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Week Thirteen
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In the past two to three decades, there has been a general trend towards improvement in Latin America. Granted, there... read full post >>
Week 12 – Speaking Truth to Power
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When reading about the perils of Latin America, I sometimes sit back and think to myself, “how do we end this?” There are so many layers of trauma, corruption, and power imbalance that it seems an impossible struggle to fix. … Continue reading read full post >>
Week 13: Towards an Uncertain Future
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The first thing that I thought of when I started reading this chapter was the crack on the sidewalk outside of my grandmothers house, from the 8.1 magnitude Earthquake in Mexico City on September 19th, 1985. I may have not been alive at that point in time yet, but my parents, my grandparents and the …
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The first thing that I thought of when I started reading this chapter was the crack on the sidewalk outside of my grandmothers house, from the 8.1 magnitude Earthquake in Mexico City on September 19th, 1985. I may have not been alive at that point in time yet, but my parents, my grandparents and the …
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This week I focused on Max Cameron’s video, “The Left Turns.” Cameron, a professor of political science at UBC, took a more hopeful and uplifting look at Latin America than the previous weeks readings and videos. More specifically, he talked … Continue reading read full post >>
Week Thirteen
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This week I focused on Max Cameron’s video, “The Left Turns.” Cameron, a professor of political science at UBC, took a more hopeful and uplifting look at Latin America than the previous weeks readings and videos. More specifically, he talked … Continue reading read full post >>
Week 13- Towards an uncertain future
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I still cannot believe that we are already done with the semester. I have managed to learn so much about Latin America which makes me realise how most developing countries need for incongruence and stability changes. For this blog post I will try and touch on a few of the videos and lectures I had read:
This week’s lectures were based on the post effects of the dirty wars which happened in 1970. Most of Latin America if not all had been left in such a bad shape because of all the corruption that had taken place throughout the years not only by people living there at the time but even the political leaders that had taken advantage of Latin America by exploiting all its resources. Poor management, inflation and a huge amount of debt had been the result of what happened after the dirty war.
The 1985 earthquake also left Mexico in shambles. After doing my own research I realised the magnitude of this issue, and of the earthquake- it struck in the early morning of 19 September at with a magnitude of of 8.0. Not only did the event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people, it left the city completely crumbling. Miguel de la Madrid, was the former president of Mexico whose scoffed management of the earthquake that shattered Mexico City in 1985. He was starting off his reign but did not do a very good job at reviving the city. The people had lost all hope in the government of Mexico. De la Madrid took offers of assistance from the north and put his pride before necessity which is why a lot of Mexicans to date do not think he did a good job being a leader- because of the way he handled the situation and not acknowledged the earthquake by accepting foreign aid. 32 years later Mexico was hit with another earthquake- Pena Nieto was the present at the time, and again during his reign there was not much assistance and the government proved to be once again incapable of handling such situations.
My question for today: currently, would you agree/disagree that Mexico’s government is capable of handling such situations if natural disasters were ever to occur?
Week 13- Towards an uncertain future
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I still cannot believe that we are already done with the semester. I have managed to learn so much about Latin America which makes me realise how most developing countries need for incongruence and stability changes. For this blog post I will try and touch on a few of the videos and lectures I had read:
This week’s lectures were based on the post effects of the dirty wars which happened in 1970. Most of Latin America if not all had been left in such a bad shape because of all the corruption that had taken place throughout the years not only by people living there at the time but even the political leaders that had taken advantage of Latin America by exploiting all its resources. Poor management, inflation and a huge amount of debt had been the result of what happened after the dirty war.
The 1985 earthquake also left Mexico in shambles. After doing my own research I realised the magnitude of this issue, and of the earthquake- it struck in the early morning of 19 September at with a magnitude of of 8.0. Not only did the event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people, it left the city completely crumbling. Miguel de la Madrid, was the former president of Mexico whose scoffed management of the earthquake that shattered Mexico City in 1985. He was starting off his reign but did not do a very good job at reviving the city. The people had lost all hope in the government of Mexico. De la Madrid took offers of assistance from the north and put his pride before necessity which is why a lot of Mexicans to date do not think he did a good job being a leader- because of the way he handled the situation and not acknowledged the earthquake by accepting foreign aid. 32 years later Mexico was hit with another earthquake- Pena Nieto was the present at the time, and again during his reign there was not much assistance and the government proved to be once again incapable of handling such situations.
My question for today: currently, would you agree/disagree that Mexico’s government is capable of handling such situations if natural disasters were ever to occur?
Week 13 – Towards an Uncertain Future
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This week, the chapter talks about how the aftermath of the dirty wars in Latin America and the political cycle the majority of the countries went through. After the dirty wars, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, Latin American countries were for the most part in bad economic shape: poor economic management along with corruption at […] read full post >>
Week 13 – Towards an uncertain future
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And just like that, just in a flash, another term is over. I must say I loved how Dawson distributed the information in 3 subtopics; Exit, Voice and Loyalty. There is something about separating a sentence in that way that gives me goosebumps, anyways, back to the chapter. Nature will always be greater than ourselves, … Sigue leyendo Week 13 – Towards an uncertain future read full post >>
