Examining the levels of respect currently held for Indigenous people globally, we have to remain conscientious of the methods in which we interact and pay respect to the cultures of the people’s who’s land we reside on. In Latin America this is truly e…
Examining the levels of respect currently held for Indigenous people globally, we have to remain conscientious of the methods in which we interact and pay respect to the cultures of the people’s who’s land we reside on. In Latin America this is truly e…
I find the part talking about the banana business by the UFCO in this chapter very interesting. It talks about how the banana business came in contact with the government of Guatemalan. The president of Guatemalan, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman allowed the UFCO to dominate the country’s banana business which in return, for the country’s economic…
The US is sometimes thought of as a big bully and this is especially true when looking at the intervention…
This week’s readings look at the United States influence within Latin America and the effects that is has on the people living within the region. The U.S. has a long history of imperialism that is often overlooked because the ideas it imposes, such as democracy and capitalism, are widely seen as positive. One cannot think… Continue reading Week Nine – Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire
I was aware of the extent of American influence over Latin American countries (especially in Central America and northern South America) but never really thought about the collaboration that existed to develop vaccines and treatment of tropical diseases. I found American and Latin American scientific collaboration really interesting particularly because the vaccines they developed were […]
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“Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company,” offers a great run-down of the United Fruit Company’s origins till its fall, which took place from the 1870s to the 1970s. The article beings with the construction of the railroad in Costa Rica in 1871, led by 23 year-old Minor Keith from Brooklyn. With mass amounts of determination, […]
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The segment “Walt Disney’s Latino Cartoon Characters” within the larger text of Pop Culture Latin America!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, written by Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison, gives more insight to Walt Disney’s perception of Latin America and what exactly he wanted to accomplish. Hollywood’s depiction of Latin American identity relied heavily on the cartoon […]
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“Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company,” offers a great run-down of the United Fruit Company’s origins till its fall, which took place from the 1870s to the 1970s. The article beings with the construction of the railroad in Costa Rica in 1871, led by 23 year-old Minor Keith from Brooklyn. With mass amounts of determination, […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Banana, Guatemala, Minor Keith, UFCO
The segment “Walt Disney’s Latino Cartoon Characters” within the larger text of Pop Culture Latin America!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, written by Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison, gives more insight to Walt Disney’s perception of Latin America and what exactly he wanted to accomplish. Hollywood’s depiction of Latin American identity relied heavily on the cartoon […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with America, cartoon, coercion, commerce, Disney
