Question

Two questions please help.
1. What was the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in helping Latin American countries?
2.Which was a major challenge in Mexico in the early twenty-first century?

Answer 1

1.
-provided millions in aid to pay poor peasants who worked the fields of haciendas
-offered loans to Latin American countries that encouraged free-market economies
-confiscated money from the drug cartels that smuggled drugs into foreign countries
-provided billions in aid to destroy crops that were used to make drugs

2.
-the threat of a communist takeover
-political unrest and civil war
-constant guerrilla warfare from neighboring countries
-ongoing violence caused by Mexico's drug cartels

Answer 2

@Loser66

Answer 3

@vera_ewing @bohotness

Answer 4

@paki