South AmericaSouth America

Government and Economy Government and Economy

South AmericaSouth America

EconomyEconomy CitiesCities IssuesIssues

•Developing or Developing or middle income middle income countries.countries.

•Agriculture, Agriculture, subsistence and subsistence and commercial farming commercial farming

•Wide range of Wide range of industrial productsindustrial products•Mercosur important Mercosur important free trade group. free trade group.

•Large parts of each Large parts of each country’s population country’s population living in big cities.living in big cities.

•Rural-Urban Rural-Urban migrationmigration

•Urban poor living in Urban poor living in slums that surround slums that surround the city.the city.

•Crime and lack of Crime and lack of services in these services in these areas.areas.

•Poverty Poverty

•Amazon Rain Amazon Rain Forests being Forests being cleared for farming cleared for farming and ranching.and ranching.

•Soil exhaustion Soil exhaustion and overgrazing and overgrazing the landthe land

•Border disputesBorder disputesTerrorism and Terrorism and political corruptionpolitical corruption

Government ReviewGovernment Review

RepublicRepublic: People have an impact on : People have an impact on its government. its government.

Federal RepublicFederal Republic: Division of power : Division of power between the federal government and between the federal government and local governments.local governments.

Constitutional RepublicConstitutional Republic: Everyone : Everyone elected to represent the people must elected to represent the people must govern according to constitutional govern according to constitutional law. law.

Country Government Country Government

Country NameCountry Name Government Government TypeType

Leaders NameLeaders Name Economic Economic SystemSystem

Columbia

Brazil

Chile

Peru

Republic

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Argentina

Federal Republic

Republic

Republic

Republic

Constitutional Republic

Market

Market

Market

Market

Market

Market

President Cristina Fernandez

President Hugo Chavez

President Alan Garcia Perez

President Juan Manuel Santos

President Sebastián Piñera

PresidenDilma Rousseff

Major Presidents of South AmericaMajor Presidents of South America

President Cristina Fernandez

President

Dilma Rousseff

President Hugo Chavez

President

Sebastian Piñera

Images of South AmericaImages of South America