Vicente Fox was a businessman and politician who became president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006.
Somo(za) family is a family that maintained political control for 44 years in Nicaragua. The dynasty founded by Anastasio Somo(za) García. He was the son of a wealthy coffee planter.
Juan Domingo Perón was an army general and politician. He was a populist and became president of Argentina. He brought industrialization in the country and tried to interference in delivering economic and social advantages to the working class.
Lula da Silva is a politician who served as President of Brazil from 2003 until 2010.
The federal system divides the government to the federal governments and smaller governments (the state & local governments for the United States). It is also a indirect democracy in how it goes about passing laws, electing officials to do the bidding of the people.
The more fundamental reason I believe capitalism is speculative and inherently unstable is that the money on which it is based is speculative as well. Contrary to what socialists claim, capitalism, with all of its flaws, is the preferred economic system for lifting the masses out of poverty and transforming them into productive citizens in our country and around the world.
The effect that the Mexican Revolution had on other Latin American nations was that Mexican Nationalism inspired similar economic and political reforms in other countries.