Social Studies May 22th 2020.

INTERNATIONAL KOREAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.

TEACHER: Fátima Castillo.

TEMA: Nicaragua in the second half of the 20th century.

OBJECTIVE: 

At the beginning of the 1950s Nicaragua was in a phase of economic recovery after having faced a long period of stagnation in its economy.

Cotton ranked first in Nicaraguan exports. This was another of the contributions of the dictatorship to thhr plans of the plans of the United States, since it had to buy all the supplies and machinery needed for growing cotton, in addition to loans.

To ensure this cultivation, the fertile lands that were dedicated to cereals in western Nicaragua were expropiated from the small farmers, who mostly had to emigrate to other regions of the country. Those who stayed in their places of origin, becaame agricultural workers being forced to work on the large cotton plantations in order to survive.

Somoza was clear of his commitment, and in turn to assuring the bourgeois landowners of the conditions for production. In exchange, he received military and economic support from the United States.

ACTIVITY: Make a summary about the topic.

NOTA: Enviar la asignación el día martes 26 de Mayo.