The Venezuelan Revolution

Julia Alvarez is the narrator and author of this book, in which it describes her and her families life adjusting their immigrant ways to their new life in the United States. Alvarez has grown up with her Dominican culture but throughout the book she tries her very best to fit into

Simón Bolívar was born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was born into a wealthy family, who took their money from rich gold and copper mines they owned in Venezuela. At the age of three Simón Bolívar's father died, then six years later his mother died. After the death of his parents, he moved to Spain in 1799 where he continued his education and married a daughter of a nobleman, María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaysa in 1803, who later died of yellow fever during a visit to Venezuela.

Fifty-four years ago an economic and political crisis stuck the country of Dominican Republic, sending thousands of Haitian immigrants to “America the Beautiful”. In a stunning collection of short stories titled Drown, author Junot Diaz recounts the brutal struggles immigrant’s faced to achieve a dream of “rags to riches”. Repeatedly immigrants found that “…two hands and a heart as strong as a rock,” isn’t always enough (page 168).

In writing this piece Masur took several years hunting down primary sources from various collections, both private and government controlled, in South America. Due to this his work boasts an impressive repertoire of primary sources including letters by Bolivar, memoirs, speeches, official proclamations, diaries, and government resolutions. This base of primary sources is the perfect foundation for writing a biography that focuses on the diverse elements of Bolivar’s life. Of particular value were the letters and documents written by Bolivar himself as they helped the reader understand Bolivar’s frame of mind. Masur also sites an array of secondary sources,

Culture shock: what white America feels after reading this book. Juan Gonzalez’s Harvest of Empire encases what most Latinos want to say, but always gets muted for. The empowerment behind the title is such an intricacy yet soft to the touch. This book will make any reader reconsider about everything they’ve learned from any culture. This book covers most atrocities committed to Latin America by Spain and the US. The factor of white hegemony, hunger for power and possessions, discrimination, conquest, and the terrorization by Americans in Latin America makes this book difficult to read as a Latina. The limelight of this book is in Puerto Rico, Cuba and Mexico because how relatively close these three countries are in relation to the US. Gonzalez’s main argument of this book is to demonstrate to America how Latino presence is becoming a commonality and it will be normalized. Furthermore, it talks about the second wave of immigration and how pivotal it has become. Finally, he discusses

Irene Rinaldi seems to have accurately fit the conflict of the entire nation of Venezuela within the confines of one cartoon for The New York Times (3). The first figure that confronts us is that of a hand, larger than life, tightly grasping a weapon. This is the chilling portrayal of a nation’s military force aimed at surging masses of its own protesting people. According to Petra Cahill and Laura Saravia

As an optimistic person, I try to dig the good while the shovel hurts my back. As someone that is brave, I try until God says otherwise. Hope is my driving force and I can say the same for most immigrants fighting for survival. This essay will be about, the good that people often ignore. This can be the outcome of every experience. Our willingness to maintain a positive lifestyle, or the purpose that drives us to be better. In a short word, this can be described as “Hope”. To begin, this essay will include the fiction short story of Ha Jin, “The House Behind A Weeping Cherry”, another example, “Invierno”, by the famous Dominican writer Junot Diaz. A third important passage is “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Throughout the essay, the reader can see the important message of the three stories which is not giving up and maintaining a high hope.

As a child the young Guevara “developed a persistent cough and later serious allergic asthma” (“CUBA: Castro’s Brain”) prompting his family of seven to “move to the hill town of Alta Gracia” (“CUBA: Castro’s Brain”) a city 250 miles northwest of Rosario. During these youthful years, “his father … started [Ernesto] rambling through some of the 3,000 books, mostly leftist sociology and history, that crammed the family bookshelves” (“CUBA: Castro’s Brain”) among which were “the works of Chile’s Communist Poet Pablo Neruda” (“CUBA: Castro’s Brain”) which compelled the young boy greatly to further explore leftist ideologies. Neruda’s poetry, which had a great influence on the young boy by presenting the great struggles of the Latin American peoples, was characterized by its stark depiction of human suffering as seen in his poem “United Fruit Co.:” “… in the seaports’ / sugary abysses, / Indians collapsed, buried / in the morning mist: / a body rolls down, a nameless / thing, a fallen number, / a bunch of lifeless fruit / dumped in the rubbish heap” (Neruda 45). Along with the political writings of Karl Marx, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Vladimir Lenin – all socialist thinkers and leaders in their own like – the young Guevara entered politics at the age of 14 “as a member of a nationalistic youth group specializing in

This essay will examine the Cuban revolution with a major focus on the contradictions of the Cuban revolution. The first questions that must be asked when looking at any revolution are chiefly: What is a revolution? When did the revolution start? And why did the revolution start?

Pancho villa was a man who not only was a legend. He was a revolutionary hero, military leader, and a fugitive. Many people know him as the person who fought for the rights of the poor. He was there to support his kind and protect them from what they call the “rich people.” That’s how the Mexican revolution began. Before he was known as “Francisco Villa”, he was Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula, born June 5, 1878 in San Juan Del Rio, Durango, Chihuahua, Mexico.​

The reaction to Hugo Chávez’s death has caused a huge stir up in not only Latin America, but in the United States as well. There are many different opinions on how much Chávez’s death will affect the country of Venezuela as a whole. Certain articles state that his death is a positive for the country and how the country will now develop in a better way. Other articles state that his death is tragic and many people are saddened because of how much he has helped build the country. Regardless, most people feel as though the country will continue to develop. In the first article, “The U.S Reaction To Chávez’s Death: From Mourning To Celebration” by Tom Watkins, there were different opinions on Chávez. On one side, many people were celebrating

Bolivarian process consists in understanding social transformation as shaped from two directions - the "top" and "bottom". This process is different from the traditional Leninist or social democratic approach, which sees the state as the central driving force of change. The transformation in Venezuela is the result of tensions between the two kinds of power: "constituent power" and "constituted power". The major player of changes is a voter. Constituent power is legitimate, joint and creative abilities of human beings to be implemented within the movement and organized social base. In a Bolivarian process constitutional power is a state and its institutions, whitch intended to facilitate the bottom-up processes. Thus setting the condition persists even after Chavez's

The Mexican Revolution began November 20th, 1910. It is disputable that it extended up to two decades and seized more than 900,000 lives. This revolution, however, also ended dictatorship in Mexico and restored the rights of farm workers, or peons, and its citizens. Revolutions are often started because a large group of individuals want to see a change. These beings decided to be the change that they wanted to see and risked many things, including their lives. Francisco “Pancho” Villa and Emiliano Zapata are the main revolutionaries remembered. These figures of the revolution took on the responsibility that came with the title. Their main goal was to regain the rights the people deserved. The peons believed that they deserved the land that

My husband and his family left Venezuela 12 years ago, because the situation was not the best and because the government was controlling way too much. I believe communism has the wrong idea about the economy. Since people receive almost everything for free and the government can take your property away whenever they feel to, you are not motivated to produce or open your own business. It is very difficult to be auto efficient and avoid business relations with other countries when materials are needed to produce goods.

Cuba is a nation that has been conquered by many people over the years and because of decolonization it is hard for the Cuban people to get rid of the rulers who wanted to influence their history. Fidel Castro gave the Cuban people independence. He was a forceful and cunning dictator who controlled the country and negatively effected the economy. The United States did not support the arrogant dictator’s establishment of communism which led to an economic downfall. Due to Castro 's insistence on practicing communism, the Cuban economy suffered as the government nationalized businesses while the United States implemented a trade embargo.