For this week’s post, I want to discuss two questions asked by Dawson in this week’s reading: “Why did so many people who were otherwise not well served by authoritarian and corrupt regimes side with the military during this era?” “Why did the call to a socialist revolution not gain more adherents in one of …
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This was a very wordy section this week. I found the entire concept rather hard to grasp – dirty and…
This topic is quite sensitive to me, as I believe it is for most people in our class. When I first think about it, the perpetrators don’t come to mind as fast as the people who suffered their actions. I grew up hearing (from one side of the family) of the friends, teachers, coworkers myContinue reading “Week 11: The Terror”
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This was a very wordy section this week. I found the entire concept rather hard to grasp – dirty and…
Fear seems to always conquer the narratives of Latin America history. As time goes by, the doctrine of terror or shock is the best policy to control and annihilate any expression or movement of discontent and change demands. The crisis of the region gave the opportunity to politicians that offer a different approach in theirContinue reading “Week 11 | Never Ending Terror”
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I think that this is the topic that I’ve struggled with the most, because of how complex it is. The Terror encompasses so many different conflicts that it was very had for me to keep track of what was happening where, and why. The conflicts were all related but somewhat disconnected from each other, so […]
I was really happy this week to see that we would be discussing the Cold War in Latin America. I think that the reason why by the 1980’s few of the countries mentioned had democratic governments was largely due to U.S. subversion in fear of communism. …
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I was really happy this week to see that we would be discussing the Cold War in Latin America. I think that the reason why by the 1980’s few of the countries mentioned had democratic governments was largely due to U.S. subversion in fear of communism. …
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In the opening paragraphs of Dawson’s ninth chapter, The Terror, a particular sentence struck a cord with me which continued to resonate deeply throughout the rest of the text; “This may allow us to tell stories with definitive heroes and villains, to satisfy our desire for moral clarity. What we risks is gaining that clarityContinue reading “Week 11: The Terror of Narrow Perspectives”
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This week’s focus is on Peru, specifically movements concerning peasant’s rights, freedom from repression, and institutional corruption in the 1980s. Focusing on the Prolonged People’s War of the Shining Path and administration of Alberto Fujimori, Peru experienced another wave of conflict later than other Latin American countries. Rather than the communist revolutions earlier in the […]
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