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The Shining Path and Peruvian Terrorism – Gordon H. McCormick The article “The Shining Path and Peruvian Terrorism” by Gordon H. McCormick explains Sendero Luminoso’s (Shining Path) origin, leadership, organizing concepts, and style of operation. According to McCormick, Sendero Luminoso … Continue reading → read full post >>

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, infamous for being the most powerful man in the drug trade, kicked off the Drug War in the early 1980’s when he started trafficking cocaine from Colombia by plane to Miami, Florida. But his rise to power and wealth started before that time and even before his involvement with cocaine – … Continue reading The Beginnings of Pablo Escobar and the Drug Wars → read full post >>

“Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company,” offers a great run-down of the United Fruit Company’s origins till its fall, which took place from the 1870s to the 1970s. The article beings with the construction of the railroad in Costa Rica in 1871, led by 23 year-old Minor Keith from Brooklyn. With mass amounts of determination, […] read full post >>

The segment “Walt Disney’s Latino Cartoon Characters” within the larger text of Pop Culture Latin America!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, written by Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison, gives more insight to Walt Disney’s perception of Latin America and what exactly he wanted to accomplish. Hollywood’s depiction of Latin American identity relied heavily on the cartoon […] read full post >>

Two sources that I found were “Haiti’s Agonies and Exhalations” by Ramsey Clark and “Why Brazil was Different: The Context of Independence” written by Kenneth R. Maxwell, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Both articles talk about the reasons by which their respective countries went about abolishing slavery. William Ramsey Clark […] read full post >>

Two sources that I found were “Haiti’s Agonies and Exhalations” by Ramsey Clark and “Why Brazil was Different: The Context of Independence” written by Kenneth R. Maxwell, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Both articles talk about the reasons by which their respective countries went about abolishing slavery. William Ramsey Clark […] read full post >>

“Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company,” offers a great run-down of the United Fruit Company’s origins till its fall, which took place from the 1870s to the 1970s. The article beings with the construction of the railroad in Costa Rica in 1871, led by 23 year-old Minor Keith from Brooklyn. With mass amounts of determination, […] read full post >>

The segment “Walt Disney’s Latino Cartoon Characters” within the larger text of Pop Culture Latin America!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, written by Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison, gives more insight to Walt Disney’s perception of Latin America and what exactly he wanted to accomplish. Hollywood’s depiction of Latin American identity relied heavily on the cartoon […] read full post >>

This week’s topic “The Terror” gives insight into the rise of Latin America’s left wing guerilla groups. These groups were organized usually in opposition to governments’ right wing, free market approaches. Neoliberal and capitalist ideals in Latin America were not … Continue reading → read full post >>

This week’s topic “The Terror” gives insight into the rise of Latin America’s left wing guerilla groups. These groups were organized usually in opposition to governments’ right wing, free market approaches. Neoliberal and capitalist ideals in Latin America were not … Continue reading → read full post >>