This week, I was very entertained with the readings as I never would have imagine reading about the effects of the banana market. Thinking about it, I never realized how much banana is available for consumption today in america. Since bananas are only grown in warm climat, it is almost miraculous that they are available […]
This week, I was very entertained with the readings as I never would have imagine reading about the effects of the banana market. Thinking about it, I never realized how much banana is available for consumption today in america. Since bananas are only grown in warm climat, it is almost miraculous that they are available […]
For this week’s material, I would like to express my ideas regarding raw material and particularly mining in South America. South America is one of the most rich and resourceful regions of the world. Since the invasion of South America by Europeans and particularly Spanish government, they were always eager to find precious metals in […]
For this week’s material, I would like to express my ideas regarding raw material and particularly mining in South America. South America is one of the most rich and resourceful regions of the world. Since the invasion of South America by Europeans and particularly Spanish government, they were always eager to find precious metals in […]
After reading this week’s prescribed reading and watching a few videos I feel even less capable of commenting on the content contained within them. As a self-professed news hound, my rather limited experience of the world is filled with the narrative provided by one side of a story; most often, an American bias (I use […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with American, El Salvador, Manufactured Consent, Noam Chomsky, Romero, USA
What I found the most interesting this week was how Arbenz went about changing the way the United Fruit Company had control over Guatemala, mostly through the Agrarian Reform Law, “Plan 900.” The UFCO, which in 1952 cultivated only 139,000 acres of its 3 million acres of property in the country, lost 234,000 acres as […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Arbenz, commerce coercion and America's empire, Disney, Guatemala, red scare
Whilst we had previously looked at America’s involvement and intervention in Latin America in a more political sense, this week’s lecture focused more on the cultural and economic aspects of their presence. I couldn’t help but try to find the similarities with European colonization that had taken place in continental Africa, yet immediately, from the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with american influence, deceit, disguise, economic globalisation, Panama Canal
Whilst we had previously looked at America’s involvement and intervention in Latin America in a more political sense, this week’s lecture focused more on the cultural and economic aspects of their presence. I couldn’t help but try to find the similarities with European colonization that had taken place in continental Africa, yet immediately, from the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with american influence, deceit, disguise, economic globalisation, Panama Canal
This week’s reading and videos were quite interesting in considering the impact of American Empire, and the waves with which we still feel today. One particularly aspect I wanted to look at was the position of figures like Augusto Sandino and Jacobo Arbenz. Arbenz is, in many ways, a typical image of the tragic revolutionary. […]
Firstly, I laughed at the inclusion of the line, “white man that makes the chicken,” included by Dawson in reference to Colonel Sanders. Alright next… This chapter goes on to recognize the influence in which the United States played on constructing Latin America. If a country is on the good side of the USA, it …
