A Brief Note On Urban And Rural Terms

Central America has been plagued in the past with drugs, violence and poverty. This is a concerning issue because it have affected the lives of many people who now want to move away because of the death rates that has risen up because of the violence in the area. Due to the thousands corruption, poverty, and violence occurring in Central America, the Central American Government has allowed the immigration crisis to exceed in its country.

This paper attempts to differentiate rurality from urbanity. Rural-urban differences abound and can easily be demonstrated. These can be demonstrated occupationally, ecologically and socio-culturally. What to appears not to be easy is to explain these differences. While these differences used to be explained in terms of rural-urban dichotomy and continuum, this could not be used anymore as it is recognized today that dichotomies and continuity of rural and urban based on the three parameters mentioned above often times create more ambiguity that it has solved. While occupational differences can still be used as differentiating criteria of rurality and

The Guatemalan civil war began because the government and military were greatly abusing the citizen’s human rights. In result to this communist led gorillas began an active political war of terror in 1961. There underlying cause of this is the discontent both politically and economically between the people and the government. Economically the government supported the domination of an elite class in society. This

Guatemala once was a magnificent vacation country for many Americans. Now, many Americans are choosing a different getaway.Guatemala has seen many changes to daily life due to drug cartels and street gangs. Drug cartels and street gangs have been taking over the cities and rural areas. These two very dangerous groups of people have been threatening some people and killing others. Many families have to pay to guarantee a safe life. If a family can not pay, they have to escape their homeland. The cartels and gangs ruined many families and traumatised many more. The citizens need help but, not from only themselves. The government needs to help and realize that there is a problem that can ruin their country. The government needs to take

Urbanization is a concept that is deeply rooted in the increase in a population within a region in response to the availability of unique opportunities. The opportunities may include the availability of employment chances in factories, investments opportunities in the urban areas, and the presence of sufficient housing and social infrastructure. It is apparent that urbanization began centuries ago in different regions of the world. However, the development of suburban areas has also been an interesting phenomenon over the centuries. Initially, people strived to live in the luxurious houses in major towns and cities. Nevertheless, there was a gradual shift in the desire to live in the cities when various negative impacts of overpopulation

Guatemala is a country of the Central American persuasion. It is bordered by Mexico to the west and Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador to the east. Like many other Central American countries, Guatemala is an under-developed country; the country has struggled economically due to debts owed to foreign countries and negative trade balances. The country has mostly stuck to a traditional agriculture as their source of main commercial income, which has proven ineffective, considering that more than half

Guatemala started to export coffee in the 1800s. This made Guatemala an agricultural country mostly from the 1800s-1950s. In fact, 12% of Guatemala's area in 1950 was used for agricultural purposes. However, the number dropped down to 1.1% by 1979. Agriculture employs 30%-40% of people in Guatemala but are often paid inadequate amounts of money to support a family because they are manual labor. From 1950-1970, the number of farm families that were not making enough money to support themselves went up to 37%. From 1979, 2 % of the population owned 65% of the land; this means that a very small percentage of the population owned the majority of Guatemala's land mass. Guatemala also had a democratic period from 1944-1954. During this democratic period, they made an agrarian reform measure, which means the government narrowed the land for agricultural use. They also had a long civil war from the 1960s-1990s which killed, injured, and left thousands of people as refugees. The government also wanted to promote economics, but the poor were not included in the benefits ("Poverty in Guatemala" Avivara). Guatemala has been developing for years and their development has very much contributed, and improved poverty at the same

Guatemala is the heart of the Mayan world. It is alive, magical, and ancestral. Its history proceeds from four thousand years ago when the Mayan civilization emerged and whose legacy is still evident in the traditions and culture of its habitants. Guatemala possesses an extraordinary cultural and natural richness and a privileged geographic location. The distances one most travel from place to place are so short that one can visit different regions during the same trip.

Guatemala is located in Central America. It bounds with Mexico in the north and the west while it borders on the east by Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. Guatemala is divided in three main regions: the cool highlands, the tropical area and the tropical jungle. Each of these regions has an important characteristic that make them very distinguishable between each other. Most of the Guatemala’s population is concentrated in the cool highlands region.

These problems hold Guatemala back because they cannot grow in the right ways. Higher powers are continuing to grow but the lower-class families cannot. Many children have to stay out of harm’s way by staying at home which also poses a problem of personal growth. On the other hand, the United States is sending money where it shouldn’t and the United States doesn’t understand the problem. Guatemala may say the problem is work or uneducated, but I would argue that people don’t feel safe to go anywhere. Criminal justice is the problem that needs to be taken care of. People are not held accountable for their crimes because evidence gets tampered with or the cases don’t get looked at. Those are the problems, not uneducated

Guatemala was a very distinguished traditional country. In 1850 Guatemala embraced more liberal financial policies because they were so dependent on the transportation of agricultural as it began to bring awareness to the development of roads and buildings and because coffee started to expand at that time, Raffeal Carrea took most of the land from the Mayans.

Thousands of Salvadorans and Guatemalans, many from rural areas with little formal education, fled north in response to the repression and violence of war. In contrast, those who

Urbanisation is the process in which people move to the city and start to make a home there. This is mainly happening in LEDC countries due to the lack of work in the countryside. People flood to the cities to try and find employment. Suburbanisation is the way that people

Internally displaced peoples from the highlands of Guatemala, as in much of Latin America, often seek refuge in the outskirts of their nations capitals. In Guatemala City and in other populous Guatemalan cities throughout the country, families have made their lives anew after years of violence and tragedy. The history of mass migration towards city centers and their outskirts can be traced to the overthrow of the democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz, in the year 1954, which was the catalyst for a 36 year long civil war in the Central American nation. Many of the countries indigenous Mayan population faced and still face high levels of discrimination, genocidal violence, inadequate housing, coupled with high infant mortality rates, and low levels of literacy and education attainment, their plight is one that is well documented. The indigenous populations have remained in a more or less stagnate position, until recent upturns in the 21st century. In addition, in the year 1992, Rigoberta Menchu, an indigenous Mayan woman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism and account of the extent of the Guatemalan genocide. The Guatemalan republic one with high levels of biodiversity, and extremely abundant in natural resources such a woods, jades, and minerals, I argue, has lead it’s poor and its disenfranchised on a road towards high ecological and environmental disaster, through misuse of their military, inadequate policy, and planning when it comes to the dangers

Panama’s agriculture has never depended on plants such as corn, for they have never grown them. A large number of Panamanians are employed through agriculture, though, just with the job of growing bananas. Bananas are the main export of the country, and half of the land of Panama is used for the