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This weeks readings focused on the brutal conflicts in late 20th century Latin America sometimes reffered to as “dirty wars”, “guerilla wars”, or even “the terror”. The amount of deaths that occured in these conflicts is so vast that even the estimated numbers are likely nowhere close to the true numbers. The different slang names […] read full post >>

This weeks readings focused on the brutal conflicts in late 20th century Latin America sometimes reffered to as “dirty wars”, “guerilla wars”, or even “the terror”. The amount of deaths that occured in these conflicts is so vast that even the estimated numbers are likely nowhere close to the true numbers. The different slang names […] read full post >>

This week is probably going to be my favorite week for what we are researching and learning. The most background I have on this topic is through movies that have been produced representing areas of Latin America during “dirty wars.” In a summer camp at Quest University, we made research using movies as our tool […] read full post >>

This week is probably going to be my favorite week for what we are researching and learning. The most background I have on this topic is through movies that have been produced representing areas of Latin America during “dirty wars.” In a summer camp at Quest University, we made research using movies as our tool […] read full post >>

Dugdale-Pointon, TDP. (3 March 2002), Peninsular War (1807-14), http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_peninsular.html The first research site I used is this website called “History of war” where it introduces the peninsular war between 1807 and 1814. This is relevant to the topic because even though this war did not directly take place in Latin american territory we know that […] read full post >>

Dugdale-Pointon, TDP. (3 March 2002), Peninsular War (1807-14), http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_peninsular.html The first research site I used is this website called “History of war” where it introduces the peninsular war between 1807 and 1814. This is relevant to the topic because even though this war did not directly take place in Latin american territory we know that […] read full post >>

From these week readings, I just realised that people from Peru in those times used to have so many problems such as corruption, poverty and violence and because of that is that people had lots of politicians who were very corrupt and authoritarian like Fujimori. It is true that Fujimori was a true leader because […] read full post >>

The texts this week covered the conflicts that occurred within Latin American during the late 1900s. The main topic was the “dirty wars” or wars that were fought without uniform identification. Dawson describes this time as one of the bloodiest and cruelest since the establishment of independence. A normal civil war would have caused less […] read full post >>

From these week readings, I just realised that people from Peru in those times used to have so many problems such as corruption, poverty and violence and because of that is that people had lots of politicians who were very corrupt and authoritarian like Fujimori. It is true that Fujimori was a true leader because […] read full post >>

This week focused on the period from the 1960s-90s in LA known as “The Terror”. Characterized by “dirty wars” that divided populations and resulted in high death counts, it’s clear why this period was given its nickname. One of the most interesting parts of the chapter to me was the role of students, especially university […] read full post >>