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... conquest El Dorado Muiscas Carib Intermediate Area ...

... submission that was followed by settlement, but a much longer phase that shaped the interactions between the cold highlands of the Andes and the hot lowlands of the inter-Andean river valleys throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. conquest El Dorado Muiscas Carib Intermediate Area ...

... This chapter explores how “development” increasingly means “free trade” and resource extraction via transnational corporations. In Guatemala the 1996 peace accords accompanied new regulations encouraging exploitation of “natural resources,” unleashing a rush for the new El Dorado. In 2005...

... expressing Europeans’ appreciation for foodstuffs previously unknown to them, as well as descriptions of “El Dorado,” the fact that slaves mined gold, and the uses of coca leaf among indigenous people. For the national period, material outlines land tenure among coffee planters, chronicles the banana workers...

... stage of military submission that was followed by settlement, but a much longer phase that shaped the interactions between the cold highlands of the Andes and the hot lowlands of the inter-Andean river valleys throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. conquest El Dorado Muiscas Carib...

... for the new El Dorado. In 2005 a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make...