Download or read book Escape Al Caribe written by Leonardo Rodriguez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La emigración ilegal es un fenómeno que se ponde de manifiesto en la mayoría de los países del tercer mundo. Como es conocido por todos, Cuba es uno de los países desde donde salen cientos de emigrantes ilegales (llamados balseros) en busca del territorio estadounidense a través de las peligrosas aguas del Estrecho de la Florida y a través del extenso Mar Caribe. En el intento de lograr sus objetivos, fundamentalmente económicos y de libertad, muchos logran coronar, pero también muchos desaparecen de manera lamentable en las profundidades de los mares. En Escape al Caribe, su autor y protagonista en esta historia, es uno de los tantos cubanos que han utilizado el mar como vía de escape. Aquí se narra la peligrosa travesía que él ralizó, conjuntamente con once de sus compatriotas, cruzando el Mar Caribe en una precaria embarcación y luego atravesando los países centroamericanos hasta llegar a Estados Unidos, enfrentándose de manera desafiante a infinidades de peligros que solamente se presentan en situaciones como esta.
Download or read book Escape Al Caribe written by Leonardo Rodríguez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La emigracin ilegal es un fenmeno que se pone de manifiesto en la mayora de los pases del tercer mundo. Como es conocido por todos, Cuba es uno de los pases desde donde salen cientos de emigrantes ilegales (llamados balseros) en busca del territorio estadounidense a travs de las peligrosas aguas del Estrecho de la Florida y a travs del extenso Mar Caribe. En el intento de lograr sus objetivos, fundamentalmente econmicos y de libertad, muchos logran coronar, pero tambin muchos desaparecen de manera lamentable en las profundidades de los mares. En Escape al Caribe, su autor y protagonista en esta historia -Leonardo Rodrguez-, es uno de los tantos cubanos que han utilizado el mar como va de escape. Aqu se narra la peligrosa travesa que l realiz, conjuntamente con once de sus compatriotas, cruzando el Mar Caribe en una precaria embarcacin y luego atravesando los pases centroamericanos hasta llegar a Estados Unidos, enfrentndose de manera desafiante a infinidades de peligros que solamente se presentan en situaciones como esta.
Download or read book The Coming Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El movimiento abolicionista The Abolitionist Movement written by Lorijo Metz and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1900-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the Abolitionist Movement, including biographical information on some of the important men and women involved.
Download or read book North South University Research Partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Gustavo Gregorutti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines research productivity within schools in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and presents examples of various successful LAC North-South programs which have propelled university research in the region. Much of the scholarly work on North-South research to date has concentrated principally on joint publications and co-authorship bibliometrics. In this book, cases are explored within the context of study on international research collaborations to highlight the motivations, mechanics, limitations, and success factors involved in the North-South relationships and their resulting research output.
Download or read book Antonio Ben tez Rojo written by María Rita Corticelli and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.
Download or read book Explorer s Guide Dominican Republic written by Christopher P. Baker and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide from an expert on the region includes hundreds of lodging, dining, recreational, and cultural recommendations. With the same unerring compass that has come to define the Great Destinations guides, Baker reveals why the Dominican Republic is far and away the most popular destination in the Caribbean. From brilliant green mountains to pristine white-sand beaches, extraordinary restaurants to luxury resorts, the Dominican Republic is full of surprises. For instance, no other Caribbean isle can compare when it comes to bird- and wildlife-watching: the Dominican Republic teems with exotic birds and reptiles, many of which live nowhere else in the world. With this guide in hand you’ll learn where to book the best wildlife tours; where to go to explore the island’s ancient history; how to navigate rustic trails and Colonial city streets; where to find the best golfing, water sports, and nightlife—and so much more. As in all Great Destinations guides, there are more than 100 photographs and detailed maps—everything you need to make the most of your visit.
Download or read book Voices Out of Africa in Twentieth century Spanish Caribbean Literature written by Julia Cuervo Hewitt and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hewitt (Spanish and Portuguese, Pennsylvania State U.) explores the representation of Africa and "Afro-Caribbean-ness" in Spanish Caribbean literature of the 20th century. Her main argument "is that the literary representation of Africa and "Africanness," meaning practices, belief systems, music, art, myths, popular knowledge, in Spanish-speaking Caribbean societies, constructs a self-referential discourse in which Africa and African "things" shift to a Caribbean landscape as the site of the (M)Other." Or, in other words, these representations imaginatively rescue and simultaneously construct a "Caribbean cultural imaginary conceived as the Other within that associates Africa with a cultural womb." Among the texts she explores are Fernando Ortiz's interpretations of the "Black Carnival" in Cuba, the early Afro-Cuban poems of Alejo Carpentier, the Afro-Cuban stories of Lydia Cabrera, a number of literary representations of the figure of the runaway slave, and two works by Puerto Rican novelist Edgardo Rodiguez Julia.
Download or read book Boletin de Ciencias Marinas Del Golfo Y El Caribe written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Marianne Fay and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not have the infrastructure it needs, or deserves, given its income. Many argue that the solution is to spend more; by contrast, this report has one main message: Latin America can dramatically narrow its infrastructure service gap by spending efficiently on the right things. This report asks three questions: what should LAC countries’ goals be? How can these goals be achieved as cost-effectively as possible? And who should pay to reach these goals? In doing so, we drop the ‘infrastructure gap’ notion, favoring an approach built on identifying the ‘service gap’. Benchmarking Latin America in this way reveals clear strengths and weaknesses. Access to water and electricity is good, with the potential for the region’s electricity sector to drive competitive advantage; by contrast, transport and sanitation should be key focus areas for further development. The report also identifies and analyses some of the emerging challenges for the region—climate change, increased demand and urbanization—that will put increasing pressure on infrastructure and policy makers alike. Improving the region’s infrastructure performance in the context of tight fiscal space will require spending better on well identified priorities. Unlike most infrastructure diagnostics, this report argues that much of what is needed lies outside the infrastructure sector †“ in the form of broader government issues—from competition policy, to budgeting rules that no longer solely focus on controlling cash expenditures. We also find that traditional recommendations continue to apply regarding independent, well-performing regulators and better corporate governance, and highlight the critical importance of cost recovery where feasible and desirable, as the basis for future commercial finance of infrastructure services. Latin America has the means and potential to do better; and it can do so by spending more efficiently on the right things.
Download or read book Escape from Violence written by Aristide R. Zolberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the West. This concern reveals itself as an ambiguous mixture of heartfelt compassion for the plight of the unfortunates cast adrift and a diffuse fear that they will come "pouring in." In this comprehensive study, the authors examine the refugee flows originating in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and suggest how a better understanding of this phenomenon can be used by the international community to assist those in greatest need. Reviewing the history of refugee movements in the West, they show how their formation and the fate of endangered populations have also been shaped by the partisan objectives of receiving countries. They survey the kinds of social conflicts characteristic of different regions of the Third World and the ways refugees and refugee policy are made to serve broader political purposes.
Download or read book Siglo en Blanco written by Elsa Gelpí Baíz and published by University of Puerto Rico Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly documented and authoritative analysis of the second half of the 16th century reconstructing the complex socio-economic environment in which Puerto Rican society developed.
Download or read book Taxation and Inequality in Latin America written by Philip Fehling and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty. The book analyzes the relation of natural resource wealth, allocational politics and the limited role of taxation for redistribution, and progressive resource mobilization. By drawing on the political economy of tax regimes, the book considers the specific conditions of taxation in Latin America, which apply to a large part of the Global South and more than 100 countries specializing in the extraction and export of raw materials. This book will cover: taxation and the dominance of raw material export sectors; taxation and allocational politics; new perspectives on political economy and tax regimes. Scholars and advanced students of political economy, political science, development studies, and fiscal sociology will find several key issues in tax research from a novel angle. The book provides an analytical orientation that relates central questions of taxation to patterns of regional political economy, thereby opening up the debate with tax scholars from other world regions of the Global South.
Download or read book Charcoal Production an Opportunity for the Caribbean written by Edwin D. Maldonado and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ponte al dia para el examen de CSEC written by Shelley Martinez and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically for the latest CSEC Spanish syllabus by an author with over 37 years' experience teaching Spanish in the Caribbean. - Reflects Caribbean contexts in the reading material and includes specific Spanish cultural information in every lesson - Combines traditional exercises with modern ways to engage students, including opportunities to write their own compositions - Provides exam support with questions presented in the CXC format and unique guidance on how to do well in the exam and avoid common mistakes
Download or read book Conditional Freedom written by Thomas Mareite and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.
Download or read book Caribbean Modernist Architecture written by Gustavo Luis Moré and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art organised the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American countries, in collaboration with the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. The goal was to encourage scholarly, curatorial and broader educational awareness. Topics covered included regional and international legacies, preservation, environmental sustainability and urban planning, as they relate to modernist architectural history and contemporary practice. The presenters were leading architects and architectural historians from the region, and attendees included their colleagues as well as local and international university students, policy makers, civic leaders and developers from Jamaica, the surrounding Caribbean isalnds and the United States. This illustrated volume, co-published by MoMA and Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana (AAA), an architectural journal based in the Dominican Republic, presents the papers from this critical symposium in both English and Spanish, making them accessible to a broader public.
