... favor of a new currency - the Austral - which was initially attached parity to the dollar. By 1991, the "Radical" party, having failed in their attempt to control inflation and having gone a period of hyperinflation akin to that suffered in Germany following World War I, had been replaced by the Peronist party, who headed by Menem replaced the Austral by the Peso and implemented ... ". As a result, Argentina achieved economic growth nearly at an annual rate of 8% at the first half of the 90s, mostly driven by external investments and an increase in trade over a period of economic stabili...

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... Latin American represents the golden age of the caudillos (military leader). The time was thick with political instability and the chaos of the period created confused and disjointed political campaigns. The most successful caudillos had alliances with a number of popular groups and depending on the nation they were either Indian, Black, mestizo, or a combination ... ...

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... finally decided to join Brazil and Argentina and signed the Asuncion Treaty on March 26, 1991, which contained the same precepts as the Buenos Aires Agreement. The Treaty defined a "transition period-, i.e. the time between the moment it was signed and December 31, 1994, during which the members would implement an intra-Mercosur tariff reduction program. They would also negotiate a common external ... Asuncion, the four member countries agreed to create an institutional structure for Mercosur by signing a protocol modifying/complementing the treaty. This protocol was signed at the end o...

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... 50 percent of GDP in 2000. Trade balance shifted to a surplus of US$896 million in the first half of 2000, from a deficit of US$397 million in the same period of 1999 as a result of increased competitiveness, a gradual recovery of trade, a slow increase in imports, and a 14 percent increase in exports. In 1999, public finances deteriorated resulting in a weakening of ... ...

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... and to bringing social justice to the oppressed. From the similarities with the Manifesto it could be argued that "Guevaraism evolved from the first within a Marxist-Leninist framework" in the period from 1951 to 1959. But it appears Che's first commitment was to "the struggle in Latin America against Yankee Imperialism", liberation, and to the "...creation of a new man- fully integrated ... ...

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