10. What did Spain and Portugal do to get people for labor in the new colonies after so many native people died?

11. Latin American citizens face some problems because of illegal drug trade in their countries. What might they do to escape the organized crime, violence, and corrupt police?

1. After the Spanish and the Portuguese started settling in the New World, they spread diseases, diseases that killed the majority of the indigenous populations. This put these two countries and their interests in a very bad position as they already had established large plantations, but they lacked labor force for them.

Portugal though discovered a new way how to solve the problem. During their explorations, trade, and contacts in Africa, the Portuguese saw that they can buy enslaved Africans from the stronger tribes in Africa. They started doing this, and they got labor force, while the African tribes got goods or weapons for the slaves. The word quickly spread around and the Spanish started doing the same. Both countries bought and moved millions of people from Africa into the New World as a labor force for their plantations.

2. In order to escape the corruption, violence, drug lords, criminal, most of the people from Latin America are trying to migrate. Not all have the opportunity to do so, but the ones that can usually don't think twice about it. The migration is mostly focused towards the USA, and in lesser proportion to Canada, where these people try to get better life, better opportunities, and have their human rights respected.