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While this may not sound controversial now, at the time it was, as Brazilian scientists and doctors would typically attempt to conform to whatever had recently been discovered in Western Europe without trying to generate any of their own original contributions to their fields. The Escola Tropicalista Bahiana, on the other hand, would attempt to merge tropical medicine with the latest European advances, in an effort to producing medical advances that catered particularly to the denizens of northeastern Brazil. In doing so, they effectively challenged the dominance of Rio de Janeiro in the medical field. Since they had no official medical base, they utilized the charity hospital in Salvador, where they began teaching and publishing an influential medical journal. They were thus able to make a powerful and effective contribution to medicine from a uniquely Latin American - and specifically Brazilian - perspective.
Part II, Question B
After the coup d'etat that would establish General Augusto Pinochet with control over Chile, the new regime executed and jailed many of its opponents. They also limited the human rights of its denizens and carried out numerous assassinations abroad. At least six concentration camps for enemies of the state were established. All political parties were...
The country was then reorganized in to thirteen different regions. A major program of liberalization was established by the new regime, which included privatization of industries. At this point, many foreign multinational companies were able to return to Chile and resume doing business. The main industry of the country - copper mining - remained in the hands of the government, however. In the early 1980s, the country's exchange rate was fixed by the government, which led to a boom in imports and a major blow to domestic industrial production. This resulted in a major economic crisis, during the course of which Chileans tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the regime. As a result of this, restrictions on the flow of capital in and out of the country were enforced. The economy began to slowly recover. Throughout the 1980s, a focus on the development of Information Technology would help the country out of a bureaucratic mess that had previously characterized life there. It made the functioning of public administration and politics a lot more effective. In 1988, it was decided that the Military Junta would suggest a single candidate to lead the country that the voters could either accept or reject. Pinochet was the candidate, and he was rejected by over fifty percent of the voting population.
Latin American History What were the main external and internal threats facing the Spanish Empire in the Americas from the 16th -19th centuries? The Spanish Empire, by virtue of the timing of the discovery and placement of colonies in the New World, was the first global empire. Spain, however, was very dependent upon the resources it could export in order to battle England and France for hegemony on the seas and
Latin American History For the first two generations of Latin America's radicals, liberals and democrats, the legacy of the colonial past was a terrible burden that their countries had to overcome in order to achieve progress and social and economic development. That legacy included absolutism, arbitrary rule, aristocracy, feudalism, slavery, oppression of the indigenous peoples, lack of public education and the overwhelming power of the Catholic Church, backed by the state.
Latin American Critical Book Review Civantos, Christina. Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. Orientalism was a term coined by the postcolonial theorist Edward Said to describe the reduction of Middle Eastern or East Asian culture to a kind of exotic literary trope. Said discusses this development mainly in relation to European powers and their colonial possessions, but Christina
Latin America Revolutions Except for the glaring exception of Brazil, the Latin American revolutions established republics from Mexico to Argentina, although the new governments were never particularly liberal or democratic. They certainly did not grant equal citizenship to, much less social and economic equality, while women, slaves, servants, and indigenous peoples mostly remained under traditional patriarchal controls. Some revolutionaries like Jose Morelos in Mexico and Batista Campos in Brazil did demand
System of castas/Latin American History Among many contributions of Mexico to the present American culture few are considered more significant than the concept of Mestizaje referring to the racial and cultural and synthesis. Mexico came out to be a fusion of the old and new world, particularly after the Spanish invasion during 16th century. Ever since the inception of the conquest the interracial sexual unions among Indians, Europeans, Africans and Asians
Latin America: Political or Apolitical Forrest Colburn argues in his book, Latin America at the End of Politics that ideological conflicts between the conservative and liberal ideologies have lost their pull in Latin America and a new more apolitical consensus about government has emerged regionally. This work will analyze and evaluate Colburn's claims regarding the new ideology of Latin America. Specifically, the work will compare Colburn's theories with the case material