lecture notes 5.2.13 US-Latin America Policy 1823-1946 * Increasing US influence and intervention * After the removal of the Spanish monarchy’s control in the Americas‚ Cuba and Puerto Rico are the last vestiges of Spanish control in the western hemisphere * International rivalries and how they play out in this hemisphere during this period is important * Once the civil war is over‚ the US‚ as it is industrializing‚ is concerned with what they termed “our backyard”
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Colonization of Latin America and North America When Christopher Columbus led a Spanish expedition in 1492 to India‚ he came across a land that would change the world forever. This region was called the Americas‚ a land the Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ French and English saw as their own to change and rule. However‚ the two regions‚ Latin America and North America saw two vastly different yet similar colonization processes from the Europeans in their social‚ political and economic systems
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Is Wal-Mart Good for America? Currently Wal-Mart has 4‚227 stores in the U.S and 3‚210 internationally. Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. In 2004 Wal-Mart accounted for 6.5 percent of the retail sales. In 2004 Wal-Mart had 1.3 million employees (Emek Basker). Sam Walton‚ a former JC Penney employee‚ started a small store named Walton’s in Bentonville‚ Arkansas in 1945. It grew into a multi-million dollar retail company known as Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has done great things for
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Chapter 9 Latin America Shock therapy in economics • Economic shift from a government-dominated economy to a market economy. What are the policies? • Privatize state owned businesses • Eliminated Price Controls • “Liberalize” Trade to introduce competitive pricing into the economy (Remove Tariff Barriers) • Privatization from 500 to 25 business from 1973 to 1980 • Drastic Budget Reductions • Radical restricting of the public sector and reduction in its spending
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evident by the video about “Is Wal-Mart Good for America?” that was published by PBS. This video mainly described the negatives about Wal-Mart and rarely talked about the positives like saving people money. Most of the negative portrayal business receives from media is based on how some businesses actually do their business. Thus‚ for Wal-Mart to save people money‚ Wal-Mart has to demand and pressure suppliers into lower prices every year. To do this suppliers have to outsource their production
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Vienna‚ revolts plagued many European countries as well as several areas in Latin America. France was driven from Haiti‚ Portugal lost control of Brazil‚ and Spain was forced to withdraw from all its American empire except for Cuba and Puerto Rico. Colonial government in South America came to an end. Three countries where revolts were successfully established were Haiti‚ Venezuela‚ and Brazil. The countries in Latin America benefited from the revolts because they became free from colonial rule‚ but
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Wal Mart is a store that is dedicated to keep low prices for the consumers of America. The low prices that they keep due come at a cost not only to the employees but industries trying to make enough money to stay in business and be able to pay their employees. To be able to keep the prices low Wal Mart is no stranger to using foreign labor. "The sweatshop conditions in which thousands of employees of Wal-Mart ’s suppliers routinely work‚ and the depressive effect that Wal-Mart has on working-class
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recognized within and industry and among countries. Kimberly Process is one of these causes‚ which show how they have fought against how African countries trade diamonds creating continuous civil wars and human abuse2. Bringing awareness to the world of what was happening in Africa to get diamonds‚ brought positive impact founding the KP organization‚ which seeks to control‚ approve and regulate diamonds trade. KP achieved to controls diamonds mining by almost eradicating wars. Another positive example
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The journey of Christianity in Latin America from its inception to modern times has been an interesting phenomenon to observe. Todd Hartch’s book‚ The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity‚ outlines this rebirth and attempts to explain the causal mechanisms behind the event. He writes‚ “the history of Christianity in Latin America since 1950 defied expectations not so much because there was a rebirth of Christianity‚ but because of how that rebirth occurred” (Hartch 2014). This paper will be
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Latin America is a vibrant land of many cultures all having a shared history of Spanish and Portuguese influence that created what we have today. In the modern era most of Latin America speaks Spanish‚ English‚ and Portuguese however‚ that wasn’t always the case as the indigenous people of the Americas had over 100 different languages. These different languages made it quite difficult for the Spanish during their exploration and colonization of the new world. Many early interactions between the Spanish
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