Indigenous peoples in Brazil

different indigenous groups live with in the Amazon rain forest and have been living there for hundreds of years without disturbances .Founded in 1996 Amazon Watch campaigns for human rights, working closely with indigenous people of the

The Political Community The “social apartheid” that exist in Guatemala separates Guatemala into two places and does not allow the country to be united, both democratically socially. The indigenous population is separated from opportunities. Without the minimal conditions, necessary for citizens to exercise their rights in practice there is not citizenship and therefore no “true” democracy. New democratic institutions must both address the anxiety existing among Ladinos and prove to be responsive

Federative Republic of Brazil. Brazil is the largest country in South America, it is located in Eastern South America and it borders the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil borders many countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Brasilia is the capital and it is located in the Brazilian highlands in the country’s Central West Region. Brasilia was founded on April 21, 1960 and since then the population of Brazil has grown to about 201

from being conquered by Spain and Portugal, to the people fighting for its independence and finally, making a living as newly independent countries. From the years 1850 to the end of the 19th century, each region had influences, specifically those that dealt with the after effects colonial rule had on the land. Nations that made up Latin America began modifying different portions in their government in attempts to benefit the majority of the people. More or so, they accomplished this goal, each with

Felix de Souza,” in Crossing Memories. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011), 70-103. This chapter is about Franscisco Felix de Souza who is among the most widely studied slave merchants. Francisco is known of his slave trade activities between Brazil and Benin during the period of the transatlantic trade. The author’s main concern is to explore postmemory elements of Brazilian slave trade from a biographical perspective of the life of Fransisco. An introspection into the life of Franscisco, according

analyzed through the lens of religious origins, though the power of the government. African slaves were forced to adopt the Portuguese language and the Catholic religion. Capoeira mixes popular culture, music, and martial arts. It was developed in Brazil, mainly by descendants of African slaves, and it is characterized by the use of primarily “kicks, head butting, kneeing, elbowing, and acrobatics in the ground or air” (De Miranda). One feature that distinguishes Capoeira from other martial arts

#1 Brazilian Economy For my Latin American country I chose Brazil. The Labor force in this country varies by occupation. The main three occupations, according to the CIA World Factbook, are agriculture, services, and industry.  Some import commodities are machinery, electrical and transport equipment, chemical products, oil, automotive parts, and electronics. Here are some of the trading partners: Some export commodities are transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, and

and South America have been heavily influenced by colonization and slavery in language, religion, and immigration. The Europeans and French in both the United States and Canada had been inhabited by the Indigenous or the First Nation who had not only their culture wiped out; but, their entire people group slaughtered by European diseases. Though slavery and genocide binds these two realms, the differences in the Americas are intriguing on how they impact these places. In North America the language

which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste, rather cane sugar has been shown historically to have generated a complex process of cultural change altering the lives of all those it has touched, both the people who grew the commodity and those for whom it was grown. Suprisingly, for something so desireable knowledge of sugar cane spread vey slow. First

the US, racial equality is an ideology that is forced on too many and is perceived as truth. Thus, it is important for people to be more aware of racial discrimination on both historical and current events because there are many that confuse the coexistence of mutual races to be racial equality, allowing for those in power to create a strong foundation for a racial hierarchy. Brazil, much like the US also continues to ignore its issues of racism and how they discriminate their own citizens based on