1. moved away from import substitution 2. poverty and inequality 3. military leaders took harsh steps to maintain their control 4. to promote economic cooperation 5. military regime 6. by backing anti-communist military regimes 7. a growing income gap 8. peron took steps to silence political opposition 9. American intervention did not result in more democratic governments 10. party bosses repressed political opposition 11. numerous latin American nations and the us joined together 12. nonviolent civic protesters
D. Military leaders took harsh steps to maintain their control.
Explanation:
All throughout the second half of the 20th century, most Latin American countries suffered through several military governments that were not democratically elected, most notably in the case of Chile where Pinochet, with the help of the USA, overthrew the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. Every country that suffered this kind of rule experienced harsh governmental controls —where opposing individuals faced often even death— that made this governments long-lasting and extremely detrimental to their societies and economies, effects which, in many cases, like in Brazil, are felt even to this day.
