RECIPE FOR A 20th CENTURY LATIN-AMERICAN NATION
Pick 2 nations we have studied to create a “recipe” that
illustrates the nature of modern nations in Latin America.
Think of the key elements of a recipe:
 ingredients, quantities, instructions, time, etc.
Think of cooking terms and how they might apply:
 bake, roll, knead, mix, stir, reduce,
blend, separate, etc.
set-aside,
For the nations you choose to create recipes for, consider
their social, political, and economic structures as well as
their threats, successes, popular ideologies, and global
influences.
How would you translate these characteristics
into recipe form?
To serve as a brief example:
“Romanov Recipe for Disaster Before WWI”:
Ingredients:
1 inflexible autocrat
1 industrial program that brings people together in
factories
1 war against the Japanese
Directions:
Season with revolutionary exiles, Marxist tracts, and
generic persecution. Exploit people mercilessly. Beat
all these ingredients together. Finally, lose the war
against the Japanese.
Yield:
Big trouble.
Your recipes should be more elaborate than this example.
Here are your choices to pick from.
Choose 1 of the following:
Choose 1 of the following:
-Mexico
-Brazil
-Cuba
-Argentina
-Guatemala