Extractions: THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Special Collections: Latin Americans, Hispanics, Latinos [Including people of all the Americas south of the United States, of the Caribbean, and of the U.S. and Canada of Latin American heritage.] Although many excellent resources are certainly available in Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages of the region, I cannot honestly evaluate them due to my limitations in those languages. Regrettably, all links point only to English language Web pages. Bilingual lovers of biography are invited to become contributing editors in any non-English language. If you want to volunteer to help develop this site, please inquire The Untold Story of the Alamo's Early History The Amazon Throne: The Orleans-Braganza of Brazil
Biographies Of Notable African Americans Read the biographies of notable African americans, and find out how they contributed and changed American History. people. Reconstruction. Riots. Slave Narratives. Slavery. Underground RR. Athletes. Inventors. Music/Entertainers. Writers. Black Celebrations. Caribbean/latin http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blbiographies.htm
THE INFORMAL ECONOMY IN LATIN AMERICA Things to Consider Before Leaving Daily Life in the U.S. notable American Characteristics The early European settlers in America lived on the frontier, often very distant from their nearest neighbors. can be confusing to people from other countries, as Europe and latin America, you will seldom see americans silently taking http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n1-8.html
Extractions: P eruvian writer José María Arguedas once wrote that we Latin Americans are people rooted in ancient cultures: we have unique histories and indelible characteristics. I would say that, among those characteristics, one of the most remarkable is that by which our nations convulse themselves in revolution from time to time. Contemporary Peru has experienced two such revolutions. One that failed, which is the one attempted by the Shining Path, the Maoist terrorist group that began its insurrection in 1980; and another one that succeeded, which is the revolution of the informal entrepreneurs who work outside the law in every city in the country. Thus, if we had to conceptually summarize the history of Peru in the last 15 years, I would say that it is the history of those two revolutions: the history of the communist revolution carried out by the Shining Path and the history of the informal revolution carried out by the popular entrepreneurs. The history of a revolution that failed militarily and politically, and the history of a revolution that has surely become one of the most impressive successes of our time.
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Extractions: African-American Pamphlet Collection Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress NY Public Library's Schomburg Center presents another outstanding online collection. Complete texts of about 20 biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs from the period are available here. Highly recommended.
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Extractions: Davies Home Page Countries Famous People Learning Spanish Culture ... Translation Canton Public Library: Countries A-Z http://www.cantonpl.org/youth/country/index.html CIA World Factbook: Country Listings - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/indexgeo.html Country Library - http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/ Latin American Network Information Center http://lanic.utexas.edu/ Library of Congress: Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Lonely Planet - http://www.lonelyplanet.com Yahooligans: Countries http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/ Return to top A Hotlist on Famous Hispanics http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listfamoushpa.html http://www.biography.com/ Explorers of the World http://www.bham.wednet.edu/explore.htm Famous Hispanics in the World and History http://coloquio.com/famosos/ - http://www.buffalostate.edu/~spanish/famous.htm http://gomexico.about.com/travel/gomexico/cs/famouspeople/ 4000 Years of Women in Science http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/4000WS.html
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Social And Economic Crises Stagger Latin Americans A lot of people will not settle for less And although latin americans share widespreaddissatisfaction with their elected There are notable exceptions, however http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/articles/ftaa/calher021102.htm
Extractions: The protests are getting bigger, the violence more bloody and the demands for change more adamant than ever. Governments and political structures are under fire across Latin America, and politicians are running scared. A longtime dream of a prosperous and economically stable Latin America has all but disappeared as social upheaval spreads on a massive scale rarely witnessed in the hemisphere. The sense of anger and frustration being expressed in the streets has reached dangerous levels, political analysts across the region agree. Latin Americans are making clear that they will no longer tolerate the insecurity, corruption and economic mismanagement that seem to have accompanied the region's two-decade transformation from authoritarian rule to democracy. Much of that transformation was driven by pressure from Washington, and the United States is increasingly being blamed for the failure of new democracies and economic models to deliver what Latin Americans feel they were promised, observers interviewed around the region said. "I believe there is a serious underassessment by the government in Washington of the extent of the Latin American problem," said Benjamin Angel Bogado, a Harvard-trained political scientist in Paraguay.
Notable Quotables -- 04/16/1990 The remarks seem designed to psychologically prepare Cuba's 10 million people, whogenerally are much better off economically than most latin americans, for a http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/nq/1988 - 1990/nq19900416.html
Extractions: "Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany's eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies, or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall."
Notable Quotables -- 04/17/1989 of the regime say Cubans have better health care than most latin americans. Reporter Paula respect for the lives, not only of its own people, but people http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/nq/1988 - 1990/nq19890417.html
Extractions: "The Soviets have spent billions of dollars keeping Fidel Castro supplied....The equipment, the best the Soviet Union can supply....Fidel Castro still believes in the Mao adage that power comes from the barrel of a gun. And his island bristles with some of the most modern, such as these advanced MiG 23s."
Extractions: The spread of disease is judged the top global problem in more countries than any other international threat, in part because worry about AIDS and other illnesses is so overwhelming in developing nations, especially in Africa. Fear of religious and ethnic violence ranks second, because of strong worries about global and societal divisions in both the West and in several Muslim countries. Nuclear weapons run a close third in public concern. The publics of China, South Korea and many in the former Soviet Bloc put more emphasis on global environmental threats than do people elsewhere. Even so, the survey finds yawning gaps in perceptions dividing North America and Western Europe from the rest of the world. Americans and Canadians judge their lives better than do people in the major nations of Western Europe. But that gap is minimal when the publics of the West are contrasted with people in other parts of the world. This survey question was not permitted in China.
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Extractions: News Bulletin Mission Statement The Latin American Public Health Council is a voluntary assembly of advocates, professionals, and community members that seeks to develop an agenda for eliminating health disparities and improving the health status of Latin Americans in Massachusetts. Why Now? The Federal Government's Healthy People 2010, America's health agenda for this decade, has two overarching goals: 1) to increase the quality and number of years of healthy life, and 2) to eliminate disparities in health status among the diverse groups that inhabit the Nation. Compelling evidence that race and ethnicity correlate with persistent, and often increasing, health disparities among populations demands the Commonwealth's attention. Indeed, despite notable progress in the overall health of the Commonwealth, there are continuing disparities in the burden of illness and death experienced by Latin Americans, American Indians, African Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders compared to the population as a whole. Achieving the goal of eliminating health disparities will require a major commitment to identify and address the underlying causes of higher levels of disease and disability in racial and ethnic minority communities. These include poverty, lack of access to quality health services, and environmental hazards in homes and neighborhoods, among other things.
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Extractions: You can't judge a book by its cover, but a nice cover can certainly catch your eye in the bookstore. That was the case with Beisbol - Latin Americans and the Grand Old Game by Michael M. Oleksak and Mary Adams Oleksak. It has a very attractive jacket design, photos of Jose Canseco and Roberto Clemente on top of a map of the Caribbean. After picking up the book and flipping through it for a while, I plunked down $14.95 and took it home. The authors approach baseball in Latin America from a historical point of view, following the spread of baseball from Cuba to the rest of the nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America. In a bang-bang presentation they tell as how the "National Pastime" became a pastime in many nations. What I found interesting about this section of the book was that a bit of history was covered. In my education provided by the United States, the only times South of the Rio Grande is mentioned are when we invaded Mexico, dug a canal, and lost a battleship in Cuba. Although the treatment wasn't very deep, it still opened windows that had been closed to me. I wish that there had been more, but this is a baseball book, not a history text. After a short bit describing what happened when major league teams barnstormed in Cuba, pre-World War II Latin stars were presented. One of them had light enough skin to pass as white an played in the majors. He was Dolf Luque. A good short biography of Pride of Havana follows. While Luque won almost 200 games in the majors, most of the talent produced never saw the bigs. Most were trapped behind the walls of segregation. Several biographies of notable Caribbean Negro Leaguers are given, along with a short bit on the close relationship between Negro Leagues and the Caribbean Winter Leagues. At one point two players are mentioned as being the only players to play both in the pre-Robinson big leagues and the Negro Leagues. This just isn't true, there were nearly a dozen similar instances. It is my hope that this reflects a lack of knowledge of the Negro Leagues on the part of the authors rather than a similar gap in their study of Latin American baseball.
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Extractions: Skip Navigation University Library North Bay Regional Collection Notable People Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo - 1808-1890 Photograph courtesy of the California Heritage Collection, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley "If he was not actually the founder of California's diversity, Vallejo was certainly one of it's chief architects." Capsule Biography July 7, 1808 (or July 5, 1807). The eighth of thirteen children, Mariano was born to Maria Antonio Lugo and Ignacio Vallejo in Monterey, the provincial capitol of Alta (Upper) California. His father, a leather jacket soldier, escorted Junipero Serra to San Francisco in 1776 and later worked as an engineer on irrigation projects. 1818. When the pirate, Bouchard, sacked Monterey, Mariano fled inland with his mother and siblings. His father and older brother remained behind to defend the capitol. Governor Sola mentored the young Vallejo, providing him with a role model for solid leadership, liberalism, and sophistication. He was tutored in English, French, and Latin by the Englishman, William Hartnell and worked as Hartnell's clerk and bookkeeper. 1822 - 1826. Vallejo served as personal secretary to Governor Arguello; entered military service as a cadet at Monterey; and became a member of the territorial legislature.
Extractions: GLOBAL PROGRAMME TO REGULATE AND COORDINATE FOREIGN RESIDENTS' AFFAIRS AND IMMIGRATION IN SPAIN (II. IMMIGRATION IN SPAIN: EVOLUTION AND PERSPECTIVES) II. IMMIGRATION IN SPAIN: EVOLUTION AND PERSPECTIVES. Spain has indeed become a host country for immigration, although it is true that settlement figures are lower in comparison with the number of immigrants in other European Union countries.
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Extractions: Argentina Leads Latin American Dislike of USA According to investigations carried out by the PEW Research Center, dislike of the USA has risn in Latin American countries as well as in Middle Eastern nations. Around 73% of Argentineans expressed aversion to US foreign policy. These figures place them very close to Pakistan, where hate of America reaches 81%. The report states that "U.S. global influence is simultaneously embraced and rejected by the world. America is nearly universally admired for its technological achievements, and people in most countries say they enjoy American movies, music, and television programs. However, in general, the spread of U.S. ideas and customs is disliked by majorities in almost every country included in this survey. This sentiment is even prevalent in friendly nations, such as Canada (54%) and Britain (50%), and even more so in countries where America is broadly disliked." Latin Americans present a very mixed picture. Mexicans, Hondurans, and Guatemalans, in general, do not share the same kind of hate for America that people in South America do. These positive assessments are notable given the large percentage of people in Mexico and the two Central American countries who say there have been times in the past year when they have been unable to afford food, health care, or clothing.
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