... about artists along with their works. This "portal" deals with modern artists. This will be an excellent opportunity to understand contemporary Latin American artists and what is going on in South America. Cesar Menedez was born in Sansonate, El Salvador in 1954. According to the Latino ... the culture where it is present. The variations in Christianity are clear. According to one gallery "This trickster - satirist from Guadalajara often begins with classical Mexican forms, themes and motifs, and then corrupts them, so to speak, by bombarding them with foreign elements." Considering Alej...

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In 1959 Cuba was changed forever. That was the year of Fidel Castro's revolution. A revolution that many Cubans believed would surely falter. Sadly, they were terribly mistaken. Two years after the revolution began, a communist regime was set in place. The new government began confiscating businesses, bank accounts and assets. ... the lifelong tension of never completely belonging to a particular culture, community, or country. Neither entirely Cuban like his parents, nor totally acculturated to American life like his two children, Firmat calls himself a member of the "one-and-a-half generat...

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... by raising prices in Cuba on nearly everything. The Cubans hated them. This is one of the first factors that really made Cubans think about a revolution. The Cuban monopolies were abolished in 1817. In the early 1800's, the slave trade was coming to a screeching halt. There were several factors that ... white, 152,838 free blacks, and 436,495 slaves. The last slave ship sailed to Cuba in 1882. With the full support of the U.S., Cuba begins to seek for independence in 1823. John Quincy Adams formally gives the policy of the U.S in relation to Cuba, "These islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico) .....

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... be governor, who governed from 1511-1524. The Spanish were in search of gold and although Cuba did not have as much as other Latin American countries, it did have some. The Spaniards used a type of labor called encomienda to mine the gold. Encomienda was a tribute institution where the ... who was, "a brash young representative of middle-class students and intellectuals- (Burns, 276). Castro preached nationalism, socialism, and anti-imperialism. During the revolution, Castro was considered a hero even though he never had any intentions of sharing his power. He spoke of the changes that ...

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