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    Populist People Influencing Latin America (Argentina‚ Venezuela‚ and Peru) Latin American Politics POLS 335 Nathan Bacon Latin America is at a crucial turning point when talking about political influences and movements in some of regions countries. There have been many leaders that have influenced countries like Venezuela‚ Argentina‚ and Peru. There are not only important figures that are apart of or have influenced important populist and revolutionary movements but there

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    Latin America: A Legacy of Oppression When the Europeans first arrived in Latin America‚ they didn’t realize the immensity of their actions. As history has proven‚ the Europeans have imposed many things on the Latin American territory have had a long‚ devastating effect on the indigenous people. In the centuries after 1492‚ Europeans would control much of South America and impose a foreign culture upon the already established civilizations that existed before their arrival. These imposed ideas left

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    Reaction Paper 1 – The Paradoxes of Latin America by Mario Vargas Llosa The article The Paradoxes of Latin America by Mario Vargas Llosa gives the reader a better understanding of Latin America‚ its background‚ and the ways in which Europeans perceive this region. It also does a good job in explaining why there are many differences within countries in Latin America and the impact that the colonial years had in creating this differences. They had such an impact that these differences are still

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    Nationalism 1. In the wake of neocolonialism‚ Latin Americans remade the nativist rhetoric of the past to push a new nationalist cultural and economic agenda. I. Nationalism 1. Latin American nations had been defined by their internal diversity 1. Transculturation 2. Racial mixing 2. Europeans had associated Latin American difference with a negative meaning 3. Nativism challenged this attitude 4. Nativism faded after independence

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    Ch. 19: Early Latin America Introduction -During the 15th+16th centuries‚ Spain and Portugal colonized the Americas • Colonies were dependent (unlike Russia’s expansion) -Created economic dependency on W w/ lasing effects • Colonies maintained special contact w/ W (like Russia) -But Russia could decide what to borrow; colonies had W forms imposed • Superior tech.‚ horses‚ and disease allowed conquerors to dominate natives • Social hierarchy changed by intermarriage of natives+Europeans and

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    Indigenous People of Latin America Throughout the world‚ when new lands were conquered‚ old customs would be lost. However‚ in Latin America‚ a great deal of their indigenous tribes not only survived being conquered‚ they are still around today. Different regions of Latin America are home to different peoples and many tribes are part of ancient full-fledged kingdoms. Some of these kingdoms are among the most well-known in the world. The Meso-American native peoples make Latin America famous. These

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    documentary‚ Latin Music U.S.A.: Bridges‚ it starts off by talking about some of the various personailty profiles of musicians such as Maurio Bauza‚ Tito Puente‚ Carlos Sanatana‚ and others. It speaks about their coming-up stories of playing Latin Music in the U.S.A. and the experiences/obstacles they went through to make a name for themselves. The documentary starts out by describing Carlos Santana’s personality profile‚ and how one of his first experiences playing latin music in America was at Woodstock

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    Throughout the past few centuries‚ Latin America created and maintained a split between the center and the fringe of their society which at some points negatively affected them and their potential growth. This split focused on the rural and urban aspects of their countries‚ cities‚ and states and how they interact with each other throughout the 18th century and beyond. During the colonial period‚ the fringe or rural areas were more important than the center or urban areas‚ as the fringe produced

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    distinctions between orthodox and unorthodox practices were distinguished (and oftentimes blurred). You may look at Staden‚ the readings on witchcraft and “superstition‚” etc. Beginning in 1492 when the Spanish under the crown of Castile invaded the Americas‚ where their first settlement was in Santo Domingo‚ their main motivations were trade and the spread of the Catholic faith through indigenous conversions and economic gain. Due to these objectives they intervened and attempted to change every facet

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    2008 19th Century Latin America (Option 3) Latin America in the latter half of the nineteenth century began to experience a number of obstacles pivotal to their identity and crucial to their development. The first significant obstacle came right after the wars for independence‚ a challenge and question over who had really achieved independence. The second obstacle was the political conflict between liberals and conservatives and their ideologies of what Latin America should become in the

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