Running head: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH xxxx HUMN xxx xxxx February 11‚ 2011 In 1983‚ Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua in response to word that a growing alliance between priests and Marxists revolutionaries was emerging in Latin America. Historically‚ the Catholic Church in Europe had taken a strong anti-communist stance. And so the emerging alliance troubled Pope John Paul II despite the fact that priests claimed they were simply doing what Christ would do in championing
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Latin America: Where Independence does not come Easy The revolution that took place during the late 18th and 19th century was the Latin America Wars of Independence. These wars led to the creation of many different independent nations in Latin America. Even though they gained independence there was a lot of issues trying to establish who would gain power. This caused a number of obstacles to achieving political stability and economic development. Many leaders from the independence movement had ideas
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In Colonial Latin America‚ the conversion of indigenous people to Catholicism took off in 1493. Catholicism was the religion of choice because the Europeans conquering Latin America were from the parts of Europe that practiced Catholicism such as Spain‚ Belgium and Portugal. The rise of Catholicism would enter England as well with Queen Mary’s reign from 1553-1558. However‚ Spain had a larger role in sending missionaries to Colonial Latin America than England. England is referenced to provide prospective
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Latin America An Overview of Economy‚ Business and Challenges Introduction Latin America suffered during the years of 1980-1990 with political instability and low growth rates. Nowadays the situation is different‚ the region is improving towards economic stability and grater democracy‚ however the reforms performed during the last decade are still incomplete. High rates of poverty and bad income distribution remain as the main problems of the region. The last few years has shown that Latin
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The Catholic Church played a large role in colonial Latin American society. The Church served as a unifying institution in a society made up of many different kinds of people - Europeans‚ Africans‚ Indigenous‚ and mixed-raced individuals - from a variety of economic backgrounds. Documents from the colonial period show that the Church was a maintainer of Iberian social order‚ and its officials and priests were expected to serve as exemplars of their religion. The Church maintained order and conveyed
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Introduction The United States and the Latin American countries have been connected geologically since frontier times‚ and in the late-eighteenth century‚ U.S. vendors started exchanging with Spain’s New World settlements. Amid this period‚ Latin American progressives looked to the United States more and more as a political model‚ an effective case of a settlement diverting from the burden of the European power and building up a republic. In spite of solid weights from some U.S. pioneers‚ for example
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Throughout the past few centuries‚ Latin America created and maintained a split between the center and the fringe of their society which at some points negatively affected them and their potential growth. This split focused on the rural and urban aspects of their countries‚ cities‚ and states and how they interact with each other throughout the 18th century and beyond. During the colonial period‚ the fringe or rural areas were more important than the center or urban areas‚ as the fringe produced
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Examination of Latin America: Brazil The first European settlers to arrive to Brazil were the Portuguese‚ which were led by Pedro Cabral‚ who began to colonies in the region. The Europeans found approximately 7 million native Indians living in the region. Portuguese explorers came in search of valuable goods for European trade‚ unsettled land‚ and opportunities to escape poverty in Portugal. The only item they discovered at the time of value was the Brazil wood tree (pau do brasil) from which they
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Throughout the Cold War the United States considered the installation in Latin America of radical regimes-socialist‚ Marxist-Leninist‚ or "leftist" in any way- to be utterly intolerable. Any such development would represent an advance for the communist cause and a vital loss for the West. Acceptance of this outcome could weaken the credibility of the United States as the leader of the west and as a rival for the USSR. In the eyes of Cold Warriors‚ the consolidation of any left-wing regime in the
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Based on their race‚ social status‚ economic status‚ and culture women within colonial Latin American and Brazilian society had different daily routines and lives and assisted the development of the colonies based upon their cultural‚ social‚ and economic status. For African women‚ slave and free‚ along with Native American women their daily routines were dominated by manual labor on fields and domestic labor with much of their labor fueling the economic growth and development of the colonies along
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