Video by Cynthia, Madeleine, and Simran
The readings this week gave me a sense of the evolution of the people or el Pueblo. As the chapter displayed, the people of tyrannical states started to take action as seen with Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and with Chile starting and maintaining a string the “No” campaign against the continuation of […]
Four years ago I went to Mexico for the first time. I was visiting my boyfriend’s family who lives in Guadalajara. A beautiful city that I immediately fell in love with. One day we were driving towards the area of Chapultepec when we came up to “La Glorieta de Los Niños Heroes.” An enormous roundaboutContinue reading “Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power”
With the recent elections in the United States, I felt like this week’s lecture was a little more relatable, especially in terms of the 1988 Chile plebiscite. Although we’re not living in a dictatorship like Pinochet’s in Chile, I think we can see some similarities between the “No” campaign and the campaigns that were heldContinue reading “Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power”
In a different blog post I talked about the role of a wife who is married to a politician, and in this blog post I want to talk about children. I first want to focus on the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo story. This is truly a horrific story. I cannot even begin to […]
This week I will be focusing on the “Madres de Plaza de Mayo” video and the “Revolutionary Women’s Law” document. Dressed conservatively and with white headscarves, the mothers of the disappeared look the part of traditional, Christian mothers. As explained in the lecture, they are appealing to the family values supposedly upheld by the regime.Continue reading “Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power”
This week was a heavily packed one with lots of things to think about. Here’s a couple points I found…
Through this week’s reading and videos, it was very powerful to see how las madres de plaza de mayo used…
Alec Dawson on human rights after the Cold War (podcast)
