PPT-Challenges in Latin America

for Implementing a Biorisk Management Agenda Leila Macedo PhD wwwanbioorgbr wwwanbiojovemorgbr BWC Green Cross Meeting Geneva Dec 2015 Founded in 1999 The Global Biosafety Network. By the late 1400s Spanish explorers arrived in the Americas.. In 1519 a Spanish army led by Cortez landed in Mexico in search of gold and riches.. With 600 soldiers he conquered the Aztecs in 2 years with superior weapons and horses.. Juan Carlos Moreno . Brid. . Deputy. Director . ECLAC - . Mexico. . . JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY,. New Delhi, . January. 2012. Global growth has slowed sharply after the recovery from the crisis. Robert Devlin and Graciela . Moguillanski. Comment by Carlos Alvarez. OECD Development Centre. Why industrial policy in Latin America?. Latin America has experienced high rates of growth but,. Dr. Chris Busey. Assistant Professor of Middle Level & Social Studies Education. Texas State University. Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Agenda. Critical Thinking Through Maps. Analyzing Music for Afro-Latin Themes. Chapter 20. Latin American Background. Peoples of Latin America. Peninsulares. - . Spanish-born whites (highest class). Creole. - colonial-born whites (minority). Mestizo. - mixed European and Indigenous descent (majority) . Dr . Camillia. . Cowling. 1940s recordings of Brazilian slave songs by Stanley . Stein. No tempo do . cativeiro. Aturava. . muito. . desaforo. Levantava. de . manha. . cedo. Com . cara. . limpa. Recap from the CIA . Factbook. Data Chart. Why do you think the countries of Latin America are not as well off as the U.S.?. Recap from the CIA . Factbook. Data Chart. Why do you think the countries of Latin America are not as well off as the U.S.?. Cold War Period. TODAY’s OBJECTIVES:. Explain the political context in Latin America after WWII . Explain . how the Cold War affected . Latin America. Following . WWII – the political grouping into three “worlds”:. Iran Rodrigues, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida . iranmr@ufl.edu. . Overview. Democracy and Justice in Latin America. Political. institutions and Government. Brief Political and Economic history. Revolution and Reaction into the 21. st. Century . By: Roman Gonzalez, . Clark . Lurot. and . Veronica . Pasamante. . Overview. Latin America not as involved w/ WWII . Cold war  new revolutionary motives. In Latin America, most of the countries are quite ____.. They are what we would called ____ nations because they are still mainly agricultural based and do not have a great deal of money per person, or ____ income.. WRITERS AND . ARTISTS. WHERE ARE WE?. Week 1: Introduction. . Modern Latin America. , . chs. . 1-2. Week 2: Dimensions of History. Modern Latin America. , . chs. . 3 and 5 and website, Primary Documents 37, 39. Mexico. Central America. Caribbean Islands. South America. Why do we call it . Latin. America?. We call it LATIN America because most of the European countries that colonized this region spoke Spanish or Portuguese. Both of these languages are derived (or come from) the ancient Latin language. Thus we call this region Latin America.. SS6G4 A-B-C. SS6G1. The student will locate selected features of Latin America and the Caribbean.. . a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map:. . Amazon River. , . Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Mountains, .