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This week’s homework focuses on the influence that the United States had, both positively and negatively, on Latin America prior to 1959. Throughout the readings, I found many intersecting sections, one being the core periphery relationship between the United States and several countries within Central America and the Caribbean. Similar to cases in the past, […] read full post >>

This week’s homework focuses on the influence that the United States had, both positively and negatively, on Latin America prior to 1959. Throughout the readings, I found many intersecting sections, one being the core periphery relationship between the United States and several countries within Central America and the Caribbean. Similar to cases in the past, […] read full post >>

This week’s readings look at the United States influence within Latin America and the effects that is has on the people living within the region. In the majority of the documents read the average person of the Latin American countries views the United States influence in a negative light, stating the United States is exploiting […] read full post >>

This week’s readings look at the United States influence within Latin America and the effects that is has on the people living within the region. In the majority of the documents read the average person of the Latin American countries views the United States influence in a negative light, stating the United States is exploiting […] read full post >>

I believe that this weeks readings was easy to make a connection to, as even more so we can see the American Empire has been spread globally. I remember when I first heard about the extreme American intervention in Latin American affairs and being absolutely shocked. How were they allowed to do that and how […] read full post >>

This week’s reading starts off by claiming that the United States were violent oppressor and a threat to Latin America. At first, America did not consider themselves as imperialist, but as they acquired more lands through Manifesto destiny, Latin America started to view them as imperial aggression. Although America did not take territories in Latin […] read full post >>

The United States presence in Latin America is often represented in simple terms, as a violent oppressor or noble saviour. There are many ideas around this concept but it is up to us to uncover the truths behind them. There is a stigma that comes with being so powerful, and in the case of the […] read full post >>

I believe that this weeks readings was easy to make a connection to, as even more so we can see the American Empire has been spread globally. I remember when I first heard about the extreme American intervention in Latin American affairs and being absolutely shocked. How were they allowed to do that and how […] read full post >>

  This week’s readings and videos were particularly interesting to me. The “American Empire” that was constructed in Latin America was more subtle than those empires that had previously existed in the region, and existed through the use of different means. Nevertheless, it can be considered an empire in the sense that it was an […] read full post >>

This week’s reading starts off by claiming that the United States were violent oppressor and a threat to Latin America. At first, America did not consider themselves as imperialist, but as they acquired more lands through Manifesto destiny, Latin America started to view them as imperial aggression. Although America did not take territories in Latin […] read full post >>