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Mesoamerica |
Middle American culture hearth. Extended southeast from the vicinity of present-day Mexico City to central Nicaragua. Development occurred in highly different geographic environments. |
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Mainland |
Euro-Indigenous area. From Mexico southeast to Panama, is dominated by European (Spanish) as well as indigenous influences and also includes mestizo sectors where the two ancestries mixed. Domain of hacienda, more self-sufficient and less dependent on external markets. |
part of Mainland-Rimland framework which was conceptualized by cultural geographer John Augelli |
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Rimland |
Based on a fusion of European and African influences. The Caribbean Rimland was an area of sugar and banana plantations, of high accessibility, of seaward exposure, and of maximum cultural contract and mixture. Domain of the great plantation. |
part of Mainland-Rimland framework which was conceptualized by cultural geographer John Augelli |
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CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) |
(2005) mixed blessing: it may increase access to U.S. markets and lead to cheaper imports, but it may also galvanize the dominant position of the United States at the cost of greater intraregional integration. |
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CARICOM (Caribbean Community) |
established in 1989 and today consists of 15 full members, including nearby Guyana and Suriname in South America. Follows the model of the EU. |
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ejidos |
farmland that the government holds title to the land, but the rights to its use are parceled out to village communities and then to individuals for cultivation. |
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ladinos |
name that the better-off mestizos gave themselves which generated a civil war that started in 1960 and claimed more than 200,000 lives as well as 50,000 "disappearances" before it ended in 1996. |
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ecotourism |
based on natural attractions of the country's near-pristine environment. |
ex) offshore coral reefs, Maya ruins, resorts, and casinos |
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remittances |
citizens that left the country and did well in the U.S. and elsewhere send substantial funds back home (remittances). Largest single source of foreign revenues. |
positive outcome of the El Salvador civil war |
