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I always love a week that talks about the role media plays. I know how important media is, but I don't think about it so consciously until I get to these readings. I interact with media so frequently that it's just a part of my daily life to check the ... read full post >>

I am very interested in the way that the media was used during the times of the War on Drugs or the disappearance of the children for the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo  or the Aguas Blancas Massacre,  which I think is something Dawson explores as well. To begin with, it is interesting that the documents […] read full post >>

I am very interested in the way that the media was used during the times of the War on Drugs or the disappearance of the children for the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo  or the Aguas Blancas Massacre,  which I think is something Dawson explores as well. To begin with, it is interesting that the documents […] read full post >>

Throughout this course we have seen the many faces of revolutionaries, those willing to put their lives on the line, unknowingly or not, to fight for change, to fight for those without voices and rights, and to fight for answers. If I think back to how popular the Caudillos were in eliciting support from their […] read full post >>

The source I used for my research was the book, ‘The Women of Colonial Latin America’ by Susan Migden Socolow. My research highlights the position of women in the old world, the pre-Columbian new world and the post-colonial new world. The position of men and women in every society is a social construct and is … Continue reading Women in Pre- and Post- Colonial Latin America (Short Research Assignment) → read full post >>

I thought that Dawson’s emphasis on the advent of radio being pivotal in Peronism to be on point. Without being able to broadcast her voice, Evita Peron would not have achieved the level of support she enjoyed. Interesting that she … Continue reading → read full post >>

I have always thought about the various era’s of life that we (Canadian public school students K-12) are taught in school and wonder what kind of era we are currently living in today. The Industrial Revolution, followed by two episodes of war stand are 3 time periods that we are taught extensively. But in the …

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I have always thought about the various era’s of life that we (Canadian public school students K-12) are taught in school and wonder what kind of era we are currently living in today. The Industrial Revolution, followed by two episodes of war stand are 3 time periods that we are taught extensively. But in the …

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For last week, I wrote about the question of who profited from the Terrors in Latin America of the late 20th century. This weeks reading brought me into a moment in which the economics of the War on Drugs were quite clear. The USA was sending huge amounts of military aid to countries or paramilitary […] read full post >>

As we get closer to the modern day in our learning on the politics of Latin America, it seems the issues seemingly become more complex. Perhaps it is the lack of temporal distance; these events are discussions are not clarified by historical distance. Also, as the polarizing and binarizing tendencies of cold war ‘camps’ dissolve, so our compartmentalizing of stakeholders becomes unstructured. Perhaps this dissolution leaves bare these political events, which can no longer be reduced to capitalist versus communist. As these structures lift, we can only wonder how much...read more read full post >>