José Martí’s Nuestra América was and still is very influential in shaping thought through Latin America. There are several points and arguments that can and should be transferred to the present and sadly are not. One argument that he makes and maintains through the entire essay is the idea that in order for people to […]
This week we delved into how the established colonial societies of the America’s began to resist their imperial rule and gain independence. We discussed how the struggle for independence was both vastly different between nations in cause and methodology and at the same time very similar in that the value of wanting to be free […]
This weeks brings up the complexities of the idea of independence and how it is not as clear cut as…
This week’s topic, Independence, is a huge topic to tackle. Especially when we are covering the independence of such a huge geographical area that is Latin America. I found the narrative of José Martí incredibly beautiful and poetic; the way in which he describes the struggle of the people of the New World against the […]
video by Julian Heavyside and Michelle Pérez
video by Melissa Prado, Jorge Porter, Adrián González, Tabatha Marin, and Karen Poveda
video by Amy Main and Cennedi Mills
These past few weeks, we have been primarily focusing on the early stages of Latin America. For example, the landing of Christopher Columbus as well as the beginning of the colonial period. However this week, it seems that we have begun a more political chapter of Latin America. Personally, I’ve always found politics less interesting, […]
I was so impressed by this week’s reading. In The Letter form Jamaica by Simón Bolívar, he talked about Spanish misgovernment and the necessary of independence of South America. He insisted unified Latin America and republicanism, and it did cause the movement for freedom and independence. It seems he used simple words (in English translated […]
I found the speech by Hugo Chávez to be the most interesting of the the reading this week as it highlighted how many countries in Latin America struggled against the lingering grasp of colonialism. In his speech, he refers to the Simón Bolívar and the Letter from Jamaica (which was written a century ago at the time); though […]
