Archives for "January 2005":
Land Reform in an Age of Urbanism on January 5, 2005 in Latin America
First of all, while many want to make this an economic or social issue, it is really simply a very emotional and political issue, not an economic one. Land issues were important in Venezuela 50 years ago, when over half of the country's population was rural. Since then, Venezuela has seen the same migration to the urban centers seen in...
Notes from my Urban Society Class on January 5, 2005 in Latin America
Colonists began to populate urban centers with both locals and colonists from the metro-political powers. In order to do so, the colonists had to find a way to convince the indigenous that subordination was for their own good. Thus, a new ethical-moral system had to be imputed into the locals in order to grant the metro-political powers sufficient control over...
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