Colonial Involvement In Latin America

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It has become clear that the colonial involvement shaped the region of Latin America in great ways. The demand of raw material from Latin America led the way for massive European settlement and slave trade. Ronaldo Munck notes “ eight million of Europeans migrated to Latin America between 19th century to 1930s” (Munck, 2012, p. 25). The European conquers forced the native people to work the mining fields and farming to support their colonial motherland according to Galeano, “colonial America was made to serve europe’s accumilation of capital” (Galeano & Fried). While Europeans settlers and colonial motherland benefited from encounter, native people suffered deeply.
One of the historic legacies that colonial powers to subjugate were that the

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