Latin America Research Paper

Located on the Pacific coast of Central America is the county of El Salvador. It’s a country similar in some ways to the US, when compared together. All of its history, culture, climate, geography, and economy have shaped it into the country it is today.

What would it take for one country and their people to do whatever is necessary to attain freedom and rules that would pertain to a better future? Throughout the revolutions, these questions have been answered, but fight after fight is the most noticeable action as seen so far in the chapter. This leads to the question, how would a new government cause issues, instead of helping? Latin America faced many issues dealing with independence and struggled in many areas and needed to develop a new strategy, so the issues with independence can be resolved. However, the development of the nation did not occur well due to the structure of their new government and the people wanted them to know that the old system was what they were looking for and the treatment of the people was not stable.

The progress of Latin America economically has made differences for the better or worse for several countries. In Central and South America, there are resources, industries, and agriculture that has been made gradually through the years. However, before the economic Latin America many know today, other civilizations lived first. In Central America, the Maya, Aztec, and Olmec lived there. (Document 1) The Mayans were known to live in the Yucatan Peninsula, while the Aztec lived in Tenochtitlan, and the Olmec in present day Veracruz and Tabasco. (Document 1) In South America, lived the Inca. The Inca lived in Peru, Chile. (Document 1) Aside from earlier civilizations, there are also four zones of climate. (Document 3) These types of climates are Tierra Helada (Frozen Land), Tierra Fria (Cold Land), Tierra Templada (Temperate Land), Tierra Caliente (Hot Land). All of these have different livestock and crops depending on the climate.

As a Hispanic Studies minor being able to spend a whole year in a hispanic country is a complete dream come true. Being completely immersed in the culture I fell in love with six years ago will be able to open so many doors for me in my studies of hispanic societies. This will help increase my written and oral language abilities and my knowledge of the culture. However, I think the biggest lesson I will get out of studying abroad will be the power to be more open minded. Learning about a new culture teaches one to look at situations in a different way than they are used to. This will be useful in my dream profession as a child advocate lawyer. I will have to be able to assess the problem in as many different ways as possible to decide how the

Peru is rich with minerals, natural resources, and precious metals such as silver, gold, copper, timber, iron ore, coal, potash, phosphate, petroleum, and natural gas. Natural resources have created Peru's infrastructure jump in growth in recent years. Peru has been building roads that go through different types of terrain to include mountains, rainforest and urban areas. Peruvians have updated their railway systems that transport civilians to and from their jobs all throughout the country. Although Peru is wealthy; unfortunately the majority of this income from these natural resources does not make it to the miners and farmers that work long days in order to acquire the resources for global sale. Many of Peru's citizens still live in poverty

The country of Colombia resides in the northwest region of South America next to the North Pacific Ocean. Colombia is a neighbor to many countries including Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Venezuela and is considered the fourth largest country in South America. Temperatures in Colombia can vary significantly due to the difference in terrain across its geography, which ranges from 0-5,775 meters (cia.gov). The variation of geographic features makes Colombia an excellent home for many natural resources, ranging from minerals such as iron ore, nickel, gold, emeralds, and copper, to natural energy resources and fuels – specifically natural gas. Natural gas accounts for a large output of resources and provides around 65,110 barrels of refined

The indigenous people of Tairona, Quimbaya, and Muisca were the original inhabitants of what is now referred to as the Colombian territory. The year 1499 marked the arrival of the Spanish and the commencement of a period of colonization that led to the creation of Viceroyalty of New Granada. According to Manning and France (2006), "the Viceroyalty of New Granada was one of the four Viceroyalties which framed Spanish government in eighteenth-century Spanish America, alongside those of Peru, New Spain, and Rio de la Plata" (p. 114). The period of colonization came to an end in 1819. Colombia according to the Central Intelligence Agency CIA (2013), "was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830." Venezuela and Ecuador are the other two countries that emerged from the said collapse. However, it was not until 1886 that the Colombian Republic was finally declared.

“The quinceañera is like a rehearsal wedding without a groom, and it sends a clear message to the Latina girl: We expect you to get married, have children, devote yourself to your family” (49). This shows the expectations young women are addressed in Latin American families. At every quince there are a set of rituals before finalizing the entrance of woman. Besides the party a mass is conducted before hand. They're “promising God that you’re not going to have sex till you’re back at the altar, getting married” (Priscilla 52). A quince is a celebration constructed through society but built on conservative religious values. Unfortunately, this is not one hundred percent effective to young girls to give insight that they have a whole life ahead

El Salvador’s earliest settlers were the Pipil Indians, who resembled the Aztecs, and dominated the landscape. San Salvador the capital the was established by Spanish explorers and would remain the capital of the country. The Civil War that EL Salvador went through was assisted in part by the US through training and supplies. The history of El Salvador and the years of unrest led to the US help the country to establish it political structure.

Did you know Bolivia is one of the only two countries in South America to still have Chinchillas. They used to roam all over South America but today they are only found in Bolivia and Northern Chile. They were hunted to near extinction by the Spanish. Bolivia is full of great places to see, friendly people, and great cultures. Bolivia is one of two landlocked countries in South America.

The central american nation, El Salvador, holds a rising economic status, currently sitting at 66th in the world a much welcomed state when compared to their standings in 1980 during their civil war. El Salvador’s regionally ranked 16th, with the population of 6.4 million people rising at a rate 2.4% and the 5 year compound growth population of 2.1% ,the GDP is $52.9 Billion. A great influencer in the establishment of tourism is the amount of public spending. El Salvador is a very culturally rich nation, but similar to the United States some of its regions suffer from gang related violence. The adoption rate of technology in El Salvador is much slower than that in america, but that can be changed with investments in

My dearest Alma your mother tells me you have started you final year of schooling and I could not be prouder to say that I am your Abuela. You mother also told me that you have taken quite an interest into our family's history and have wanted to know more about where your mother’s side comes from. I am writing to you now because I believe you will be able to understand the complexity of what took place in Honduras during the turn of the twentieth century and more importantly why my family decided to flee. Strangely enough the commodity that helped cultivate this change and transform Honduras into an enclave economy was the banana. The extreme control that the banana industry had over the government of Honduras was so strikingly deep that the

History of the region from the pre-Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.Latin America is generally understood to consist of the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean whose inhabitants speak a Romance language. The peoples of this large area shared the experience of conquest and colonization by the Spaniards and Portuguese from the late 15th through the 18th centuries as well as movements of independence from Spain and Portugal in the early 19th century. Even since independence, many of the various

Neoliberalism gained prominence in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s, and was organised around promoting laissez-faire principles of the free market (Harvey, 2005, pp.7). In Venezuela, neoliberal supporters Carlos Andrés Pérez and Rafael Caldera implemented widespread privatisation and deregulation, notably of the hydrocarbon industry (Ellner, 2008, pp.92), plus eroded the welfare state and social services (Meltzer, 2009, pp.90), resulting in a socio-economic crisis leaving 54% of Venezuelans in poverty (Muntaner et al., 2006). However, the turn of the 21st century marked a significant transformation for Latin American policy (Escobar, 2010). This came in the form of the ‘Pink Tide’: the election of left-wing governments in opposition to the neoliberal ideology (Enríquez, 2013). The election of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez in 1999 spearheaded the anti-neoliberal movement (Orhangazi, 2014). Chávez desired an alternative to neoliberalism falling between ‘savage capitalism’ and ‘failed communism’, with the aim of directly controlling and improving education, healthcare, food supply and other basic needs (Jones, 2008, pp.437), thus coining the ‘Alternative Bolivarian Agenda’, a direct response to Caldera’s neoliberal ‘Agenda Venezuela’ (Meltzer, 2009, pp. 92). The Bolivarian Revolution provided the foundations for an anti-neoliberal social transformation, by implementing nationalisation and participatory democracy (Azzellini, 2010, pp.8-9).

The consumer market in Latin America is very diversified, is not just an aggregate of low income and poor consumers, as most people would think. It is highly segmented, “their differences, based on lifestyle and attitudes, have a significant impact on shopping behavior”, “emerging consumer aspire to buy brands