Latin America

The United States and Latin America relationship has been in development even before their official consolidation as democratic and independent states. Transformation in policies, connections and outcomes were a result of particular circumstances within specific countries, relationships along the American continent, and links to European political and historical context, for over two centuries. During the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States was fighting for the unification of…

According to a study done by the United Nations, Latin America is considered the most violent region in the world. It accounts for every 1 in 3 deaths worldwide. As a whole, Latin America's homicide rate is 23 deaths for every 100,000 people, nearly double the rate in Africa, which is sometimes mistakenly believed to be the most violent continent. Most of the time the crime, violence, and murder take place in Northern South America and Central America. I have a friend who emigrated here from El…

Agroforestry techniques are utilized in many parts of the world including Latin America (Sharma et al., 2016). “Agroforestry has been practiced since agriculture began, although it has been studied as a scientific discipline for only 30 years” (Somarriba et al., 2012, p. 430). Agroforestry techniques can improve lands that have been degraded by past uses. According to Somarriba et al. (2012), Latin America now has between “200 and 357 million hectares” of productive agroforestry land. The…

The rapid population growth in Latin America is astonishing when it is known that most couple overall prefer small families. This general preference, however; is offset by the cultural beliefs which influence in contradiction of married couples of having small families. For example, soon after marriage the typical wife becomes pregnant because young husbands fear the inability to product a family. Thus, to the Latin American culture to demonstrate masculinity is to father children. It's a…

politics in order to mend a country in distress. Latin America, a region often minimized to being a corrupt region with disparity between classes, goes through constant changes that cease the politics to a cycle of belabor. Whereas multiple forms of governing have been proposed and utilized in various nations, no nation has garnered the design of treating the systems as a sequence instead of abstaining to a particular system. Jorge G. Castañeda 's Latin America 's Turn Left advocates for a…

causes of deforestation. One of the main reason is cattle ranching. Urban Construction, Agriculture, commercial purposes and illegal logging are some of common causes. Forests are cut down in order to create land for grazing cattle. Especially in Latin America, cattle are an attractive investment of Amazonian farmers, once forest has been cleared that it can be used to produce…

Latin America may be recognized preeminently for its indigenous origins, cultural celebrations, ancient ruins, charismatic music and delightful food, but the media’s representation of Latin America wasn’t always ingenuous. Throughout the years, countries like Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala have been slandered in the media due to the high rates of crime and violence that occurs. As insightful as you may concur the media to be, their sources and information may not always be 100 percent true.…

Mexico and Mexican-Americans within the southern United States. One such type of music that is very popular among these people is cumbia, which is a dance-oriented music style originating from afro-Cuban roots that has spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans settle. Cumbia has grown from its origins across northern Mexico and the southern United States and plays in important role in the cultural identity of the people of these areas. Cumbia within northern Mexico comes from…

People here get thrilled when they read stories of random murders, drug wars, and powerful cartels in Latin America—until they shut it off and move on to the next trending topic. Of course it’s easy to do so, with a country as safe as the United States, where the people could just retweet the trending hashtag and then tune in to whatever mindless drivel is on T.V. But these wicked crimes are some people’s everyday reality, where they have no choice but to receive the worse that humanity has to…

person in the international institutions were from a different environment. Some people were from a low income family, some were from a high income family, some were from Europe, some were from the United States, some were from different nations in Latin America, some had parents from two different countries; the environment itself was extremely diverse. Between all these diverse people, I realized that each culture was special, and that the characteristic of diversity was being developed in…