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On May 30, 1498, conquistador and explorer Christopher Columbus set sail on his third voyage to the New World. After his first two voyages around the Caribbean, the adventurer finally set foot in what would today be modern-day Venezuela. These first steps into the New World would forever change South America culturally, historically and economically. Today, due to the historical prevalence of their previous European colonizers, South America has begun to develop into a growing continent filled with industry, trade, tourism, and sadly war. Since its foundation, South America has never compared to the Western world economically. This has affected many people because of a rapidly expanding income inequality, which in turn …show more content…
Her essay, In El Salvador, published in The New York Review of Books, helped carry the message of desperate South American politics into the public eye. While these were positive influences that brought necessary media attention to the West, I find that Joan Didion was unable to fully experience the grittiness and disorder on her two week trip to El Salvador, unlike Unferth who spent months there joining and becoming a “Sandinista” herself. Both of their experiences are completely different but have similar themes such as scorched villages, corpses on the ground and the fixation of the United States capitalistic …show more content…
Aa a result of high exporting prices, most El Salvadorians were paid terribly and unable to feed their families and themselves. The Sandinista Revolution, stunted global economic policies because there was a large pull from foreign investment and the country allowed most of the valuables to be taken out of Nicaragua. Thanks to FSLN sympathizers from Marxist sympathizing countries like neighboring Cuba, the Sandinistas and Nicaraguans were able to receive aid and asylum in sunny Havana. This provided a safe haven for revolutionaries to escape the dictatorships that ravaged their lands. Not only did Cuba, help Nicaragua with aid, it provided Nicaragua with education, medicine, construction and growing technology. In the journal, Cuba and Nicaragua: A Special Relationship? By Gary Prevost, underlines the importance of the relations between the two countries during the 80’s. He states: Given the long and close contracts between FSLN and Cuban leaders throughout difficult and discouraging defeats in Nicaragua, it was not surprising that Cuba responded as it did immediately after the triumph. As time has passed, Cuban support for Nicaragua has solidified and institutionalized, and the survival of Nicaragua has become a high priority for Cuba in the face of U.S attacks. (Prevost
On May 30, 1498, conquistador and explorer Christopher Columbus set sail on his third voyage to the New World. After his first two voyages around the Caribbean, the adventurer finally set foot in what would today be modern-day Venezuela. These first steps into the New World would forever change South America culturally, historically and economically. Today, due to the historical prevalence of their previous European colonizers, South America has begun to develop into a growing continent filled with industry, trade, tourism, and sadly war. Since its foundation, South America has never compared to the Western world economically. This has affected many people because of a rapidly expanding income inequality, which in turn …show more content…
Her essay, In El Salvador, published in The New York Review of Books, helped carry the message of desperate South American politics into the public eye. While these were positive influences that brought necessary media attention to the West, I find that Joan Didion was unable to fully experience the grittiness and disorder on her two week trip to El Salvador, unlike Unferth who spent months there joining and becoming a “Sandinista” herself. Both of their experiences are completely different but have similar themes such as scorched villages, corpses on the ground and the fixation of the United States capitalistic …show more content…
Aa a result of high exporting prices, most El Salvadorians were paid terribly and unable to feed their families and themselves. The Sandinista Revolution, stunted global economic policies because there was a large pull from foreign investment and the country allowed most of the valuables to be taken out of Nicaragua. Thanks to FSLN sympathizers from Marxist sympathizing countries like neighboring Cuba, the Sandinistas and Nicaraguans were able to receive aid and asylum in sunny Havana. This provided a safe haven for revolutionaries to escape the dictatorships that ravaged their lands. Not only did Cuba, help Nicaragua with aid, it provided Nicaragua with education, medicine, construction and growing technology. In the journal, Cuba and Nicaragua: A Special Relationship? By Gary Prevost, underlines the importance of the relations between the two countries during the 80’s. He states: Given the long and close contracts between FSLN and Cuban leaders throughout difficult and discouraging defeats in Nicaragua, it was not surprising that Cuba responded as it did immediately after the triumph. As time has passed, Cuban support for Nicaragua has solidified and institutionalized, and the survival of Nicaragua has become a high priority for Cuba in the face of U.S attacks. (Prevost