This week, Dawson discussed the tumultuous period between the 1960s and the 1990s experienced by the majority of Latin American countries, due to the violent conflicts between the state and revolutionary forces. The author calls attention to the fact that before the start of the period, democratic institutions such as free press and political opposition […]
This week, we covered the violent wave of terror that swept through Latin America during the late nineteenth-century. Despite this being a very sad and tragic period for Latin America, I was interested in learning why and how these events occurred. Anyways, these are my thoughts on the subject, and what I understood from the […]
This week, we covered the violent wave of terror that swept through Latin America during the late nineteenth-century. Despite this being a very sad and tragic period for Latin America, I was interested in learning why and how these events occurred. Anyways, these are my thoughts on the subject, and what I understood from the […]
The Terror For this week, I decided to watch a video of a conversation with Maxwell Cameron, a professor of Political Science, “Peru: Shining Path, Fujimori, and the Legacy of the Civil War.” Peru is a unique country that faced … Continue reading
This week we looked at Latin America in the late twentieth century and the political upheaval that took place in many nations. We focused specifically on the civil war within Peru. The war was really acts of terrorism perpetrated by both the state and a radical political group called The Shining Path. I found it […]
This week we looked at Latin America in the late twentieth century and the political upheaval that took place in many nations. We focused specifically on the civil war within Peru. The war was really acts of terrorism perpetrated by both the state and a radical political group called The Shining Path. I found it […]
It was refreshing last week to learn about a positive experience in Latin American history, but yet again, this week we return to violence and fear. The terror is a dramatic yet fitting title of this chapter, a chapter filled with revolutions and wars, murders and torture. This chapter was filled with a lot of […]
What fascinated me in this week’s material about the uprisings and conflict within Peru were the comparisons that I found I was able to draw between it and The Slaughterhouse that similarly illustrated the discord within Argentina. Although conflicts within both regions share similarities and have their own distinct differences, what stood out to me the […]
video by Camila Sol and Miles Zhang
video by Emily Townsend and Piero Castillo
