Classism: The Spanish Legacy in Latin America. Posted on 24. Jul, 2012 by Colin in colombia, latin america, peru. A major culture shock for gringos moving to Latin America is classism – “prejudice or discrimination based on social class.”. Wealth inequality is greater in Latin America than anywhere else in the world.

Latin American literature – The 20th century: Eventually the innovations of Modernismo became routine, and poets began to look elsewhere for ways to be original. The next important artistic movement in Latin America was the avant-garde, or the vanguardia, as it is known in Spanish. This movement reflected several European movements, …

Colonial Administration in Latin America. The first royal judicial body established in New Spain in 1527 was the audiencia of Mexico City. The audiencia consisted of four judges, who also held executive

Apr 18, 2018 · Telling that tale is the goal of “The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930,” a revealing and often romantic exhibition at the Americas Society on Park Avenue. It turns the clock back 100 years on six Latin American capitals: Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil’s capital from independence until 1960) …

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.The term originated in the Napoleon III French government in the mid-19th century as Amérique latine to consider French-speaking territories in …

Pentecostals are not Latin America’s only “evangélicos,” as Protestants are normally called in the region. The Protestant community also includes mainline churches such as Presbyterian, Lutheran and Anglican, which were established by European immigrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries

There’s an old joke about Miami: Latin Americans love to visit the city because it’s so close to the United States. A homeless man in Miami. Credit Surrender Ministries Then there’s the chestnut about Miami being the capital of Latin America. Or, Miami is Latin America where the phones work. And

Simón Bolívar: The Liberator. Simon Bolivar’s Background Simón José Antonio de la Santisima Triniman Bolívar was born on July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela.

History of Latin America, history of the region from the pre-Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.

Following the model of the U.S. and French revolutions, most of Latin America achieved its independence by 1825. Independence destroyed the old common market that existed under the Spanish Empire after the Bourbon Reforms and created an increased dependence on the financial investment provided by nations which had already begun …