The last few weeks in this course have demonstrated the extremities of violent activity and oppression in Latin America. As I discussed in last weeks topic and illustrated by Rita in the video, the power of the vote is extremely important, especially in a region such as Latin America where politics are unpredictable. (I doubt […]
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The last few weeks in this course have demonstrated the extremities of violent activity and oppression in Latin America. As I discussed in last weeks topic and illustrated by Rita in the video, the power of the vote is extremely important, especially in a region such as Latin America where politics are unpredictable. (I doubt […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Dirty War, murder, Power
This week’s lecture is also the main subject my groups video project, so there have been several main aspects that we’ve looked at together that I found to be particularly interesting. The first one which I found to be really compelling was history of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. The story […]
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This week’s lecture is also the main subject my groups video project, so there have been several main aspects that we’ve looked at together that I found to be particularly interesting. The first one which I found to be really compelling was history of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. The story […]
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As the course draws to a close, it has become evident that the Latin American reality, despite a lot of beauty, is one that has consistently been categorized by violence, repression and inequality. The last few weeks have felt particularly depressing, probably because we are looking at the not so distant past. Yet, although this […]
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I am well aware that nothing ever stays the same. Neither you, nor I will remain exactly as we are in this very moment until the day we die. This is the nature of life, and so it is accepted. This leads me to wonder why many find it difficult to understand that, like people,… Continue reading Seeking Change →
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Speaking Truth to Power For this week, I decided to watch a video of a conversation with Rita de Grandis, a UBC professor from Hispanic Studies, focusing on the Argentine military regime and the protest known as ‘Mothers of the … Continue reading →
Week 12: This week we saw how Latin American countries continued to be failed societies. The drug phenomenon in Latin America is interesting because of the realism it embodies, it does not matter if it is the state or a guerrilla, the drug market corrupted everyone. On the other side, this week we read […]
This week one of the things that I would like to talk about is the Argentine regime of the 1970s and 1980s, where there were widespread protests due to the disappearance of various individuals as a result of their perceived dissidence against the state’s authoritarian government. What intrigued me about this was the prominent involvement […]
As the course draws to a close, it has become evident that the Latin American reality, despite a lot of beauty, is one that has consistently been categorized by violence, repression and inequality. The last few weeks have felt particularly depressing, probably because we are looking at the not so distant past. Yet, although this […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Argentina, Dirty War, menem, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, TRC
