Argentina and Chile revolution

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Argentina

Argentina has had many crises' with debt, and they also have had a government facing unpopularity in the streets. Mexico's economy has grown very closely tied to the United States' economy,

Argentina's culture has been greatly affected by its immigrant population, mostly European. Their influence contributed to the demise of pre-Columbian cultures, resulting in the lack of a dominant indigenous population. The European immigrant groups each adopted different roles.

Leopoldo Galtieri, had graduated as an officer in 1949 from the United States' School of the Americas in Panama. The former Argentine dictator Leopoldo Galtieri, who in 1982 led his country into a war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, died aged 76, had any sense of wonder, it must have come into play. A few days earlier, the Plaza de Mayo below had been full of citizens venting their rage against the military government that he headed. Now, in the wake of the Falkland Islands invasion, the square was full of cheering people.

His regime, vilified for human rights abuses in the "dirty war" and with failed economic policies, had been transformed into a government that had salvaged national honour by recovering the islands. Galtieri,