Latin America. Maya, Aztec and Inca Empires circa 1450 AD

Latin America

Maya, Aztec and Inca Empires circa 1450 AD

Maya (appx. 1000 BC-1450 AD)

Mayan ruins, Guatemala

Inca Empire

Machu Picchu

Incan Indians, Bolivia

Aztec Empire, 14th-16th centuries, AD

Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital)

Law of the Indies (San Antonio, TX)

Zocalo (“Plaza of the Constitution”, Mexico City

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Le Corbusier (1887-1965)

Corbusier’s “Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants” (1922)

Piloto Plan, Brazil

Brasilia

Brasilia

Brasilia

Plaza of the Three Powers

Amazon Highway

Amazon deforestation

Cubatao, Brazil

Curitiba, Brazil

Free Environmental UniversityBus stop

Patagonian shield

Glacial lake, Chile

penguin

Amazon rain forest

Lima, Peru

Periferico

Rio de Janeiro

Favelas, Rio

Hacienda, Peru

Chunchucmil Hacienda, Mexico

Slaves on a plantation, Brazil

Cattle ranch, Brazil

Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. This has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38% of deforestation from 1966-1975 to large scale cattle ranching. However, today the situation may be even worse. According to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), "Between 1990 and 2001 the percentage of Europe's processed meat imports that came from Brazil rose from 40 to 74 percent" and by 2003 "For the first time ever, the growth in Brazilian cattle production-80 percent

of which was in the Amazon-was largely export driven."

Copper mine, Peru

World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC

Maquiladora

Squatter settlement, Tijuana

MERCOSUR (1991)

DR-CAFTA