Latin America

Race in colonial Latin America was different from race in the United States of America. In colonial Latin America “race” was measured in terms 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…

as a state 's ability to provide political (public) goods such as security, political process participation, infrastructure, education, public health, and sound economic management to persons living within designated borders. State capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean region has collectively increased as a result the region overcoming a long history of civil war, corrupt authoritarian rule, and economic stagnation. The region is mostly characterized by developing countries that have…

How have people in Latin America created culture? Culture is defined as the quality in a society or a person that arises from a concern related to the excellence in things such as the arts, letters, and manners. It is also connected with the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. In Latin America culture was always present and it comes from various different aspects. Some of those aspects are the food, language, religion, arts, literature, music,…

Most parts of Latin America have been struggling to implement or enforce democracy for the past century. The most notable examples are Argentina and Chile. Many political scientists have argued that this is mostly due to internal factors such as the corporatist culture and lack of proper structural reforms, but they do not include external pressures from the international sphere to curb communist influence in Latin America. In this paper, I will argue that from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the…

Colonial Latin America is a very important time period that shows us where the roots of social and cultural prejudices were created. Women in particular have faced challenges fighting constraints and prejudices, like the preconceived notion that women are inferior to men; however, there are many women that fought against those normative ideas that grounded central themes in social rights that are still important today. In the hispanic culture, women learn how to cook, clean and are seen as more…

The central theme of this book is that you can’t understand the huge Latino presence in the United States if you do not understand the US role in Latin America, the Latino presence in the country is, in fact, a product of the harvest of empire. This presence is the result of over a century of domination. Most of the immigrants came from countries that were more dominated by the United States. Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Salvador and Guatemala are the countries from which…

The mining industry in Latin America is one of the many extractive industries that constitute the export-driven economies of the global South, and to entertain the notion of abandoning these industries is both fiscally and socially irresponsible. Furthermore, the rise in leftist government regimes in Latin America has opened up a path for a more progressive approach to extractivism to rise to prominence, albeit, not completely abandoning extractivism in the traditional sense, this…

Race in Latin America (1804-1920) Race in Argentina and Cuba, 1880-1930: Theory, Policies, and Popular Reaction, by Aline Heig; In the Analysis of the writing of Sarmiento, Bunge, and Ingenieros; Heig explain the believe in the racial theory in Argentina and Cuba. She explained about the different treatments during those times in which the social and racial class it was divided. Cuba and Argentina it characterized by the separation of skin color. The Anglo-Saxon in Argentina and Cuba have the…

immigrants are fleeing their home countries due to violence and the ones that are already here have already been incorporated into our society. Many of these fears that Americans have towards illegal immigration are unfounded and untrue. Therefore, America should help out these countries that have extreme violence and create a more simplistic path for citizenship for these illegal immigrants. In a recent poll, many Americans felt that illegal immigrants were hurting the American…

In 1810, many Latin American countries gained independence from Spain’s American empire, customs and allegiances that had been established since 1492. In Toward Independence, Fuentes notes that in 1810, eighteen million people lived under Spanish rule between California and Cape Horn (Fuentes). In total, there were eight million indian’s, one million blacks that were brought through by slave trade and four million caucasians (Fuentes). Late-Colonial Latin America was filled with many types of…