In this week’s reading, we pass over the revolution in Cuba to what was going on the the Latin American region between the years of 1960-2000. This time was noted but the extreme violence in that region of the world by parties that were both leftists and right-wing radicals. In the first part of this […]
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After watching Cameron Maxwell’s conversation, I noticed many similarities between Peru in the 1960s and Guatemala a few decades prior. In both cases, coups were organized in order to proceed with land reforms, redistributing land to the peasantry. In Guatemala, land reforms were enacted by President Arbenz to redistribute the unused land that had been […]
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This week’s reading is centered on the Cuban Revolution, its heroes, enemies, and the struggles that the Revolution brought to the Cuban people. The Cuban Revolution then is a symbol of endurance, a continuous fight against the imperialistic forces of the United States, an economic giant, an image which they used to justify their ‘lucha’ […]
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This week in our readings we were introduced to the horror stories that many of us know today as the “gorilla wars”. Coming straight from high school history we learn about the cold war, and the cuban missile crisis. this is what I immediately thought of. But I was not aware that this bloodshed was throughout […]
This week’s reading is centered on the Cuban Revolution, its heroes, enemies, and the struggles that the Revolution brought to the Cuban people. The Cuban Revolution then is a symbol of endurance, a continuous fight against the imperialistic forces of the United States, an economic giant, an image which they used to justify their ‘lucha’ […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Cuba, latin america, revolution
This week in our readings we were introduced to the horror stories that many of us know today as the “gorilla wars”. Coming straight from high school history we learn about the cold war, and the cuban missile crisis. this is what I immediately thought of. But I was not aware that this bloodshed was throughout […]
This week’s reading allowed me to understand a situation in Latin America, where civil wars and political and economical stabilities were present. Guerrilla groups organized and took violent actions to oppose right wing government. Peru, for instance, had the largest armed insurgents in Latin America and they differed from other groups in terms of finance. […]
This week’s reading allowed me to understand a situation in Latin America, where civil wars and political and economical stabilities were present. Guerrilla groups organized and took violent actions to oppose right wing government. Peru, for instance, had the largest armed insurgents in Latin America and they differed from other groups in terms of finance. […]
The power that the Shining Path had -and still has today- is chilling. I watched a video about the current conditions of the Shining Path in Peru. The video interviewed several peasants who produce cocaine for the Shining Path. It is interesting the way that they treat these peasants. The group treats them as close […]
The power that the Shining Path had -and still has today- is chilling. I watched a video about the current conditions of the Shining Path in Peru. The video interviewed several peasants who produce cocaine for the Shining Path. It is interesting the way that they treat these peasants. The group treats them as close […]
