There are many popular Spanish speaking countries in Latin America with Cuba being the largest island in the Caribbean. Found just off the coast of Florida‚ the communist country of Cuba has many crime issues which include a large commercial sex trade and drugs. The age of consent is 16 whereas it is 18 in the United States. Cuba is surrounded by countries used as cartel way stations. Latin American drug flows to the United States are shifting away from Mexico and toward the Caribbean. Fidel Castro
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Latin America Test Study Guide 1. Explorers for Spain and Portugal: a. Portuguese i. First to launch large-scale operations ii. Prince Henry supported explorations‚ established court—sent expeditions west to Atlantic islands‚ south to Western African coast—Portuguese settled Azores and Madeira Islands‚ learned about African coast—gold and slaves iii. Wanted water route around Africa to India—Bartolomeu Dias attempted‚ pushed back iv. Vasco da Gama
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One of the major issues facing Latin America is the production and distribution of illegal drugs‚ which include cocaine‚ marijuana‚ heroin and more recently methamphetamine. This geographic area is crucial to the illegal drug industry because it is the world’s only source region for coca‚ which is used to produce cocaine (this is harvested in Colombia‚ Peru and Bolivia). Also‚ Central America‚ Mexico and the Caribbean are the main corridors for transporting drugs to the United States and Europe
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thread that seems to be woven throughout almost every culture‚ country and region is that people deny that racism even exists. In this article‚ we attempt to delve into the different forms of denying the existence of racial discrimination in Latin America. The crux of our argument is that the people of our region are prone to conceal‚ twist and cover up the fact that racism and racial discrimination exists in our part of the world. This phenomenon
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Did you know that around one billion people live without clean water? The water crisis is occurring in parts of Latin America‚ Sub saharan Africa‚ and South east Asia. The women and children have to get the water which is about a three hour walk‚ and the water isn’t even clean. For our class we did a water walk to try to experience what they do everyday. What I would change to make the water walk more authentic is less talking‚ harder terrain‚ and more water to carry. During our water we talked‚
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Political systems are built in a country to manage the institutions of resource allocation‚ citizen’s rights and national security. When the government is no longer satisfactorily maintaining these institutions‚ political change is bound to occur. In Latin America‚ during the 30’s and 40’s‚ the governments of Brazil and Argentina failed and therefore political revolutions overthrew the old regimes. Getulio Vargas and Juan Peron rose to power with Populist platforms appealing to the masses. In order to maintain
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In Latin America 25% of Latin Americans lives on 4 dollars a day or less. Compared to The United States‚ Latin America is very unstable in several ways for several reasons. This instability is important because it affects the lives of everyone that lives there. Looking at how Latin America developed you can learn why it’s unstable. Latin America developed an unstable government because a lack of foreign intervention‚ industrialization‚ and authoritarianism. (Deyonna Lansden‚ Tamia Roshell‚ Quin
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associated with Latin culture ("Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet"). As noted in “Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet‚” (2011) document from the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center website‚ Brazil did not make divorce legal until 1977. “In recent times‚ due to more Western cultural adaptations and increased financial autonomy‚ women face less of a stigma when divorcing and have greater freedom to choose this option ("Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet")
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In the early 1800s‚ Latin America had a revolution of its own‚ in which most of the colonies became independent by taking advantage of France and Britain’s current fighting. Most are not all of the provinces turned countries decided to utilize a Republic form of government. Mexico in particular also agreed that a Republic would be an excellent way to go‚ as it allows the criollos to have complete power over the government. It also allowed them to retain‚ as well as increase their land size to maximize
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The Latin America debt crisis What Happened Both internal and external for Latin Americas roller coaster economic performance in what was known as the crisis. During the 50’s and 60’s there was favorable conditions in place to maintain steady employment creation‚ capital investment and overall economic expansion. But this period ended in 1973 amid the first world oil crisis rocked the world economy and caused an era of debt-led growth among the oil importing Latin America countries. Latin American
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