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The Dominican Republic and Haiti Imagine yourself as a businessperson on a trip to the island of Hispaniola to check on how production is faring. You land in Santo Domingo to transfer to a short commuter flight to Port-au-Prince. During the flight, you gaze outside your window to admire the breathtaking view of the Sierra de Baoruco, with its luscious forests. As the plane approaches the Haiti-Dominican Republic border, you notice that the land has been completely denuded of trees directly

reinforced many criollos ' fears of race and class warfare, ensuring their grudging acquiescence to conservative Spanish rule until a less bloody path to independence could be found. It was at this juncture that the machinations of a conservative military caudillo coinciding with a successful liberal rebellion in Spain, made possible a radical realignment of the proindependence forces. Vicente Guerror, planned to combine independence, monarchy, the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church, and the civil equality

Intervention leads to more intervention, the U.S-Nicaragua relations in the 20th century prior to the Sandinistas is helpful in understanding the evolution of the concept of democracy, and thus in answering the question of whether the U.S can cause a positive impact on Nicaragua’s democracy considering that elections will be held in November this year. Ahead of said elections, Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s president, is seeking a third consecutive term, and has expressed that no international observers

The many references by Junot Diaz to J.R.R. Tolkien's universe in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao prove to be more than just an allusion to the fantastical works. The recurring comparisons of the Trujillato to the power of Sauron are more than just metaphors. They are descriptions. Diaz uses his references to describe people and situations, in real life, that have no other way of being described. The first direct quote of Oscar de Leon is, “What more sci-fi than Santo Domingo? What more fantasy

against each other, in order to monopolize politics in Venezuela, enrich himself to the detriment of the rest, and perpetuate the control of his party in the country. Day to day, people become increasingly poorer in Venezuela.[5] The government this caudillo left behind has become unbeatable and has inspired hate between supporters and dissidents. Violence and insecurity have become appallingly recurring in Venezuela.[6] The rise of Socialism in Venezuela and Hugo Chávez’s way of governing tremendously

$30 million budget compared to the $2 million Los Angeles Olympic Games four years earlier. On the other side, Spain, during the Franco regime, was not indifferent to the political exploitation of soccer. With the arrival to the political power of Caudillo, after the Spaniard Civil War (1936-1939) began the political use of the soccer. The national soccer team was a great partner of Franco to exalt the Spanish “fury”, which was the ideology of his regime, and to exploit the concept of national country

The idea of new imperialism entered the world in the 1870s. Imperialism is the way that countries spread their power into other parts of the world for their economy, white man’s burden, and to gain political power. In Latin America there were both positive and negative effects of being imperialised by America. In America there were also positive and negative effects from imperialising Latin America but their views on imperialism differ from those in Latin America. Imperialism was beneficial for

The twentieth century saw more proxy wars than any time in human history; great powers would flex their martial muscles in smaller theatres of conflict in order to test their own strengths and weaknesses without risking their international reputation as an aggressive nation. The Spanish Civil War served as a significant proxy for the totalitarian European powers in the interwar period; Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany would support the right-wing nationalists while the Soviet Union and various International

COSTA RICA History and Culture of the Hispanic World   I. La Conquista a. Initial Years of the Conquista in Costa Rica Like many of countries in Central America, the arrival of Christopher Columbus in Puerto Limon was met with troubles. However, the Ticos (as they are known) welcomed them with open arms and exchanged gifts with Europeans who passed through the area. Europeans were always given gold, coining the name “the rich cost.” Many natives fled areas penetrated by European settlements due

The fact that Mexico is a highly unequal country is a well-known fact at least since Alexander Von Humboldt’s definition of the region then known as New Spain. Von Humboldt indeed, a botanical geographer that travelled in Latin America at the beginning of the nineteenth century, defines the region as “the country of inequality”. Unfortunately, this is still true in the twenty-first century. Inequality in Mexico is more pronounced compared to Latin America’s average. In fact, it ranks 4th in the world