In Dawson’s reading this week, he asks questions about Latin America’s dirty wars. Specifically, from where do we draw the causes? He offers two dominant perspectives of those who try to answer it: These conflicts came were products of the … Continue reading →
Video by Mannat Advani, Ximena Kuzma Mongrut, Silas Latchem, Kito Romero, and Carolina Rueda
This week’s lecture topic focuses mainly on the violence that erupted within Latin America during the 1960s, through to the 80s. One of the things I found most interesting after reading about this period, is the level of blurriness that was clearly evident in politics and society at that time. Whilst it is easier to […]
This week’s lecture topic focuses mainly on the violence that erupted within Latin America during the 1960s, through to the 80s. One of the things I found most interesting after reading about this period, is the level of blurriness that was clearly evident in politics and society at that time. Whilst it is easier to […]
One of the most interesting aspects of this weeks reading/video was the notion of “terrors” being a conflict between a terror state and a terrorist group. These conditions galvanized one another, with state military groups acting in a brutal and repressive manner due to the percieved threat of the terror group. This threat could find […]
Group: The Export Boom as Modernity Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in Porfirian Mexico Author: Natalia Priego Priego, Natalia. (2008). Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in porfirian Mexico. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 15(2), 473-485. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702008000200016 Natalia Priego begins by … Continue reading →
After reading Dawson’s chapter on The Terror, a phrase I just recently became acquainted with springs to mind, que desmadre! This lesson leaves me stunned, shaking my head in shock and awe, and yet again, eternally grateful for being fortuitous enough to live the peaceful, democratic, and free life of a Canadian citizen. Part of […]
A new world order emerges from the atrocities of World War Two. One dominated by nation states, with inviolable sovereignty (ideas of “humanitarian intervention” will wait until the 90s, with the end of the Cold War), and decorated with a humanist ambition embodied by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the newly established United Nations in 1948. Latin Americans would, however, not feel the protection of this declaration. Nation-states would wage violence against the people in their territories, untouchable in terms of the legalized legitimation of state violence….read more
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. […]
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. […]
