Essay - Latin American History Part I Question as in Other Nations...

Latin American History

***** I Question

As in other nations around the world, economic development and social justice tend to go hand in hand in Latin America, as is evidenced by recent events in three countries.

With the recent transference of power ***** Cuba from Fidel C*****tro ***** his bro*****r Raúl, there are signs that restrictions that previously limited the freedom of Cubans under *****'s autocratic regime will be lifted. Cubans are now able to purchase such items as mobile phones, DVD players, and computers. It remains to be seen whether Raúl will manage to open up new economic possibilities for his country, which continues to struggle with poverty on a massive scale.

***** recent years, Brazil's Growth Accelerati***** Program has led to positive growth in the country's economy. Whereas a decade ago, the economic situation was a lot more delic*****te ***** contingent on the global market, today, the country seems nearly immune from fluctuations generated by the economic crisis in ***** United States. As one ***** the largest ***** in the ***** American world, it also has one of the most democratic forms ***** government.

In Argentina, rising inflation has been a major problem in recent *****. In the 1990s, ***** ***** currency - the peso - had been trad*****g at ***** one to ***** ***** the dollar. A ***** economic crisis h***** the country in the year 2001. The *****'s response to t***** problem has ***** to deprec*****e the peso - as a means of maintaining the competitiveness of the *****'s economy while simultaneously discouraging imports. *****s a result of this problem, infl*****tion continues to rise. At the same time, ***** country, like Brazil, is experiencing economic growth.

Part II, ***** A The Escola Tropicalista Bahiana began in the year 1865 when about a dozen doctors in northeastern Brazil began to meet in order to discuss pertinent medical issues of the era. *****t the meetings, the doctors would discuss not only their own significant cases, but flesh out ***** own plans for research and the latest advances in ***** science. This ***** to the formation of the Escola Tropicalista *****, ***** would come to signify one of the ***** successful scientific enterp*****s in 19th century Latin America. Every two weeks, ***** doctors ***** meet to speak about unusual cases they had come across, pertinent medical texts that had recently been published, the ***** advances in such emerging fields as microscopy ***** parasitology, and how all of *****se topics might be of particular interest to the Brazilian nation. The point of the ********** meetings was ***** generate original research that would aid the development of medicine in Brazil. While this may not sound controversial now, at ***** ***** it *****, as ***** scientists and doctors ***** typically attempt to conform to whatever had recently ***** discovered ***** Western Europe w*****hout trying to generate any of their ***** original contri*****ions to their *****. The ***** Tropicalista Bahiana, on the other hand, would attempt to merge tropical medicine with the latest