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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."
World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC
Maquiladora
Squatter settlement, Tijuana
MERCOSUR (1991)
DR-CAFTA