The US/ Mexico borderlands are the site of a number of “flows” of goods, people, and ideas over the last century. The US is attempting to increase the “flow” of some goods such as food, but restricting others like illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The US has been trying to stop drug smugglers and illegal immigration by setting some policies. When Salinas became the president of Mexico, his number one priority was to stop drug trafficking and smuggling it into the US so both countries could sit and talk about NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). Drug trafficking was and still is the number one problem in Mexico. “During Salina’s six-year term in office, arrests nearly doubled, prominent traffickers were jailed, and principal
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The painting was made by a Spanish painter called Modesto Broncos in 1895. In his work, three generations of the same family are portrayed. The Grandmother (black) is standing on the left looking like she is praying to God. The mother (brown) sitting right next to the grandmother and holding the baby (phenotypically white). The grandmother is raising her hands to the heavens in a gesture for “redemption”: the birth of the white grandson, who will be spared the hardships and memories of the slave-owning past. The Argentine intellectual- and later president- Doming Faustino Sarmiento said “the objective of any government should be to lead the nation from the barbarity into the nineteenth century, into the civilization exemplified by Europe.” Sarmiento was trying to Europeanize Latin America, he thought that Latin America was not advancing towards better infrastructures and communities, it was going backwards. The rural parts of the country were still living in the twelve century and were doing much to change or improve in order to become a more successful country. The Cuba patriot Jose Marti (1853-1895) understood all the strength and weaknesses of Latin America. Marti …show more content…
But, with lands this big, there is always problems like what happened with the laborer Chico Mendes, he was gunned down by powerful ranchers in the Amazon Rain Forest on December 22, 1988. He rebelled against his employers, he was aware that workers like him were being exploited all over the country so he decided to take a stand and attempted to unionize his compatriots for better wages and conditions. While he was trying to do this, he also took a stand for the environment, all he was trying to do was save the natural habitat of the Amazon Forest and trying to stop the land ranchers from burning down the forest so they could build stuff and make money from it. Mendes invented a kind of reverse globalization, creating alliances between his grassroots campaign and the global environment movement. A lot of people have died because they tried to do what Mendes was doing, and nobody has said anything about them, but this case was different from the others. Brazilian officers were forced to capture the person that killed Chico Mendes and the powerful person who ordered the killing. This was something that had never happened before, officials would act like it was not their problem and lot of murderers would get away with it. This was a big problem in Latin America, there was and still is a big
The painting was made by a Spanish painter called Modesto Broncos in 1895. In his work, three generations of the same family are portrayed. The Grandmother (black) is standing on the left looking like she is praying to God. The mother (brown) sitting right next to the grandmother and holding the baby (phenotypically white). The grandmother is raising her hands to the heavens in a gesture for “redemption”: the birth of the white grandson, who will be spared the hardships and memories of the slave-owning past. The Argentine intellectual- and later president- Doming Faustino Sarmiento said “the objective of any government should be to lead the nation from the barbarity into the nineteenth century, into the civilization exemplified by Europe.” Sarmiento was trying to Europeanize Latin America, he thought that Latin America was not advancing towards better infrastructures and communities, it was going backwards. The rural parts of the country were still living in the twelve century and were doing much to change or improve in order to become a more successful country. The Cuba patriot Jose Marti (1853-1895) understood all the strength and weaknesses of Latin America. Marti …show more content…
But, with lands this big, there is always problems like what happened with the laborer Chico Mendes, he was gunned down by powerful ranchers in the Amazon Rain Forest on December 22, 1988. He rebelled against his employers, he was aware that workers like him were being exploited all over the country so he decided to take a stand and attempted to unionize his compatriots for better wages and conditions. While he was trying to do this, he also took a stand for the environment, all he was trying to do was save the natural habitat of the Amazon Forest and trying to stop the land ranchers from burning down the forest so they could build stuff and make money from it. Mendes invented a kind of reverse globalization, creating alliances between his grassroots campaign and the global environment movement. A lot of people have died because they tried to do what Mendes was doing, and nobody has said anything about them, but this case was different from the others. Brazilian officers were forced to capture the person that killed Chico Mendes and the powerful person who ordered the killing. This was something that had never happened before, officials would act like it was not their problem and lot of murderers would get away with it. This was a big problem in Latin America, there was and still is a big