One of the major issues facing Latin America is the production and distribution of illegal drugs‚ which include cocaine‚ marijuana‚ heroin and more recently methamphetamine. This geographic area is crucial to the illegal drug industry because it is the world’s only source region for coca‚ which is used to produce cocaine (this is harvested in Colombia‚ Peru and Bolivia). Also‚ Central America‚ Mexico and the Caribbean are the main corridors for transporting drugs to the United States and Europe
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In Latin America 25% of Latin Americans lives on 4 dollars a day or less. Compared to The United States‚ Latin America is very unstable in several ways for several reasons. This instability is important because it affects the lives of everyone that lives there. Looking at how Latin America developed you can learn why it’s unstable. Latin America developed an unstable government because a lack of foreign intervention‚ industrialization‚ and authoritarianism. (Deyonna Lansden‚ Tamia Roshell‚ Quin
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associated with Latin culture ("Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet"). As noted in “Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet‚” (2011) document from the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center website‚ Brazil did not make divorce legal until 1977. “In recent times‚ due to more Western cultural adaptations and increased financial autonomy‚ women face less of a stigma when divorcing and have greater freedom to choose this option ("Marriage Trends in Latin America: A Fact Sheet")
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History of the Americas HL Required Summer Reading Study Guide Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America By John Charles Chasteen Foreign Affairs November/December 2000 states: Born in Blood and Fire is a briskly written yet sophisticated introduction to Latin America that will be greatly welcomed by non-specialists and experts alike. Chasteen paints on a very broad canvas‚ but he succeeds in capturing with enviable conciseness the major ingredients of Latin America’s uniqueness
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(Jennings‚ 2002). Within human rights‚ scholars focus on labor‚ civil and educational rights. This latter‚ it is present in all the regions: from Europe to Latin America. In Latin America‚ student activism is not confined within the educational institutions; student activism also connects with the domain of politics. In the past‚ Latin America witnessed how student activism
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There are many popular Spanish speaking countries in Latin America with Cuba being the largest island in the Caribbean. Found just off the coast of Florida‚ the communist country of Cuba has many crime issues which include a large commercial sex trade and drugs. The age of consent is 16 whereas it is 18 in the United States. Cuba is surrounded by countries used as cartel way stations. Latin American drug flows to the United States are shifting away from Mexico and toward the Caribbean. Fidel Castro
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The Latin America debt crisis What Happened Both internal and external for Latin Americas roller coaster economic performance in what was known as the crisis. During the 50’s and 60’s there was favorable conditions in place to maintain steady employment creation‚ capital investment and overall economic expansion. But this period ended in 1973 amid the first world oil crisis rocked the world economy and caused an era of debt-led growth among the oil importing Latin America countries. Latin American
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have altered throughout its history. Its deleterious effects on citizens and national governments have been most brutally evident in Latin America. The expansion of drug cartels and their increasing authority and influence in Latin America posses various national and international threats. Additionally‚ the contradicting notions on the root of the conflict in Latin America have stalled and created extreme variation among possible solutions‚ ranging from military action to eliminating corruption to settling
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The Americas are usually referred to as the New World because they weren’t discovered until 1492‚ and no one in Eurasia and Africa knew of this landmass. Both North and South America were colonized by European countries; North America by the English and the French‚ and South America by the Spanish and the Portuguese. Although they were both colonized by Europeans‚ North and South America are quite different in terms of economy‚ political structure‚ and culture. Geographical factors‚ such as climate
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BRICS see greater role in Latin America June 3‚ 2013 Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra‚ specially for RIR The grouping’s engagement in the region‚ consisting of 33 countries with population of 600 million‚ has become timely. Last week witnessed some crucial developments from BRICS perspective. The Cuban foreign minister visited New Delhi and sought BRICS’ partnership with Latin American countries‚ representatives from Cuba‚ Haiti‚ Costa Rica and Chile met Russian Foreign Minister‚ Sergei Lavrov
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