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Walsh 5b

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has cultural uniformity because of the separation of the country

has difficulty developing a strong economy because of civil strife, and drugs

has the La Violencia which is the "drug wars"

has a site of pop that lives i west and in the north not along the pacific. Situation is oil.

The drug trade is doing bad because the cartels are having inter-fighting= slowed economic growth by wasting money to stop it

is in a state of insurgency

has FARClandia -which is the revolutionary armed forces

has the US as the counter offensive that provided assistance to them regarding drug wars

has the maracaibo lowlands which is the oil area that was undisireable but now is petroleum areas

has the llanos in the highlands that is the Orinoco basin(flood basin) which is a good area for farming

has Tierra templata which is important because of the iron ore there

Has oil but officials use it for themselves and not the population

Is in serious debt and had to devalue the currency because of officials using oil $

Has Hugo Chavez as the leader who rewrote the constitution and championed the poor and made social equality

Had territorial disputes with other latin countries and he supports dictator countries

Leader doesn't like US and obstructed u.s. Globalzation

Gained independence by Britan in 1966

Dived ethnically by Indians-50 and Africans -36

Divided culturally by Hindu - 37 and Christian- 58

Starting as agriculture now deals w gold then oil

Neighboring drug affected them by people hiding in their mountains

Has oil as its newest resource and will bring the country wealth

Gained independence by Dutch(Netherlands) in 1975

Started agricutural then aluminum ore then timber industry

Controversy on the timber industry is that high demand = deforestization

Has Sranan Togo as its common language

Has the Caricom as its trade agreement between the Guiannas

Considered and overseas department of France because it is a dependent of it. Like a colony

Has economy on minding for gold and space industry

Has the energy era putting pressure on the government because it needs oil but to get needs pipelines which affect the Amazon badly

Has 3 subregions of desert coast, Andean highlands, and the oriente

Has the coastal strip for the capitol city because it's a port and commercially productive.

Has the Quechua speakers( Incan language)

Has the Sierra region which is the last amerindian pop

Amazon affected Oriente by its where rubber production is

Has the coastal strip where the cattle and coffee industry and seafood Industry is.

Has Guayquil which is where main trade and ports are

Has exploration of oil in the Oriente and the Amazon and exploitation of foreign investors who took advantage

Has lake titicaca affecting the altiplanos as a water source and making the air warm

Has the potsy legendary- silver, copper and zinc it has

Greatest loss of economic is that it uses the Amerindians to mine

Has evo morales as the first amerindian president in 2005

Has two capitols of La Paz(headquarters) and Sucre (Supreme Court)

Has Santa Cruz development as as the wealthy estates differing from Andean west by them being mountains and no agriculture

Considers thoroughly bilingual because of its mixed ethnic pop

Has a huge Brazilian pop and is still loyal to Brazil

Teaches in Portugese and hangs Brazilian flag not their own

Has 1% of the pop controlling 75 % of land

Has cultural inequality

President Lugo used the Itaipu Dam to make $$

Triple frontier(land)

Between Paraguay Brazil and Argentina

Has regions of Pampas, Chaco, Patagonia, and Entre Rios.

Has the papas thriving because of the good land and agricultural and meat

Has 90% of the pop in cities 1/3 of which in. Buenos aires

Has a Spanish cultural imprint

Has political infighting and mismanagement of profits= economic failure

Has dictator Juan peron

Has the dirty wars-leader Taking power by force

Had the leader Nestor Kirchner who the pop liked them brought his wife Christina into powers and they don't like her

Foreign investors didn't want to invest here because leader didn't keep promised

Ha it's elongated geography assisting in development

The middle is important because it has the seat of government and agriculture

Has Atacama desert which is good because of ores and copper

Had economic reform

Leading export- winter vegetables and copper

Leading trade partner is China but used to be U.S.

Leading source of imports is Argentina

Had two earthquakes that slowed economic development

Cattle and sheep leading trade exports

Has widest economic gap

Punts del este is important because of tourism= brings in$

Government tried to improvs economy by making paper from forests but Argentina was against

In argument w Argentina because of the paper mills on the water=affect rio de la plata

Considered a future superpower

Went from military juntas to democracy

Sell more coffee than anywhere in the world

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was president here- increases productivity

5 in world for pop. And 9 in economy

Wealth slowed natural increase(birth and death)

Has a lot of African immigration- 13 mil

87 mil of pop are mix of euro and Afro

Most of pop is Roman Catholic

Has Bahia state- location of of majority of Afro immigrants

Has favelas (slums)

Has bolsa familia- subsidy program

Has the most arable land in world

Has steel petroleum and gasohol industries

Has the acu super port because of steel and iron

Has 26 states and one federal district

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