Numerous internal movements had been crushed, although they were successful for a time in Mexico and then in Cuba, revolutionist spirit allied the independent Latin American countries in a common fight for emancipation.4 The Cuban Revolution was especially exciting to Latin America and was seen as a major step to a better future for all the nations in South America. ... After the Cuban Revolution, Castro gained power and soon was recognized as a follower of Marxism and had open relations with the Soviet Union. ... In "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta," the "good" revolutionaries battle the ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It's a huge amount of benefit that many governments ever dreamed of: "[but] the Central America had no such resources. ... It's funny and it's the fact that all Central America governments, one time or another, wanted to build ocean-to-ocean railroad, taking advantage of the narrow territories of the continent. ... However, this also started to raise a concern from the local public that a foreign company contemned the law, broke the contract with the government. ... United were forming a "fruit monopoly" which later on involved many lawsuits and government's ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Source 1) In Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and Trinidad, Yoruba religious rites, beliefs, music and myths is evident these days. ... In Brazil, Yoruba religious activities are called Anago or Shango, and in Cuba they are designated Lucumi. ... Santeria, the adaptation of Yoruba and Ifa with Catholicism, came to the states first with Puerto Ricans in the forties and fifties and then with the flood of Cuban refugees in the sixties. ...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School