of the New World. Between 1810 and 1826‚ revolutions broke out across Latin America. Several Latin Americans resented the jurisdiction Spain had over its colonies in North and South America. The leaders‚ Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin‚ were two of the significant Latin American leaders during the attempt for the independence of Spain. These two men derive from a social class known as Creoles‚ which were born in the Americas yet their ancestors originate from Europe. Peninsulares‚ who were Spanish
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The Solitude of Latin America Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982‚ fifteen years after the publication of his book One Hundred Years of Solitude. His speech accepting the Nobel Prize‚ lived up to his stature; a brilliant author and narrator seamlessnessly blending the real with the unreal‚ the ordinary and the magical. The speech offers glimpses into Marquez’s thoughts pertaining to Latin America‚ to his childhood and to humanity as a whole. Marquez’s speech
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During the 1800’s US and other colonies from Europe wanted Latin America to become a source of materials‚ and to become a market for goods. The US and Europe nations started to build mines‚ railroads‚ and bridges. The US and other nations began working together while both using the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine is an principle of the US policy‚ but then the governments of Latin America started to think that the US was going to use the Monroe Doctrine to defeat all of Western Hemisphere
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If Latin America can create a democratic union that supports business and a strong economy this will cause a chain reaction and help stimulate other areas of interest. With the decreased strength and influence of organized crime along with a decrease in government corruption we will begin to see local and foreign businesses within Latin America succeed. This in turn leads to many things; an increase in exports‚ domestic wealth
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a movement and genre within Latin American and Iberian music of folk music‚ folk-inspired music and socially committed music”. Nueva Cancion is seen as playing a powerful role in the social upheavals in Portugal‚ Spain‚ and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. Nueva Cancion started in Chile in the 1960s and was known as “The Chilean New Song”. Soon Nueva Cancion started to emerge in Spain and other areas of Latin America. “Nueva Cancion renewed tradtitional Latin American folk music‚ and was
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For more than a decade‚ the Latin American region relied on "socialism of the 21st century‚" as the driving force for positive change as the world economy was experiencing surpluses beyond belief. This era of plenty was coined the “Pink Tide” – (a reference of the leftist movement’s political philosophy) as Leftist governments took advantage of an already sustained commodities boom after blaming the market oriented policies of their predecessors for economical challenges they were facing at the
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face living in Chile. For Example in one of his songs “ I Remember Amanda” he sings about a girl name Amanda and losing her loved one to the mountains. Many people did not return to the factory. In Eduardo Galeano and Isabel Allende they discuss Latin America as a region that is placed for others to constantly use to their benefit. In the song El Aparecido‚ it talks about having been crucified. I believe he is talking about a revolutionary force being killed. Victor Jara used singing as a means of protest
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colonization that later established the defining conflicts in Latin America that remain evident up till now – culture clashes‚ religious and military conquest‚ slavery‚ as well as economic exploitation . However‚ beyond these refulgent themes and grand historical events‚ an important topic that is often overlooked is what life was actually like for women in Colonial Latin America. This paper explores the role of women in Colonial Latin America‚ with the goal of understanding women in their society and
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spatiality how are urban spaces typically organized in Latin America‚ Europe‚ former Soviet Union? understand different scales of analysis available and what benefits and burdens they provide: local‚ national‚ global be familiar with maps as representations of space and important map features (e.g. legend‚ scale‚ orientation)‚ how are maps a social contruction? Region specific points: Understand the triangle of trade between Europe‚ Africa‚ Americas – what regions were involves‚ what resources flowed
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2013 The Haunting Memory and Terrors of Psychological Torture TESTIMONIO History is not a single‚ linear truth or perspective‚ but rather it is made up of a collage of interpretations‚ memories‚ experiences‚ and analyses. In the recent decades in Latin America‚ testimonial literature has immerged as a popular form of such collective expression and ideology. This form of narrative emerges from the need to create social awareness and consciousness to exploitation‚ mistreatment‚ and oppression faced by
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