Blogs

Violence Against Women in Mexico The report “Violence Against Women in Mexico” focuses on recent trends in three regions of the country (Baja California, Sinaloa and Veracruz). There are several accounts of the atrocities throughout the paper going into detail about the victim, the incident and similar cases. It will allow for a personal connection and accounts […] read full post >>

This week’s lecture titled “The Terror” was quite thought provoking and introduced students to the turmoil within Latin American countries between their military and left leaning guerrillas and parties. Personally for me, I kept going back to the mentions of violence and deaths as a result of what was occurring.  For this blog post, I […] read full post >>

COVID-19, the virus that took the world by storm, has had serious effects in nations across the globe and Latin America is no stranger to this. With its largest country, Brazil, suffering an inconceivable outcome of the pandemic, it’s difficult to see how Latin America has successfully managed its spread; especially as the media tendsContinue reading "Contrast in COVID-19 Response: Uruguay and Brazil" read full post >>

First Source  Jennifer Pribble begins her article, “Uruguay quietly beats coronavirus, distinguishing itself from its South American neighbors – yet again”, by citing the World Health Organization’s overview of Covid-19 in Uruguay. At the time of publishing (June 15th 2020), Uruguay’s population of 3.5 million had only 847 confirmed cases and 23 deaths (Pribble citingContinue reading "Contrast in COVID-19 Response: Uruguay and Brazil" read full post >>

This week’s material was personally very hard to digest. I am blessed that I’ve never experienced atrocities such as war, genocide, or any kind of life-threatening situation in my lifetime. Imagining the scene of the events written in the text or shown in the videos is horrifying enough, the horror and anxiety the Latin American […] read full post >>

The first source selected for the video project, on Week 13: Towards an Uncertain Future, is a scholarly article titled... read full post >>

I feel like this week’s material was sort of like a reality check.  Latin American is repeatedly described as being... read full post >>

From this week’s reading I selected The Interview of the Century, 1988 (excerpt) Whether the text is reliable in its claim of the mass’s power isn’t a given based off only the text itself. But it is also the case that Gonzalo’s call to violence did work for many “middle-class university students” and would continue […] read full post >>

The second source I chose to write about for this week’s writing assignment is “Casta Painting and the Characterization of Colonial Mexican Identities” by Natalia Caldas of the University of Western Ontario. In the second chapter, which is the one I will be mainly focusing on, Caldas’ focus is mainly on the español character inContinue reading "“Casta Painting and the Characterization of Colonial Mexican Identities” by Natalia Caldas" read full post >>

The first source I chose to write about is “Bartolomé de las Casas: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES”, written in 1542 and published in 1552, but more specifically, the abbreviated version written by Franklin W. Knight and Andrew Hurley. Now although my course is only excerpts of las Casas’ account ofContinue reading "Bartolomé de las Casas: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES" read full post >>