There are approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States of America presently. Mexicans are the largest group; however they are followed by immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador (GHS), a region known as the Northern Triangle. Current immigration from the region of GHS prevails. One of the reasons is an ongoing 2014 American immigration crisis, related to the migration of unaccompanied minor's. The Northern Triangle is considered to be one of the poorest in the region, with the high levels of crime and murder rates, which is likely to be caused by numerous street gangs and drug cartels. The first wave of migration was caused by civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador in the eighties. There was another wave after 1998 caused by several natural disasters which swept through the region. The newcomers widened the numbers of undocumented immigrants in the USA. President Trump plans to deport most of the undocumented immigrants and he wants to prevent other migrants from coming with the construction of the border wall with Mexico. The immigrants live in the USA ten years or longer on average, some of them have families and kids who are American citizens. In contrast to the decision of the previous administration, they would not avoid the deportation. The current...

The goal of this master's thesis was to focus on the presence of utopia in three works written by the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos), Explosion in a Cathedral (El siglo de las luces) and The Kingdom of this World (El reino de este mundo). It has been defined the characteristics of utopia as a literary genre, which have been subsequently applied to the novels mentioned above. The study devoted to the novel The Lost Steps was the most detailed one. Attention was also paid to writer's perceptions of Latin America through "marvelous real".

This diploma thesis aims to emphasize the role of translation as a transcultural process in interaction of native and European culture and subsequent formation of a new, Latin American culture. The thesis investigates a role of interpreters during first expeditions and the conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empire, but focuses mainly on activity of missionaries who came to the New World to Christianize the native population. They decided to prefer Christianization to Hispanicization and started to study native languages. They wrote grammars, lexicons and religious writings in multilingual versions, translated many works into native languages, and studied and described the native culture, thus preserving it at the same time. This thesis takes also the ethical point of view on their activities: on the one hand, missionaries were the initiators of a multicultural dialogue; on the other hand, their interest in the Indians often only served the puspose of conquering them more easily.

Tato práce zkoumá vliv kulturních a historických faktorů na současnou zahraničně - politickou situaci ve státech Latinské Ameriky. Jejím cílem je dosáhnout zjištění, jakým způsobem právě kulturní a historické faktory, prvky a fenomény ovlivňují současnou politickou situaci v tomto regionu tím, že působí na společenský vývoj. Práce vychází z výzkumu Geerta Hofstedeho, jeho kulturních dimenzí a indexů, jejichž důsledky se snaží interpretovat a zijšťuje, jak se projevují ve společnosti a jaký mají dále vliv na politickou situaci v těchto konkrétních oblastech: (1) Vliv kultury na politickou situaci a postavení demokracie v zemích Latinské Ameriky s hlubším zaměřením na situaci ve Venezuele, (2)Vliv feminismu a postavení žen v politice Latinské Ameriky, (3)Vzájemné mezinárodně - politické vztahy Evropy a Latinské Ameriky, (4)Integrace v Latinské Americe a (5) Vztah Latinské Ameriky ke Spojeným státům americkým. Dochází k závěru, že byly zjištěny významné souvislosti mezi působením kulturních a historických determinantů na politickou situaci v zemích Latinské Ameriky.

This graduation theses is concerned with the economic development of the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean and economic relations of the Czech republic with these latinoamerican countries, especially trade and business relatins with Chile, Argentina, Brasil and Mexico. The purpose of the gradution theses was to analyse and mutual compare the progress of trade and business relations of these four selected countries and the possibility of czech enterprises to succeed on trade market of these countries.

The goal of the thesis "The EU-MERCOSUR: specific position of Argentina?" is the analysis of relations between the EU and MERCOSUR. The first part of the thesis deals with the characteristics of the selected territory. The second part of the thesis elaborates the relations between the EU and MERCOSUR. It includes historical development of cooperation, law basis of relations and business exchange. The crucial part of this chapter focuses on development of negotiation of inter-regional association agreement and its benefits for both parties. The thesis elaborates current progress of the negotiation especially in the context of the upcoming May 2010 EU and Latin America summit, where the association agreement could be signed. The agreement, however, will probably not include all the originally planned areas. The third part of the thesis analyzes the role of Argentina in MERCOSUR and relations of the EU and Argentina. The first hypothesis, claiming that Argentina is more oriented towards inter-regional MERCOSUR trade than the other member states, was not proved. The second hypothesis, claiming that signing the association agreement with EU will be very important for Argentina due to its strong ties to the European continent, was proved. The question, what the benefits for Argentina would be, if the Association Agreements would be signed without the chapter concerning the liberalization of the Agricultural products trade, still remains.

This master thesis deals with the theme of microfinance as a modern form of development aid in the world and analyzes the microfinance sector in Latin America, with a sharper focus on country Mexico. The work is divided into four chapters, which tries to answer two predetermined hypotheses. The first chapter is devoted to the question of poverty and the definition of microfinance and microfinance institutions. The second chapter focuses on microfinance as an investment opportunity for investor and describes the typical recipient of microloans. Another section is specifically focused on the analysis of the microfinance sector in LA and Mexico from year 2007 to 2012. At the end of the work are presented selected MFI in Mexico: the MFI FINCA and MFI Pro Mujer.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the change in response of Latin American governments to the economic crisis and thus the change in the character of protectionist measures applied. How do the means of the protection of domestic market change? How does the financial globalization reflect in the Latin American protectionism? What are the further perspectives of the development of Latin American countries? The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter examines the forms of protectionism in the reaction to economic crisis of the 20th century. Firstly, it presents Latin America as a traditionally protectionist region in the period of the import substitution industrialization, secondly it focuses on governments' reactions to the cyclic crises of the 80s and 90s that were caused by the liberalization of the capital accounts and high sensitivity of Latin American economies to the sudden stop on financial markets. The second chapter is devoted to the current global economic crisis. It analyses the means of trade and financial protectionism. Simultaneously, it compares the protectionist measures used to the ones employed in previous periods. The final part of the thesis explores further perspectives of Latin American regionalism and improved macroeconomic stability of Latin American economies.

This thesis deals with consumer behavior of a certain segment in tourism. The selected segment are Argentines and this thesis describes their consumer specifics together with analysis of external factors that enter into the buying decision process. There is also indicated their relationship to Europe destination and the Czech Republic and overview of marketing activities of CzechTourism agency on the market. The goal is to approach this market to Czech entities focusing on tourism.

The main goal of this thesis is to evaluate and compare the efficiency of cultural and creative industries in Latin America and Venezuela in particular, hence its growing potential. The introductory part refers to the geographic and socio-economic definition of Venezuela, on which the work is more focused. The following part is a quick overview of the theory of cultural and creative industries, so that this concept could be subsequently adapted to the Latin American region. The next section is devoted to selected examples of countries and projects that significantly transformed the socio-cultural environment of the country. The second half of the thesis focuses on the cultural and creative industries in Venezuela. The various categories of the sector and cultural institutions that are dedicated to them or shielded are specified. The last two chapters of practical part focus on the current situation in the phenomenon of cultural and creative industries and events, which can currently change the whole functioning of the Venezuelan state.