Politics and Economics in Latin America - 1800s

The g everyplacenmental and economic business office in many countries in Latin American is directly incredibly similar to how it was hundreds of geezerhood ago. Government semiofficials manipulate laws and regulations and shout out their power to meliorate themselves without providing the citizens with a stable and thriving nation. This latest extortion of the system and lack of patriotism is what brought me to write about these cardinal documents. Since I grew up in Latin America, I scram always witnessed how people enrich themselves by becoming a policy-making representative and how the citizens do non react since thither is not a instinct of belonging to a nation. some(prenominal) of these documents highlight the problems that countries like Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela encountered with their political parties styles, and I strongly cerebrate that if this is not exposed Latin America will usurp the same mistakes that were made over 200 years ago.\nThe lo w document that will be reviewed, Bureaucratic Capitalism: Profiting from smudge, was written by two agents who were sent to the New orb to act like spies and testify the King about the putrescence that was winning place in Latin America. This report was mean to be presented to the King of Spain and his advisors in Europe to understand how their political representatives were handling all official orders and ingathering of tribute in Peru. The first point that the authors make for is that the corregidores, who were the local officials sent to Latin America to represent their monarchs, were taking advantage of the power that was delegated to them. These corregidores were profiting from the arrangement of tribute they were supposed to intrust the Indians per orders of the King. As stated on the first phrase of the document, Corregidores accustom many methods to enrich themselves at the expense of the Indians, and we shall start with the collection of tribute (88). The corr egidores were clearly not doing this collectio...