Hurricane Junta

Hurricanes are scary, we know. And this one is particularly dangerous. Junta in Spanish means “a military council that rules after a coup de etat.” The several Latin American countries seen in the cartoon were all under the rule of a military council at some point in the 20th century. Military councils are famously unstable and, much like a hurricane, have the potential to bring social and economic strife to a nation. This hurricane is pushing away the possibility of a positive relationship through the Progress Alliance with the United States. The progress alliance was a partnership initiated by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to promote economic and social development in Latin American nations.

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