Genealogy

Last updated 26 Sep 11

Latin American Law

US (ethnic) genealogy …

US Immigration 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990Europe 99 496 1,597 2,453 2,065 2,272 4,735 3,555 8,056 4,322 2,463 348 621 1,326 1,123 800 762 1,512Asia 0 0 0 42 65 124 70 75 324 247 112 17 37 153 428 1,588 2,738 3,273Canada 2 14 42 59 154 384 393 3 179 742 925 109 172 378 413 170 157 225Mexico 5 7 3 3 2 5 2 1 50 219 459 22 61 300 454 640 1,656 4,161

Caribbean 4 12 14 11 9 14 29 33 108 123 75 16 50 123 470 741 872 1,098Central America 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 17 16 6 22 45 101 135 468 828South America 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 17 42 42 8 22 92 258 296 462 649Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 8 6 2 7 14 29 81 177 283Oceania 0 0 0 0 0 11 13 4 13 13 9 2 15 13 25 41 45 52

All countries 143 599 1,713 2,598 2,315 2,812 5,247 3,688 8,795 5,736 4,107 528 1,035 2,515 3,322 4,493 7,338 12,093

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Latin Americancolonization, geography, history …

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Latin American timeline …

Dates for timeline?Trevor Ostbye

How strong has been Catholic Church in Latin America? King vs poe? After independence? Trevor Ostbye / Keith Orgel

Miscegenation common in hierarchical Latin America, but illegal the egalitarian United States TO / KO

How has Brazil handled influx of immigrants? US retirees? Same-Sex spouses? Keith Orgel

Juan Vicente Gomez (1857-1935)

Caudillos had power but lacked legitimacy, while jurists had legitimacy but lacked power

Law-reality mismatch

 

the gap between legal principles and social reality

Why did North America (the US) and Latin America turn out so differently?

 

Latin America North America

Colonized Colonized

Marginalized Natives

Wiped out Natives

Mostly Republican form of govt

Republican form of govt

Peonage Slavery

Plenty of natural resources

Plenty of natural resources

Civil Wars Civil war

Industrialization Industrialization 

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Jorge Luis Borges(1899-1986)

A key failure of many Latin American legal systems is seen in the faces of the millions of impoverished Latin American citizens that have been wholly abandoned, even persecuted, by their governments and laws.

Miguel Schor, CONSTITUTIONALISM THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

OF LATIN AMERICA (2006)

The US wealth gap and “War on Terror” make this country seem more Latin American.

“Laziness and complacency are leading attributes of Iberian culture ….

“Catholicism harbors a remarkable tolerance of, and perhaps even a tacit preference for, corruption and backwardness ….

“Catholicism is hostile to technological advancement and rapid social change ….

Lawrence Harrison, The Pan-American Dream (1997)

… la América es ingobernable para nosotros, el que sirve una revolución ara en el mar, la única cosa que se puede hacer en América es emigrar [1830] “America is ungovernable. Those who serve the revolution plow the sea. All one can do is emigrate.”

Simon Bolivar(1783-1830)

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Percy Fawcett