Hello everyone and welcome back to my final blog! Unfortunately, everything fun always comes to an end and I am very sorry to announce that this blog post is my last one! But before saying good bye, let’s talk about fun stuff! After studying the chaotic past of Latin America, it is time to discussContinue reading “WEEK 12: FUTURE?”
Hello everyone and welcome back to a new post blog! I hope everyone is enjoying November and ready to jump into the finals! For this week’s post, it would be interesting talk about the theme of “Speaking truth to power” in the 1960s till the 1980s in Latin America. Indeed, this theme can be addressedContinue reading “WEEK 11: TRUTH? WHICH ONE ?”
Hi everyone and welcome back! For this week’s reflection I would like to draw your attention to one of the most violent era in the world in terms of societal uprising: the 1960s till the 1980s. As Dawson explains, lots of violent riots occurred more or less simultaneously around the world, to defend democratic valuesContinue reading “WEEK 11: Terror in Latin America”
Hello everyone! This week’s post is a little bit different from what I usually write because I am going to discuss the theme of “Speaking Truth to power”. My group and I are going to make a more complete video on this topic but you will find in this blog an illustration of it thanksContinue reading “WEEK 12: Latin American Motherhood in the 1970s”
Hey everyone and welcome back! This week was a little tough because our midterm! I hope it went well for everyone. This week I would like to talk about the USA-Latin America relationship over time and the common misinterpretation of Bolivar’s “Letter from Jamaica”. As we saw in the readings from this week and fromContinue reading “WEEK 9: The USA, a new colonizer?”
Hello everyone and welcome back! Honestly, I do not know about you but I’d really, really, really like Thanksgiving to last at least two weeks! Midterms season is here for real and I hope everyone is doing well! For this week, I would like to talk about the notion of “Revolution” in Latin America andContinue reading “Week 8: Once upon a time a cowboy and a heroic soldier”
Hello everyone and welcome back! I don’t know about you but I’m slowly drowning under work with the midterms coming… I wasn’t expecting that when I first came here! I’m not used to that in my home university… Anyway! I found this week’s lecture and readings super interesting because, for once, I was able toContinue reading “WEEK 7: Buenos Dia(z)!”
Hello everyone and welcome back! In case you are asking, yes, the Day of the Long Boat was super fun and my team almost won (we should have won…)! But unfortunately, this week is less fun because of… Midterms! Anyway, while listening to the lecture and reading the document, I tried to think about theContinue reading “WEEK 6: Rights? For who?”
Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying the lovely weather of Vancouver this week… I am already looking forward for summer! Talking about summer, while in the Northern hemisphere winter is coming, summer is showing up in Conception, Chile where one of my friends stays for her exchange year and she keeps telling how beautifulContinue reading “WEEK 4: SIMON SAYS…”
Hello everyone and welcome back to another post! I hope all of you are surviving the week, having fun, working out (come on… you know you have to do it), going out… Anyway, enough talking! For this week’s post, I would like to draw your attention on several points which I found quite interesting butContinue reading “You said Casta Paintings?”
