Grassroots Issues

There are many interesting grassroots solutions that are available for us to talk about. I found these two issues to I would like to talk about first that I thought were interesting and informal issues like these are Important. Talking about these topics in the news would shed light on how other people live in different countries. Even though it is now the 21st century times now are still suffering because of the early 15th century when the Europeans came to these southern countries during that time. These issues are very important to the world not just to the Southern region of South America. Often times these countries like Cuba and Venezuela do not have much rights as the wealthy and because the wealthy donate money politicians the wealthy are usually in control. The lack of democracy in …show more content…
Venezuela is also known as a Extractive economy because they have “transportation which is dominated with the sale for things like cacao or coffee finca, and then oil site to port” (Course Themes). Also another important country that we are reading about is about Cuba which is also an extractive economy according to our course theme notes “Cuba was led from plantation to ports” (Course Themes). Cuba like other southern American country had imperial powers mixed into their economy and political world. Something Richard Gott says that backs up my claim which is “The imperial powers involved with Cuba’s affairs over centuries invariably followed up their initial seizure and settlement with a preoccupation about the island’s defences – although results were often slow in coming” (197