Latin America Challenges

Problems in the world vary on many different scales. Whether it be a life or death situation or a personal or global conflict, we are faced with difficulties everyday of our lives. However, some people in the world have a more challenging existence than others and one of the problems I would like to solve is the poverty and suffering in Latin American countries, especially Guatemala.

To understand the evolution of political institutions in Latin American and Caribbean countries one must understand the history of how politics have typically been corrupted, often dictatorial, and infrequently democratic in these regions. “Latin America has been a region that has experience foreign invasions, instabilities of institutions, and revolutions”. Latin American countries such as Chile, exemplify a country that has experienced an evolution from an authoritarian rule to a democratic regime due to factors such as the political structure, stateness, economic performance, social institutions, and international power and influence, that have contributed and, or hindered to a democratization.

It is very important to analyze the evolution that has taken Latin America because many countries have made lobbying and plan strategies that have served to encourage better structure and have significant growth in this area, though often stagnate countries and are limited in their development.

Endemic poverty and political instability are two factors that profoundly influence Latin America. The causes are individual for each country and or region. The use of the term endemic emphasises the individualistic and enduring nature of these causes. Therefore, when comparing the causes of endemic poverty and political instability in Mexico and Guyana there will be substantial differences. They are nevertheless, in a similar region of the world, therefore, similarities are also probable. Contrasts emerge due to proximity to the US and similarities are evident in the marginalisation of rural citizens. Both countries have suffered from poor governance and brutality of poverty.

The history of modern Latin America begins after the Second World War when the economic changes wrought by the war, namely the shift towards manufacturing and urbanization, produced political and diplomatic changes across the Americas. The end of the war led to increased imports from the West, reducing the competitiveness of Latin American industry. Additionally, falling crop prices led to increasing urbanization. The result of these economic and demographic shifts was the rise of a populist movement throughout Latin America.

“There is systemic corruption in Latin America.” Corruption is rooted in the psyche of the Latin America population and together with the procedures make impossible or incredibly long, the people prefers to bribe in order to make the procedures. Moreover, corruption affects the highest levels of government. In order to face this problem, “Latin America has made significant progress in combating poverty and inequality.” The economic development of states in Latin America benefiting from the international trade but it not enough to maintain economic stability within states, deviant globalization creates an opportunity to transnational crime organization to realize deferent activities like drugs trafficking, human trafficking. The Western Hemisphere presents deferent problems unlike other regions of the world, mainly Latin America is affected by problems of corruption and drug trafficking. Weak states is the biggest challenge in Western Hemisphere, because corruption in Latin America is one of the factor that creates lack of rule of law, in addition a weak economy and absence of adequate law enforcement creates a safe haven for transnational criminal organization. Moreover, the region presents serious problems in the quality of democracy regarding human rights, as well as illegal immigration. In fact, the effects of globalization both affect weak states positively and negatively, to respond to this challenge states must cooperate to economically develop the region and

Latin America politics in the past 50 years have been regarded as being unstable with military regimes, authoritarian rule, and violent. Latin America has been considered an authoritarian region with rulers either military or civilian directed. 3 governments are important to stabilize countries with tension of nation crisis by eliminating the popular sector in the national politics. In Argentina the prevalence of authoritarian changed the principal lines of the former government in their social, economic, and political ideas. Argentina in the early 1930s was led by a “populist” government, which was the dominant national political coalition, then converted to an authoritarianism government with alternative economic strategies, and improved

In an ever-constantly changing world people always seek out a better life; this is especially true for the children of South America. This is a serious problem though, in our amazing world there are dark spots, and some of them can be found in poverty-stricken south american countries.

High level of inequality and corruption has always afflicted the region and also frustrate the implementation of successful reforms. These enduring setbacks in the region will always enable the rise of prophetic leaders with false promises of a better life and economic growth. After more than a decade of shameful corruption scandals and incompetent leadership, South American countries have been able once again to break up from populism and voters have decided it was time to move

As children grow up they lose creativity due to being impacted by the real world. Just as the children growing up mourn losing creativity, Latin American people mourn losing happiness in their country. The regions in Latin America were controlled by totalitarian governments and had to deal with many basic rights taken away from them. This caused a lot of social realism in writing, which was expressed through Latin American writers. Social realism was described through dark tones, atmosphere and allegories to help readers understand how the authors felt during this time in their country.

By far the largest, most populous and prosperous country in Latin America, it has also overcome more than two decades (1964-1988) of military rule to a country that embraced democratic rule, while facing the challenge of keeping its industrial and agricultural growth and developing its interior. Exploiting its ever vast natural resources and a large labor pool, Brazil today is Latin America's leading economic power and a regional leader, overshadowing the likes of Mexico and Argentina. Highly unequal income distribution, and deep hidden racial animosities still lingers on in this exotic country although softening from 2004 onwards, remains a pressing problem, along with a high crime rate and poverty, specifically in large

The economic relations between the Eagle, the Dragon, and Latin American countries are in full transformation. With the countries that have been major economic partners for the region; the European Union and the United States, going through economic crisis, China has come to play a very important role. As the US loses influence among these governments, the Asian giant gains more and more ground in economic matters.

The US market crash of 1929 affected all Western industrialized countries; however, the repercussions sensed by Latin American countries were quite severe, especially throughout the years to come. The establishment of US investments in Latin America and the exports Latin American countries provided to the US were about to take different paths. During this time, the economic development of most Latin American countries was based mostly on agriculture and mining, but the shift towards structural economic and political strategies had a profound consequence on each one of these country’s economies.

Brazil remains in the top 10 for world’s largest economies, however this economy is plagued with issues. According to surveys on the Latin barometer page a large portion of its citizens asked in these surveys say their current economy isn’t working, statistics for how satisfied they are read at 39.6% for not being

The prospect of achieving Mercosur’s progressive new vision is fraught with challenges as much as it is inspired by hope. United States interests will continue to resist losing their economic and political grip in the region. This will not be the only obstacle facing the success of this new vision. The sheer magnitude of the project will require a serious commitment, and Latin America’s diversity of political beliefs and cultures could prove to be more marked than its homogeneity.