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This week we are back to yet another crisis in Latin America, this time, in Peru. I was surprised at first to hear about the presence of Guerrillas in Peru since for some reason I always thought they were specific to Columbia (maybe it’s because Netflix movies and documentaries on Guerrillas were usually in Columbia). … Continue reading Week 11 read full post >>

week 11 I will like to start saying that what happened in Peru was not a civil war, it was terrorism. Terrorism caused by different fronts, the state, the military forces, the narcotraficants, Shinning Path and MRTA. Civilians were trapped in the middle of this conflict but it was not their war. The moment in […] read full post >>

Source 2 Lauren Villagran (2013). The Victims’ Movement in Mexico. Building Resilient Communities in Mexico: Civic Responses to Crime and Violence, San Diego. This source is an excerpt from a book by Lauren Villagran that focuses on how important the public activist groups will be in finding the solution to the drug war in Latin America. […] read full post >>

Source 2 Lauren Villagran (2013). The Victims’ Movement in Mexico. Building Resilient Communities in Mexico: Civic Responses to Crime and Violence, San Diego. This source is an excerpt from a book by Lauren Villagran that focuses on how important the public activist groups will be in finding the solution to the drug war in Latin America. […] read full post >>

Fujimori’s 1992  Autogolpe, is a really interesting case of de-democratization. It seems that he suspended the constitution  in order to amass power in one swift sweep. Or i guess it is more accurate to say that he dissolved the other branches of government in order to concentrate power in the executive.  What’s very interesting about […] read full post >>

Corse, Theron E. Projecting Peron: The Constructed Image of Juan Peron, 1945-1949, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1995.   Max Weber describes three ‘pure’ types of legitimate authority: rational, traditional and charismatic. His account of ‘charismatic authority’ outlines its relation to specific and exceptional sanctity, heroism and exceptional character of an individual grounded in a complete devotion out of enthusiasm, despair or hope–– the crux of this legitimacy lies in a leader’s perception by his followers. Charisma is an intimate component of ‘populism;’ as such, its dialectic opposition to rationality and routine grounds...read more read full post >>

The political landscape of modern-day Latin America is often conceived of as a network of unfair, corrupt, impractical systems that only serve to further support those in high-ranking, wealthy positions. This very nature of Latin American politics is far from novel, as is illustrated by Frederic Hicks’ article on the persistence of caudillismo in modern-day… Continue reading Caudillismo – Research Assignment → read full post >>

The political landscape of modern-day Latin America is often conceived of as a network of unfair, corrupt, impractical systems that only serve to further support those in high-ranking, wealthy positions. This very nature of Latin American politics is far from novel, as is illustrated by Frederic Hicks’ article on the persistence of caudillismo in modern-day… Continue reading Caudillismo – Research Assignment → read full post >>

I have always been a strong proponent of great, positive social changes. I will gladly take any chance to help make the world a better place, especially for those who have often been considered the underdogs. Recently, however, it has become more apparent to me that this philosophy creates a naive belief about social reform… Continue reading Trauma of Peru → read full post >>

I have always been a strong proponent of great, positive social changes. I will gladly take any chance to help make the world a better place, especially for those who have often been considered the underdogs. Recently, however, it has become more apparent to me that this philosophy creates a naive belief about social reform… Continue reading Trauma of Peru → read full post >>