Men were worked so hard in the mines that few children were born. Columbus demanded a certain amount gold or cotton from each Taino over the age of 13. Those who failed to meet his demands had their hands cut off. Life was so deplorable that mothers killed their babies, and mass suicides were common.
3 S/2001/357 I. Introduction 1. By the statement of its President of 2 June 2000 (S/PRST/2000/20), the Security Council requested the Secretary-General to establish an expert panel on the
Art Fund or collectibles. In the current globalised art world, many professional investors and advisors have decided to use their expertise to attract third-party investors and set-up their own art fund in Luxembourg. The classic "buy and hold" strategies where the manager buys some pieces of art and keeps them long term. Some are involved ...
The stereotypical image of the ' tourist' is that of the Western man who travels to Thailand or the Philippines in order to engage in brief, highly commodified exchanges of for cash or kind with prostitute women or children (Enloe, 1989; Jeffreys, 1997).Because ' tourism' is taken to imply prostitute-use, and because prostitute-use is assumed to be a male practice, it is ...
A new, revised and expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic. This reader is the bestselling, most comprehensive selection of Che Guevara's writings, letters and speeches available in English. This volume covers Che's writings on the Cuban revolutionary war, the first years of the revolution in Cuba and his vision for Latin America and the Third World.
G20 countries are importing risk of modern slavery on a massive scale. Collectively, G20 countries are importing US$354 billion worth of at-risk products annually. This ranges from a minimum of US$739 million for Argentina, to a maximum of US$144 billion for the United States. While the strength of the supporting evidence of modern slavery in ...
Global assessments suggest that a substantial proportion of labour migrants ends up in situations of extreme exploitation, some of whom are identified as victims of human trafficking. Because large numbers of migrant workers fall into a "grey area" between trafficking (as defined by international and national law) and exploitative labour situations, there is good reason to explore the ...
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, August 1996. Case studies are based on authors' interviews. Names of those interviewed have been changed in all cases. Papers in this series: 1. Child Sexual Exploitation in Costa Rica 2. Child Prostitution and Tourism in Cuba 3. Child Prostitution and Tourism in the Dominican Republic 4.
Cuba in 1898 José M. Hernandez. In 1898 Cuba was a geopolitical aberration. Lying only 90 miles from the Florida keys, astride the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, it was separated from Spain by the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. Yet Cuba remained one of Spain's two colonies in the New World.
Introduction to Haiti Haiti is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola. It is the third largest Caribbean nation with a population of 10.4 million which makes it the most populous full-member state of the Caribbean community. Haiti is also the poorest country in the Americas as measured by the human ...
The Dominican Republic, a nation on the island of Hispaniola, is a part of the Greater Antilles island chain in the Caribbean Sea. The country, which ultimately claimed independence in July of 1924, occupies five-eighths of the aforementioned island, which it shares with the country of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, shared by two countries.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, colonizer, and navigator. He was born in the Republic of Genoa on October 31 1441, in what is today Northwestern Italy. Columbus made a total of four journeys voyage, where he sailed extensively around the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas and also to the mainland, to places such as Panama. He had intended to sail to Japan, but ended ...
Many gold mines are located near Santa Clara in central Cuba. Some of these mines date back to the early Spanish conquest. The San Jose is one of the larger mines in this district and produces free-milling gold in dirty quartz veins. To the east is the city of Gamaguey. There are several mines in this region including the Florencia Mine.
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In Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, they built grandiose cathedrals and extracted shipfuls of gold and silver, which English, French, and Dutch pirates were happy to seize. But precious metals weren't a sustainable export—the colonizers needed something that …
When he arrived in Cuba, Velásquez founded the island's first Spanish settlement at Baracoa. Meanwhile, reports from the Indians of Hispaniola reached Cuba. Hatuey, a Taíno chief, had escaped in canoes with about four-hundred men, women and children, to warn the Cubans about what to expect from the Spaniards.
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (/ b ə ˈ t iː s t ə /; Spanish: [fulˈxensjo βaˈtista i salˈdiβaɾ]; born Rubén Zaldívar, January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as …
1 Origin of the triumvirate page 4. 2 The consular elections of 60 BC page 6. 3 Opposition to Caesar's land bill page 8. 4 Caesar strikes back page 11. 5 Conclusion page 14. Introduction. The first triumvirate marked the fall of the Roman Republic. Power was now concent
Gradually the introduction of Africans were increasing, in the measure in that indigenous manpower went diminishing. There are news that toward 1555, about 700 black slaves already existed in Cuba, they were dedicated to all type of tasks, as the agricultural and domestic work, gold-bearing sands and the constructions, among other.
06 | Mining in Africa PROFILE 11th largest country in the world in terms of land area. Actively pursuing economic diversification away from oil and gas by encouraging domestic and foreign investment. Non-oil sectors, including mining and metal industry, have emerged as key drivers of growth in the last 10 years.
As Cuban professional baseball was shutting down after the Cuban Revolution in the late 1950s, Major League Baseball began ramping up scouting efforts in the Dominican Republic. Baseball had already been an important pastime and major sport in the Dominican Republic since its introduction in the 1880s. Today, the country is still a key market for the Major Leagues.
spread brutal exploitation and dehumanizing inequality around the world . Not surprisingly, Cuba has received remarkably small inflows of foreign investment, even taking into account the size of ...
Sun, , and Gold. : Kamala Kempadoo. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999 - Social Science - 356 pages. 2 Reviews. With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the trade and the …
The Spanish Empire between 1492 and 1892, expanded across most of Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and much of North America. In its conquest of the New World, the Spanish subdued and defeated the Inca civilization of Peru, the Aztecs of Central America, and the …
H.Res. 364, Urging the introduction and passage of a resolution on the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China at the 54th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights: H.Con.Res 145, Concerning the removal of Russian Armed Forces from Moldova
Cuba in 1898 José M. Hernandez. In 1898 Cuba was a geopolitical aberration. Lying only 90 miles from the Florida keys, astride the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, it was separated from Spain by the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. Yet Cuba remained one of Spain's two colonies in the New World.
Investors hoping to do business in Cuba face numerous problems/issues which include the resolution of U.S. properties confiscated by the Cuban government in the early 1960s; an arbitrary legal system controlled by the Communist Party and the military; widespread corruption; a value system that includes stealing from enterprises and working as little as possible; and … Exploitation of …
Dominican Republic History - SETTLERS. The new expedition of some 1000 people, bent on the acquisition of great wealth and determined to exploit the gold deposits in the Cibao River valley in the north, attempted to found a new coastal settlement, named after the Spanish queen, Isabella. Columbus continued his exploration of the Caribbean.
on the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola (the island that contains the modern-day countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Columbus and his men also met the native peoples of these islands, the Taino. By During the Renaissance, people became more interested in science. Europe suffered many wars in the 1400s and 1500s..
The First Declaration of Havana. INTRODUCTION The Declaration of Havana is the reply of the people of Cuba and of the exploited millions of Latin America to the Declaration of San José, signed on August 28, 1960 by the foreign ministers of the governments belonging to the Organization of American States which participated in the Seventh Conference of Consultation of Foreign Ministers, held at ...