Latin America

United States, the dividing factors between both parties in Latin America differed throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Due to the importance of the Catholic Church in early Latin American history, identifying as liberal or conservative at first depended on supporting the Church. The meaning of the terms further developed during the Rondon Commission and the era of neoliberalism. Liberalism and conservatism in Latin America were not always understood in a contemporary political context

values and standards, but one common thread binds them all together- liberation. The theme of liberation or freedom manifests itself in works from all over the world, taking on different aspects to fit the time in which the story takes place. In Latin America, writers explore the concept of social realism, in which an artist depicts contemporary life realistically in order to make a political comment on society’s current situation. This stems from a long history of turmoil and unrest in the region,

the ideal picture of solitude in Latin America though his words he expressed in his Nobel Prize speech. Gabriel Marquez lived his childhood in a small isolated town in Columbia alongside his grandparents. Marquez was rudely denied a VISA to the United States due to his thoughts about the U.S military. However, Marquez was still able to publish and sell millions of copies of his novel “100 Years of Solitude” which later became the second most read book in Latin America, following the Bible. In Gabriel

Historically the United States and Latin American Relations have shifted from conflict to cooperation. During the Cold War Era, the United States’ overt and covert actions to stop a second Cuba at any costs in its own backyard are undeniable. However, time has proved that the United States’ policy towards Latin American has changed. Current issues in the United States-Latin American agenda evolve around what some have called “the Hispanic Challenge” and illegal immigration. Since drug trafficking

implementing this approach in Latin America? Latin America has been the pioneer region in developing Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Programs. In the late 90’s, CCT programs represented an important innovation in social policy, as they attempt to alleviate poverty through cash transfers in exchange to improve human capital, deviating the focus from social assistance to social development. These policies have been successful , but even with the evident progress, in Latin America 200 million people (37.8%

From the literature presented in a course dealing with United States relations with Latin America during the Cold War, it is interesting that political and cultural intervention in Central America, as an important and driving social construct, is not a central role in the observations and analyses of the scholars. While it would make sense that our Western understanding of the concept does not translate in the same ways in this particular context, it still seems as though studies of the political

spread of communism in Latin America, was interfere in the inner policies of their countries. They were involving themselves in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. They were trying to convince Latin America that it was in their best interests to stay away from communist beliefs. America was afraid that if communism spread to the neighboring countries it would eventually come to the United States, so they felt it was their duty to prevent it from ever entering Latin America, to “nip it in the bud”

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

The physical geography of Latin America and the Caribbean greatly affect where people live by making some places are more desirable than others. One examples is the Panama Canal, which is runs across the Panama Isthmus in Central America. The Panama Canal is a large man-made canal, that connects the two largest bodies of water in the world. People live very closely to the Panama Canal, meaning it has a high population density there and in the surrounding areas. The population around the canal is

American expansion to foreign territories influenced the economy and military of Latin American nations. This was encouraged by ideas of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny is a belief of “Americans’ God-given destiny to conquer the frontier” (Gonzalez, 43). The United States would intervene when they believed that Latin American societies were unstable. They believed that Latin Americans were incapable of controlling their countries; in addition, they were all seen to be indigenous people, so they