Bolivia

After taking down Batista Che became the president of the Cuban national bank and changed the trade rules between the U.S. and Cuba. Che left Cuba to help other countries with their revolutions. He tried to use guerrilla warfare to rebel against Bolivia. In 1967, Che was killed in the jungles of…

associate with the prioritization in education spending (Papanek, 1988). As an example, Bolivia and Indonesia had similar levels of GDP/Capita and education spending back in 1990. The difference relied in where was that spending actually spent. Bolivia devoted 41% of that budget to primary schooling, whereas Indonesia devoted nearly 90%. This fact resulted in abrupt differences in outcomes: 60% primary enrollment in Bolivia compared to 91% in Indonesia (with almost no gender gap). The highest…

doctors and scientists realized the effects of cocaine. People would take the antidote they were subscribed and would realize a need for the drug cocaine. It was not viewed badly nor illegal back then. Cocaine originated in South America, Peru, and Bolivia and is a very popular illegal drug in the U.S. today. It is a very bad drug that changes the chemistry of the brain and sometimes even causes death. Cocaine come from an extracted leaf called Erythroxylon, which is a coca bush. This…

The first thing I noticed was all the tropical forests and jungles. They are all spread over Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. After I observed that, I looked the population density of the countries which had mass areas of jungles and forests. The reason that Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana had sparse Population density was because the countries are covered with jungles which don’t provide spaces…

Being one of the most violent countries in the world, with a skyrocketing national homicide rate, a great deal of this criminal activity and violence can be contributed to the weapon and drug trade operations that are being organized by certain groups in the country. Organized crime syndicates had a direct effect on the country; as they became more entrenched in Brazilian affairs we saw increased drug consumption, changes in the political structure, and the economy begin to fluctuate. “One of…

Lluvia Movie Review In the film También La Lluvia, a film crew plans to create a film surrounding Christopher Columbus and exposing the appalling truths that were committed to the native people on his adventure to the new world. Indian citizens of Bolivia heard about the film and hundreds of them came out in hopes of being hired as an extra. The film was on a tight budget and only a few extras were hired working only two dollars a day. The Indian citizens are not wealthy and need the money…

Roman learns of the cultural differences between America and Bolivia through her experiences growing up. Roman finds that “the biggest obstacles were the small cultural differences” (226). She explains this through stories about her childhood including not being able to go to sleepovers because it is not accepted…

In Bolivia, the government was spending 30 times more than they received as income from taxes (Yergin, 2003). They had a 60,000% inflation rate, making the 1980’s known as “the lost decade” of Latin America (Yergin, 2003). To fix this they had to stop borrowing…

substances. Essentially, the drug problem is displaced to other countries or regions, and not effectively eradicated. Bolivia decreased its coca production by more than half, and this came at a price for the country. Physical abuse and the trampling of civil rights were observed in this country as a result of the reduction. With the reduction of production of coca plants in Bolivia, the problem was displaced to Columbia. Today, Columbia has the monopoly on coca production, and laboratory…

called for an Embargo in 1963, which is a temporary stop to the trading of goods with other countries. But, disobeying Presidential orders, the Curtiss-Wright company continued to sells bombers and planes to Bolivia. The President had a Joint Resolution that disapproved of any weapon sale to Bolivia. The Curtiss-Wright Company still believed they could sell these war devices to…