The topic of this week made me feel pretty nostalgic, especially after watching “Moro No Brasil”. Since I moved away from Brazil at such a young age, I’ve always felt more connected to my home when I listen to music. Thinking back on it, I’m so grateful that my parents tried their best to exposeContinue reading “Week 11: Music”
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This week was mainly focused on the terror in Peru and the rule of Alberto Fujimori. Alberto Fujimori’s approach as…
The content covered in this week’s lecture was very heartbreaking to listen and read about, to the point where I felt numb after completing all the material. Through the testimonios, we can begin to grasp what certain aspects of life were like, this is why the main focus of my blog for this week will beContinue reading “Week 11: The Terror”
This week’s readings all were about a time in Latin America that was so bloody and brutal. I wanted to focus on the one reading titled “A Day in the Trial of the Century” by Carolina Huamán Oyague. Carolina is a family member of one of the victims in the La Cantuta Massacre that happenedContinue reading “Week 11: The Terror”
I feel like this week’s material was sort of like a reality check. Latin American is repeatedly described as being…
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 […]
For this blog post I want to first talk about the “testimonio” that Dawson talks about in the section at the end titled “The Documents: Scenes from the War”. In a different class we had to define certain terms and one of them was “testimonio”; the group in charge of this term defined it as: […]
I found it deeply upsetting and infuriating to read Mario Vargas Llosa, “The Massacre,”. Among the many tragic elements of this case, two themes come into focus for me. Miscommunication and the involuntary martyrdom of the peasants. From what I understood, the dominant belief is that the massacre of the eight reporters by Uchuraccay happenedContinue reading “Week 11: The Terror”
As I write this blog post, pro-democracy protesters are taking to the streets in Peru amid a political crisis. Today,…
