Latin America

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This paper explains that the North of America and the South of America are so vastly different in culture, language, people, ancestry and the very physical appearance of the people of that country. Latin America is made up of twenty republics, most of them originating from Iberia. The author points out that the gap between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' is one of the widest in the world; for example, in Brazil and Guatemala, the wealthiest ten percentage makes a huge fifty percentage of the entire national income, while the rest of the population possesses a mere ten percentage of the income. The paper relates that this disparity has been handed down over the ages, the rich have remained rich and the poor have remained poor; the consensus is that the foreign policy of the United States of America has not been helpful in bridging this vast gap.

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"It is an amazing fact that the lands of Latin America were undiscovered by the rest of the world up until the fifteenth century. When Christopher Columbus, a man of extremely humble origins crossed over the Atlantic Ocean to what was later known as the 'Americas', he actually landed at first in the Bahamas, and later went on to the Caribbean islands, thus discovering Cuba and Hispaniola, and also the coastlines of both Central as well as South America. (Christopher Columbus) Christopher Columbus managed to achieve what the Vikings of previous years had not managed to achieve, and this was the recognition of the New World, that was the term used to describe the various continents of North and South America and all its adjacent islands. This was a major development since the only known continents up to that time that were recognized by the Europeans were those of Europe, Asia, and Africa."

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