote to all male adults and the females who had attained
the vote by 1932. Also, they specialized in western European-style social welfare state. The
government of Uruguay would control all the utilities, banks, insurance companies and some of
the meat packing companies. Also, the political power was under the control of the Blanco and a
great share of political power while accepting the dominance in political arena (330).
Question 4
Because of world war II, Uruguay in the 1930s chose to move towards economic protectionism
to promote local industry. The nation experienced a rapidly growing industrialization but greatly
promoted provision of consumer goods for its very small internal market. At that time, the
Uruguayan industry was not competitive to the level of international standards (331).
Question 5
It is a group of individuals that had been virtually eliminated and more than 5000 individuals had
been imprisoned. This happened by mid 1970s. These are groups of individuals that appeared to
be a threat to the regime (332).