This week we’re are discussing the role of Caudillos in the course of post-independence Latin America. I think a good place to start is with this quote from the Dawson text. “ They (caudillos) were figures who entered the vacuum of power left by the collapse of the Spanish colonial state and who offered hope […]
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For this week’s blog, I wanted to focus on Esteban Echerría’s “The Slaughterhouse” because of its depiction of caudillos and metaphors for the ways Latin American people behaved after their nations became independent. I really loved the tone and writing style that Echerría employs, and found myself very enthralled with the story and its gruesome … Continue reading WEEK 5 CAUDILLOS: The Slaughterhouse →
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The rise of the caudillos can be understood in the powerlessness of the average worker during the post-independence era. Pre-Independence, the interests of the ruling Creole elites were kept in check by the Spanish Colonial establishment. However, once these protections were stripped away, indigenous peoples, poor, working, or otherwise disenfranchised people had to look elsewhere for protection against […]
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After going through the lecture video for this week, I began to think about a phenomena that has struck me as becoming increasingly common, especially amongst professional young adults. Lately, I have found the belief, that one must network often and network well to gain what is necessary to increase one’s quality of life. This networking,… Continue reading Caudillos →
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I was not surprised to read that there was a lot of violence and conflict in post-independence Latin America, because…
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This week I was very intriguing because as we can see in the news and other outlets, liberalism continues to struggle to bloom successfully in Latin America. In my opinion, one of the main positives, but disadvantages in the case of Latin America, of liberalism is that it needs a strong sense of ‘self’, as […]
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This week I was very intriguing because as we can see in the news and other outlets, liberalism continues to struggle to bloom successfully in Latin America. In my opinion, one of the main positives, but disadvantages in the case of Latin America, of liberalism is that it needs a strong sense of ‘self’, as […]
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Caudillos: “figures who entered the vacuum of power left by the collapse of the Spanish colonial state and who offered hope for stability through the force of their will and their capacity to vanquish their enemies.” In this sense, the appeal of the strongmen makes sense: the individual leadership was a stark difference compared to […]
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I found several interesting things in the video this week. One in particular is I always thought that ‘liberalism’ and the fight between liberals and conservatives during independence and the years after was mostly economic liberalism. By which all liberals were trying to free the market in order for the criollos to make profits rather […]
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