Bolivia

this is where Bolivar studied about enlightenment. Bolivar was tired of being under Spain’s rule and started. After several years of fighting Bolivar and Jose de Sam Martin completed the South American independence movement and liberated Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. This war left Spain with only Cuba and Puerto…

appears to be the most dangerous efficiently this gang was a ruthless, highly organized and much feared Columbian drug cartel that originated in the city of Medellin, Columbia. Never the less, the cartel operated through the 1970’s and 1980’s in Bolivia, Columbia, Central America, and the United States. The cartel found and run by Ochoa…

Lake Poopó, Bolivia’s second largest lake disappeared due to the constant drought in Bolivia and global warming. It is now littered with dead fish and abandoned boats. Three years ago, Lake Poopó took up 4000 square miles of space, twice the size of Lake Tahoe. Now, none of that immense lake remains. The saline lake has also shrunk because of warmer temperatures, fall os precipitation levels from El Niño, and because too much water was taken out of the river that fed into Lake Poopó, local…

While watching Gringo Trails and reading “The Globalization of a Brazilian Fishing Community”, I seen many similarities and differences. One of the similarities I seen at the beginning of the documentary and while reading the article is both Bolivia and Brazil undergo a huge transformation in tourism as the years pass. In the documentary we see that after Yossi’s adventure in the amazon jungle more and more tourist especially from Israel started to visit the country. Something one of the guides…

and lesser known. For instance Christianity has Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism, is the most practiced form of Christianity.This religion started in Judea and has migrated to, many countries in South America, a few being Brazil, Chile, and Bolivia. The Roman Catholic’s are also found in Southern Europe, and parts of Asia. Out of the whole world’s population…

economic advances following the independence revolutions largely due to their favorable natural resources and geographic position, most other Latin American nations failed to recuperate their colonial levels of production, most others, including Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru, whose economies…

Spanish II Sra. Miller October 31, 2014 Chile Chile stretches 4,300 km along the southwestern coast of South America (Welcome to Chile). The maximum length from east to west is 240 km (Welcome to Chile). To the north, Chile is bordered by Peru and Bolivia (Chile- Geography). The southernmost point is Cape Horn (Welcome to Chile). The southern border is the Drake Sea (Geography and Climate in Chile). To the east, Chile is bordered by Argentina (Chile- Geography). On the eastern side, Chile is…

From mountains to rivers, Latin America has many geographic features that affect civilians in many different ways. 3 major geographic features are the Andes Mountains, Panama Canal and the Amazon River. I will tell you how each feature helps the citizens living near it. There are different positive and negative influences and uses for each. After that, I will summarize the topics one by one. The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world at almost 4,000 miles. It is also one of the…

of appearance, rather than in terms of “ancestry”; whereas it was the opposite in the U.S.A. Peter Winn states, “Andean people have straight hair, so to avoid being ‘Indian’ with straight hair, they would go to a beauty parlor to get a perm.” In Bolivia almost everyone had some kind of Indian ancestry, but they wanted to ignore this and so they did everything in their power to look less “Indian.” On the other hand, in Brazil, a sociologist named Gilberto Freyre established the theory of “racial…

their military might. Around 1532 the Inca were attacked by the Spaniards and their leader, Atahualpa, was killed. They were conquered and all that belonged to the Inca now belonged to the Spaniards. Without the Inca, the countries of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina would not be the same…