BORN IN BLOOD & FIRE CHAPTER 9-11          

                                                         Beginning of Chapter 9 
                                                                      REVOLUTION

After World War II, Latin American industrialization lost momentum. The 1930s nationalist dream of economic independence proved difficult to achieve in the postwar world. Meanwhile, population growth accelerated as improvements in sanitation and health radically lowered the death rate. Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, and Brazil had been the worlds fastest-growing countries since 1900. In 1900, there were 61 million Latin Americans; in 1950, there were 158 million...