History of Latin America - Current Issues
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| What is poverty? | a condition where people’s basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, etc) are not being met
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| About how many people live in chronic poverty in Latin America? | 20%
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| What are causes of poverty in Latin America? | lack of high-quality and high skilled jobs, lack of investment and access to education
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| What are 3 heavily trafficked drugs? | cocaine, marijuana, and heroin
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| What is a cartel? | groups which dominate the trade of a specific good or service or organized crime units
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| What are some ways that cartels bring drugs into the US? | jet airliners, eighteen-wheelers, submarines and large tunnels beneath the US-Mexican border
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| Why can't Mexico stop the cartels? | there is government corruption, intimidation, bribes, and collusion with the cartels
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| What is the US doing to stop the drug trade? | started targeting producers rather than users
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| How has illegal drug trade become a major part of the economy? | it gives money to small areas
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| What are some of the types of migration? | economic, social, political and environmental
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| What are some PUSH/PULL factors for Latinos moving to the US? | war, lack of economic opportunities, poverty, safety concerns, safer living conditions, more or better jobs, better healthcare & political stability
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| What are 3 patterns of migration? | Rural to Urban areas within the same country; Regional Migration between Latin American and Caribbean Countries; and Migration to Europe, Asia, and Anglo America
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| Currently, Latinos are the _________ group of minorities in the US. | largest
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| What is economic migration? | migration that occurs when another area appears to have more economic opportunities then where they are (jobs, poverty, drugs, etc.)
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| What is social migration? | migration that occurs when another area appears to have ‘happier’ or better quality of life (with friends/family) then what they have
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| What is political migration? | migration that occurs due a need to escape political persecution, imprisonment, or death
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| What is environmental migration? | migration that occurs as a result of natural disasters
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| What are people called that move due to political migration? | refugees
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| What is the most common type of migration? | Rural to Urban areas within the same country
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| What 3 countries are the centers of Latin American and Caribbean migration? | France, US and Japan
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| What is a negative affect of migration? | brain drain
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| What is brain drain? | caused when highly educated and specialized people leave their native country and relocate in a country that will better compensate them for their skills
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| What are remittances? | money that workers send back to support those they left behind
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| How does brain drain effect countries’ economics ? | it takes the educated and high earning people away from their native country
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| What is an economic benefit of migration? | remittances
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| How do remittances effect countries’ economics ? | they get money without having local jobs
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