Brief Political History of Latin America

This video explores the basics of Latin American history and politics to explain why the continent still faces vast inequality that lingers from colonial times, how it develops and the problems it is currently dealing with. It begins with Spanish and Portuguese colonization, explores independence and goes all the way through democratization in the 1980s, the pink wave in the 2010s, to the present.

[@michealcoomes8301]

As a gringo living in Latinamerica, and someone enthralled with the history of the Americas, this was an excellent synopsis of the politics of our continent(s). Thank you for putting this together.

[@jheboii12051986]

what's the meaning of Gringo??

[@DartTyler]

@@jheboii12051986 English-speaking foreginer living in spanish-speaking country.

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Que bueno...Poindexter...estoy un gringo tambien pero no payaso Como tu...😂😂😂a te caaaaarnal

[@DBoone123]

This guy can draw extremely quickly and precisely. Congrats

[@BadBame962]

It’s a digital program to give the illusion of drawing it

[@dopeprincess420]

LMFAOO

[@carmengonzalezhuguet2498]

Thank you, very much, for your deep and accurate work. I am a college teacher from El Salvador and I think your exposition would be very useful for my students, although they are Spanish speakers. Regards from Antiguo Cuscatlán.

Muchas gracias. En algún momento no muy lejano haré la versión en español.

[@carmengonzalezhuguet2498]

Avíseme. La esperaré con mucho interés. Muchas gracias.@

[@NothingsR33L]

This was amazing thank you!

[@homebody914]

Terrific, thanks for the effort you put into this overview. I going to have to watch it several times to absorb half the invaluable information you provided.

[@woomyngyes8528]

Thank you for this video, I am trying to learn more about the history of my culture as I was taken to the US as a young child but am Peru-born :)

[@axelodaar4242]

Eres peruano? As aprendido el ingles alla? Y tambien te sabes el español? 🤔 jsjjsj

[@woomyngyes8528]

@@axelodaar4242 Si, pero mi pronunciación es mejor que mi articulación 😔

[@nonameguy2092]

El profe sapeee.. muchas gracias por el excelente video profe.

[@renatojgames]

Português Espanhol el maestro simplemente se olvida de hablar de la guerra en paraguay 1864-1870 la guerra de cisplatino 1828-1831, golpe de estado de la republica en brasil. 1889,

[@eduserralta]

That was an excellent video. Saludos!

[@joepeach997]

I had to relearn everything about Latin America. Excellent teachers like you is making that possible and understood. Thank You!

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad this was useful.

[@mikeike83]

Happy to have watched this and be your thousandth subscriber :)

thank you Michael.

[@renatojgames]

@ Português Espanhol solo te olvidas de hablar de la guerra en paraguay 1864-1870 guerra de cisplatino 1828-1831, golpe de estado de la republica en brasil. 1889,

[@Supergforce777]

Good info, I feel like you need to segment it up more to help my brain retain the information dump. For example, you skip forward 300 years to Napoleon. Have a pause and a title card so my brain can recognize the time skip properly.

[@Oven_Baked_Pancakes]

Hey El Prof, I’ve really enjoyed your series on Latin American history. Have you ever considered diving deep into specific and interesting moments. An example might be events leading to the war between UK and Argentina, moments leading to the Cuban Revolution or why Fútbol is so popular in Latin America. Keep up the great work and Best wishes!

Hi Allan. I really appreciate your comment. I was making the videos that I could use for my classes. But as I have more time I will definitely take your suggestion. There's one on race in the queue and translations, but I will definitely get to interesting moments and biographies. Eventually.

[@Oven_Baked_Pancakes]

@ Amazing thank you so much. I rarely find channels that talk about Latin American history in such detail! Best wishes!

[@JOSERAMOS-cz2zf]

Hey professors, I’m actually from the region of Central America and studied in El Salvador post war era as a kid. More of the rural east in the hills near Honduras. These lessons on history of the region and plunging questions are much appreciated. Tying history together, to make a better understanding for the future of the region is imperative now more than ever. “Education is justice for all.” At least that’s what my favorite shirt reads.

[@renatojgames]

@ Português Espanhol solo te olvidas de hablar de la guerra en paraguay 1864-1870 guerra de cisplatino 1828-1831, golpe de estado de la republica en brasil. 1889,

[@renatojgames]

@@JOSERAMOS-cz2zf Português Espanhol solo te olvidas de hablar de la guerra en paraguay 1864-1870 guerra de cisplatino 1828-1831, golpe de estado de la republica en brasil. 1889,

[@Chrisandrson]

Thank you so much for this, very useful for my ap human exam

[@andrewworley4401]

Thank you.

[@Tsudkyk]

I’d be interested in a video dedicated to the history of Spanish conquistadors.

[@carmengonzalezhuguet2498]

Is there an email address to write to you? I would like to make you a couple of brief observations that maybe could be useful.

[@michaeldelisieux]

Why the Quebec Region ( Province) of Canada is not included? Aren't the predominantly French descendants Latinos as well?

Just like every region in the world (Europe, the Middle East, South Asia etc.) Latin America’s borders are somewhat arbitrary. But Quebec is never included as part of Latin America, although Haiti is. Why? I don’t think there’s a very clear answer.

[@michaeldelisieux]

@Cronica Panamericana Neitheir you nor me know WHY, but it's WRONG! ( And we know it!) Cheers!

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

@Crónica Panamericana you are clearly educated in the history of the region so your confusion kinda baffles me here. Haiti: is in the caribbean is on the island of Hispaniola was under Spanish rule for 132 years is surrounded by Spanish speaking neighbors Quebec: the other is over a thousand miles away from the nearest Spanish speaking nation. never under Spanish rule. there is also the fact that many people lump the caribbean and Latin America into the same category because there is so much historical overlap and a shared history of being on the tough side of colonization, colonialism and imperialism. while Canada was a partner to the US in its dominance over the western hemisphere post ww2 and exists as a continuance of a white settler colonial project (first nations people people exist, but you know what I'm getting at)

@@chenzomutumbo9140 Quebec being close to Spanish speaking regions is not really what makes a place Latin America or not. Belize is surrounded by Spanish speaking countries and is usually not included in the idea of Latin America. being part of a white settler project is also not a reason to exclude a place from Latin America. Argentina and Chile are very clearly white settler projects. They even had their own versions of indigenous genocide. The closest answer is that culture, geography AND history all play into it, but it's still somewhat arbitrary, just like most regions that capture any kind of cultural dynamic are.

[@chenzomutumbo9140]

@Crónica Panamericana Argentina and chile were not partners in US hegemony the same way Canada was and both required coups to put fascist puppets in place, while Canada was riding shotgun with the US and the Monroe doctrine to maintain hegemony over the western hemisphere..... also Chile and Argentina both had won their independence FROM colonial powers while the US and Canada are THE CONTINUATIONS of the white settler colonialism, and imperialism.... please tell my when the CIA toppled the Canadain government into opening up their resources to US companies, again Canada was a partner. and Belize is included in Latin America despite being an English colony, when you look at any regional list that compares countries of the region, Belize is always included. Belize is further a member the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) also, I'm not saying they need to check all of the lat-am boxes I laid out... I'm saying that Haiti has much more historical overlap and that Quebec checks NONE of the boxes. I do agree with your last paragraph with all factors playing a role ...although I do think that you're stretching the degree to which it is arbitrary by quite a bit.

[@khubza8999]

What "democracy model" are these countries following?

[@rolandowagner7775]

Democratic socialism unfortunately. That's why they keep having dictators and other despots as leaders. They might want to try constitutional republics based on limited/ laissez faire gov't and property rights.

[@taddersauce3672]

@@rolandowagner7775 well wasn’t all the socialism and communism reactions to the imperialism from above. Banana republics and such. The right leaders were replaced by the left and so on and so forth.

[@rolandowagner7775]

@@taddersauce3672 Colonialism was generally started by monarchies, so I wouldn't call that "the right". Excessive gov't or gov't by the few is a feature of the Left, not the Right. Anyways, if you analyze the books of Carroll Quigley and Anthony Sutton, you will see that the imperial elites of the Anglo-sphere (late 1800s) were the ones that funded all of the main communist/socialist revolutions to come and then installed all of the international institutions (UN, CFR, WTO, etc) as globalist steering committees to "guide" the tyrannical leaders, while the resources of those countries of course are extracted by chosen companies. Many of these tyrants are now completely controlled by globalist overseers, just as the initial RoundTables intended. So, all these communist/banana republic tyrants are actually perpetuating Imperialism as their middlemen, believe it or not. But crony/monopolistic capitalism is also a form of globalist socialism (essentially, what the USA has now installed).

[@taddersauce3672]

@@rolandowagner7775 Man I need to dive more into this, it’s quite fascinating. I guess I’ve got a left bias and that might’ve clouded my logic. Thanks for writing all of this.

[@MeGaLilCe5ar]

The not paying taxes for everything model my g 🤔

[@sync5263]

at the end you said el salvador hold me back nayib is makeing that country the best in the region tbh i think your one of the fmln guys

[@renatojgames]

@NVKE Jaysunyou just forget to talk about the war in paraguay 1864-1870 war of cisplatin 1828-1831, coup of the republic in brazil. 1889,

[@reolelva7313]

Bravo

[@renatojgames]

Português Espanhol solo te olvidas de hablar de la guerra en paraguay 1864-1870 guerra de cisplatino 1828-1831, golpe de estado de la republica en brasil. 1889,

[@carlabraham5582]

In 1816, with Haitian soldiers and vital material support, Bolívar landed in Venezuela and fulfilled his promise to Pétion to free Spanish America's slaves on 2 June 1816.[8]: 186

[@carlabraham5582]

It's wouldn't be Latin America because haiti

[@BobanOrlovic]

"If south america was politically united they would be as rich as the united states!" yea, right...

[@nomadicconquistador7-5-39]

The education is spot on but only question to you is why as Hispanics keep using the term Latino/s. Latinos "we are not" unless your Greek, Italian, Romanian and such which spoke a dead language known and spoken by few in the world. This terminology continues to devide and confuse people in the present. We were conquered by the Spaniards and the Portuguese. The majority speak spanish and or Portuguese not latin. We are Hispanics of Spanish/Indian decent and or Portuguese/Indian. To make another commentary adjustment, The Aztecs were only known by that name during the spanish conquest the word Aztec is simply a word removed from the Nahualt language by the spanish to describe the indigenous people of Mexico the spanish word for Aztec is Guerrero and in English is worrior nothing more. Mexico got it name from the Indians that settled in Mexico city. The mejica were nomadic people originally from mexcaltitlan de uribe Nayarit Mexico whom left in search of the eagle eating a serpant. After 300 years of traveling as North as Canada the returned to Mexico only to find the eagle eating the serpant only this time on a cactus. The tribute of knowledge left of this history is found in Nayarit Mexico where the state flag holds evidence with tribute to the people. No other city town or state bears the privilege of the eagle with the serpant only without the cactus. No other municipality in Mexico has the name of origin other than the country as a whole. We as Hispanics should embrace each other not devide because of separation of country. In the end we are Spanish and Indian or Portuguese and Indian. I'm proud of both sides of my roots. I'm 24% Indian, 56% Spanish, and 10% Portuguese. Remember everyone history is not always as it is written. Stay educated love each other and progress in enhancing yourselves.

[@nitobullon1798]

I agree that we shouldn't use "Latino" as our identity. But nor should it be "Hispanic." This is the Spanish definition of the word: Hispanic refers to a group of people who relate to each other through the culture and traditions of Spanish origin. This definition goes well beyond the "just speaking Spanish." Someone who says that they are Hispanic implies that their country's culture and traditions are mainly of Spanish origin, and it might seem true at first glance. But the fact is that the only thing that we share with Spain is a common language. Each country has its own distinctive customs regarding culture and traditions. For example, in Central America, we celebrate Dia de Los Muertos, making a considerable part of our identity. If someone from Guatemala celebrates it and then calls himself "Hispanic," he assumes that the Dia de Los Muertos is of Spanish origin. Most central and South American cuisine has a Native American basis. Other countries, like Argentina, are overwhelmingly influenced by traditions from Italy and Germany, which is reflected in their cuisine. Let's not forget that in 300 years of Spanish rule over America, there were only 300 000 Spanish settlers for regions that, even after war and diseases, had a population in the millions of inhabitants. It was proven by genetic research that Mesoamerica and the Andes have a majority of Native American heritage. In Peru, for example, your average José is at least 2/3 indigenous. There is also a more significant component of African genetic than Spanish, which shouldn't be surprising knowing that at least 1 506 000 slaves were brought to the empire. The same can be said for the Italian and German heritage that once again, genetic studies show that 2/3 of Argentinians, for example, are manly or fully of Italian origin. The overwhelming majority of us have a Spanish name because when the Spanish converted Indians to Catholicism, they also gave us new Christian names. The other way natives were given Spanish names was through slavery, in which the name of the owner was given to the enslaved. The same was done to the African slaves. And as I said, there were only 300 000 Spanish settlers. There are very few people that can confidently claim to be a perfect Indian/Spanish mestizo. It is not to say that Spain has 0 influence over us. But it's undoubtedly just a component of the many others that make the greater American (South of Rio Grande) culture. Our culture is a mix of Native, African, European and Asian cultures. Degrees vary from country to country. In Peru, for example, the Asian component is more vital than the European one. In Uruguay, the Native culture is almost absent. That is why it is incorrect to say that we are "Hispanic."

[@nomadicconquistador7-5-39]

@@nitobullon1798 regardless of the culture difference that you are describing 500 years since the conquest does change the bloodlines only the beliefs. Pride and ego always comes before the fall. That has always been man's downfall. Traditions are created as well as culture difference but when it comes down it regardlesss of people of America's distain to the Spanish DNA doesn't lie. And the origins reflect my previous comment. Thank you for your reply it a telling sign that you took the time to read and I appreciate that. More research is needed from what I gather.

[@Jake-cy7to]

As a person that lives in Latin America, this video is kinda biased towards the left

How so?

[@steelmyr1485]

awnser

[@Jake-cy7to]

@ Well, when you talk about how the US intervened in latin america and you say "unfortunately attempts to fight inequality or provide social goods immediatly became suspect". This is simply wrong, usually what happened was you had literal communists, and i don't mean communists like a left leaning social democrat, i mean literal communists rising up in countries with anti democratic ideas and revolutionary ideas purely for power as lots of latin america countries at the time were doing better than they are today. Either way, the US fucked up in basically making each one of those countries a dictatorship. But it wasn't because people were trying to provide social goods, they were literally carrying out terrorist attacks, kidnapping politicians, and burning places before the US intervened.

[@Jake-cy7to]

@ Also the frente amplio in Uruguay, Kirschners in argentina and Lula in Brasil i understand you say they are moderate in comparison to people like Chavez, and i agree. But they are still real leftists with many people from the frente amplio being former Tupamaros (the communist terrorist organization i was talking in my other comment), and those people literally came to power, so yeah they weren't very moderate altho i do agree it's moderate in comparison to chavez for sure. Also mostly because they weren't allowed to be as crazy as they wanted to be, the democratic systems kept them in line altho they still did some very weird and anti democratic things, specially in Argentina.

[@Jake-cy7to]

@ Aside from that, this video was very accurate and i liked it

[@nomanejane5766]

❤

[@TonyfromTO]

Vamos pan-americanismo! Let's go! 🌎🇨🇦🇳🇮

[@eduardovilla-lg6qq]

i would of watched it but you had to include the dumb background music.

[@carlabraham5582]

Where haiti

[@ididntasktoexisted8250]

I was wondering where did the Latino today came and why I could find any historical thing of them there existed is 400 year

[@fuckthepolice8062]

Mestizaje

[@MeGaLilCe5ar]

It’s cause we Latinos didn’t exist at that time, Latinos is an American (I mean the continents north south and Central America not USA) with Latin America origin .

[@hippolyteetienne6425]

You forgot haiti.

[@monkeypie8701]

United Latin America in the Future???

that has been a proposal for a loooong time, but I don't see it happening in my lifetime.

[@monkeypie8701]

@ if it dosent happen in your lifetime, it won't happen, eventually latin american cultures will differ so much that unifying will become unseeable

@@monkeypie8701 that's a fair point

[@ProfessionalBadPerson]

Cuba a non democracy? That's ridiculous

[@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335]

Are they able to vote for something other than the communist party?

[@ProfessionalBadPerson]

@@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335 Democracy is a lot more then voting for a party, there can be democracy from within a party for instance, also look up Cuba's new constitution and the process they took to creating it, a very democratic process.

[@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335]

@@ProfessionalBadPerson I'll admit I don't know that much about Cuba's system but at least the one party aspect of it is a clear limitation of democracy. It might work, people might not be against it, but it's still limited democracy

[@ProfessionalBadPerson]

@@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335 Multiparty democracy isn’t the only form of democracy

[@icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335]

@@ProfessionalBadPerson i don't mean that there should be multiple parties in power, but it would be a more democratic representation to allow other parties with ideologies opposing the one in power

[@AndrewEnriquez-qx1uv]

Put some Coco Butter on that skin bro

???

[@kevinrobles3203]

In baseball in latino América

[@sgtmayhem7567]

It was a very informative and well researched video, but switching between saying names and places with a Spanish accent and then switching back to accent free English was distracting and became annoying.

Why? Those are their names

[@yuriyu123]

Typical western approach: start from the conquest. LA political history/issues start way before that. For instance, Inca rulers continued "living" (through a shaman, probably) even after death, thus they didn't lose their riches, possesions, political power, etc, and the new ruler had to kinda start from scratch to earn his right to rule... Sounds nice to some extent, but against a major power like the Spanish, that's bs tbh, it's another disadvantage to the list, lol. And the Inca were a new empire in the region, meaning that the peoples they had conquered would have gladly supported any form of liberation, which they did when the Spanish arrived. The inca resistance then fled to the mountains... and today is reflected in the eternal fight between coastal cities, mainly Lima, (whites and mestizos - right wing) and "everything else" (mestizos and natives - left wing). The solution? Probably end exploitation caused by globalization, or return to monke.

The idea is to cover this in a short period of time. What you just talked about occurs in a single country. And Latin America by definition cannot begin before the conquest. It exists because of colonization. Without the Europeans it would be something else entirely. It might be South America or Middle America or who knows, but it would not include the places it does from Mexico to tierra del fuego. And of course it would not be America or Latin.

[@waterbottlecrinkle6973]

@I kind of agree with the guy about the western approach starting at the conquest Yes you’re correct by definition it would be a completely different thing I love the video and would like to see a history of Latin America before colonization

[@ciudadesoscuras]

Nothing about the theft of half of Mexican territory.

That’s covered in the history of Mexico video, the US-Latin American relations video, history of Texas, history of California, and history of the US-Mexico border.

[@lamedvavnik33]

The massive history vídeos in english are crap like this.

I'm confused by your comment. What exactly are you criticizing?

[@lamedvavnik33]

You didnt Mention also that The fact The continente has several countries and isnt United is due to England's policy and treaties in The XIX century to weaken The People and industry and mantain an industrial colonialism.

[@lamedvavnik33]

Funny you say that liberals dominated The XIX century with dictators and slavery. With liberals like that Who need conservatives?!

I didn’t mention that because that’s not true. Central America and Colombia alone couldn’t hold themselves together and it has very little to do with the UK.

But that’s who dominated. And that’s what they called themselves. Am I suppose to change their name to make you feel better?

[@carlabraham5582]

What? It's wrong....

[@KevinLopez-pu7ll]

Do not call it Latin America, this is the name giving to it by France. It is Hispanic America. The french hated they try to collapse empire for 300 years and failed over and over until Napoleon backstab the great Spanish people.

I don’t think the brazilians and haitians would like it if we called it Hispanic America.

[@Maria-oh1nq]

@ we call it what we want and we dont consider haiti part of latin america

@@Maria-oh1nq who is the we you're speaking for?

[@daniloprocopio1992]

​@Maybe most brazilians, yes, I don't know, but as one of them, it doesn't really matter to me whether america is called Latin or "Hispanic," since it was a continent dominated by the Spanish Empire; so it's all the same to me 🤝.

[@santo8389]

@@Maria-oh1nq Haiti is the 1st independent Latino nation.

[@p.m.8316]

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