The historical site that I chose to visit was the Museum of Latin American Art, otherwise known as MOLAA. I decided on this specific site partly due to my personal interest in the arts, but also because the museum reflects the history of Latin American leaders in the arts and politics. If that wasn\...

The twentieth century, specifically the period of after WWII was a period of great change for Latin America. One of these changes has been immigration from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and etc. Many people incorrectly believe most Latin Americans...

Part 1 The first inhabitants to occupy the Americas were Europeans from Spain and England. These settlers had the greatest deal of diversity spread through cultures and over the land. Each in itself created its\' own powerful empire and ruled and governed its people. These two groups also fought for...

The region now known Buenos Aires had outgrown Spain's political and economic domination in 1776. By May 25, 1810 a revolution broke out because of the discontent with Spanish interference. Soon in 1816 it led to an independence from Spanish rule. Independence revealed the furious regional disc...

What would it be like to live in a time of desperation? What would it be like to look up to foreign values instead of \'culturally\' your own? I would like to dive into this subject with this paper, to analyze cultural aspects during the latter part of the nineteenth century that show how Latin Amer...

FTAA: A Risk for Latin America All pregnant women deserve the right to keep a job in safety conditions, but this is not the case for Laura Martinez, A 19 year old single pregnant women who lives in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Laura already has a one year old child. In order to feed herself and her chi...

Mural painting is one of the oldest and most important forms of artistic, political and social expression. Mexican muralists, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros revived this form of painting in Mexico. Their murals were based on the political and social conditions of the...

"Azucar" or sugar in English, is a Spanish metaphor which means that you should live a sweet way your life. Usually this is said when people is complaining or overworking, or even if you are happy at a party or dancing, people will say Azucar as a way to remind you that life is beautiful and you sho...

While still in office, President Bill Clinton emerged from a meeting with 33 Western Hemisphere leaders and made an ambitious pledge. By 2005, he promised, a ''Free Trade Area of the Americas would stretch from Alaska to Argentina'' and ''will be the world's largest market.'' He had the idea of comb...

Why was the first Mexican Revolution successful? Many factors made the first Mexican revolution successful. Revolutions in other countries, discontent people from all classes, and passionate revolutionaries were among the factors that led to a successful revolution. King Charles III took th...

Mexico\'s membership of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since 1994 has attracted major investment from foreign countries. The focus of the foreign investment is on manufacturing. Nearly all the world\'s major companies are now present in Mexico. For example, according to the Economi...

Native American civilizations thrived in the Western Hemisphere before Europeans discovered the "New World." These civilizations had many similarities and contributed much to the development of the Latin American culture today. Each civilization was a part from each other, however they had accompli...

Soccer is the number one sport in the world. If you go to a sports bar in Latin America or Europe, that's what you will hear. Soccer this, soccer that. But come on, who would even conceive preferring soccer than the soothing sport of golf? But no, this soccer fervor is atrocious. You go to Sout...

It is very surprising to find that our most patriotic symbol, the American flag, is often made in countries besides our own. At the beginning of the war on terror, Wal-mart was forced to take certain flags off their shelves because, ironically, they were made in Afghanistan. Even today, many of our ...

Problems and Promise Since the United States started counting the population, African Americans have always been the most dominant minority. However, now Hispanics outnumber African Americans as the largest minority group, with 38.8 million of them now living in the USA, according to Census Burea...

NAFTA, or the North American Free Trade Agreement, is the most significant attempt at regional economic integration. An agreement between the United States and Canada to enter into a free trade agreement took place January 1, 1989 with the goal of eliminating all tariffs between the two countries b...

Native American civilizations thrived in the Western Hemisphere before Europeans discovered the "New World." These civilizations had many similarities and contributed much to the development of the Latin American culture today. Each civilization was a part from each other, however they had...

Physical Characteristics of Mexico Mexico's Geography, Topography and Climate It is estimated that Mexico has an area of nearly two million square kilometers, commonly defined by several regions: Central, Western, Northwestern, Baja California, Baja California Sur and the Northeastern Region...

Slavery in the Americas was quite diverse. Mining operations in the tropics experienced different needs and suffered different challenges than did plantations in more temperate areas of Northern Brazil or costal city's serving as ports for the exporting of commodities produced on the backs of the en...

History has an important and major subject that is responsible for what we now coin as modern America. This historical subject is that of the Spanish conquests that took place in the early 1500's and there was a significant factor that they implemented in their conquests. Evangelization or oth...

Since the announcement from there finance secretary, Jesus Silva Herzog that Mexico could not make payment on its $90 billion debt, it caused a lot of ruckus and chaos. A year after Mexico's announcement more than forty other countries ran out of money and announced that they could no longer pay the...

After all of my research on the Aztecs, Mayas, and the Incas I have found that they were all very similar but also very different. The Aztecs settled down in the Lake of Texcoco. That started the development of Tenochtitlan which we now know as Mexico City. The Aztecs were a warring and nomadic tri...

BENITO JUAREZ There were many websites that popped up while researching Benito Juarez on line. They were very interesting because most of what they had to say was very little. However, there was a lot of information on the things that are named after Juarez, like schools, airports, and stree...

Mexico, the United States\' neighbor, directly to the south is a country of many contradictions. It is typically looked at as poor or \"third-worldly\" by many, yet it is has one of the most advanced public telecommunications network in the world. Its capital Mexico City is as cosmopolitan and mod...

A Small Accident Do you know more than one language? If you do, have you ever found yourself starting a sentence in one language and ending it with another? As a young girl, I used to mix my languages. Naturally, I did this while learning the English language. I applied the rules of the Spanish l...