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Week 9 – Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire

  This week we look at the growing US power and their relationship with Latin America. I would first like to share my thoughts on the “Manifesto” written by Agusto Sandino.  He addresses “Nicaraguans, Central Americans and the Indo-Hispanic race” in explaining or elaborating on the increasing US threat to Latin America.  He exclaims no […]

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Week 8 – Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age

This week we reviewed/ revisited the idea that Latin America is, as Alexander Dawson describes it, as being Gilded with modernity.  Modernity affects only parts of Latin America and ignores others. The Poet Ruben Dario This week I wanted to focus on the poem by Ruben Dario, called “To Rosevelt”.  I found this poem to […]

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Week 8 – Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age

This week we reviewed/ revisited the idea that Latin America is, as Alexander Dawson describes it, as being Gilded with modernity.  Modernity affects only parts of Latin America and ignores others. The Poet Ruben Dario This week I wanted to focus on the poem by Ruben Dario, called “To Rosevelt”.  I found this poem to […]

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Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity

This week we are looking at modernity and what that looks like in Latin America.  We will begin to look at economics and the introduction of technology and how they contribute to the integration of modernity. Look at our technology today, from the accessibility and growing necessity of the internet to our dependence on smartphones […]

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Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity

This week we are looking at modernity and what that looks like in Latin America.  We will begin to look at economics and the introduction of technology and how they contribute to the integration of modernity. Look at our technology today, from the accessibility and growing necessity of the internet to our dependence on smartphones […]

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Week 6- Citizenship and Rights

To recap the conclusions of last week’s readings, the Caudillo was the best governing system for post-colonial Latin America. This system kept the rich where they wanted to be, at the top with the ability to control laws and to decide if they would like to impose them.  The poor and marginalized inherit the new […]

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Week 6- Citizenship and Rights

To recap the conclusions of last week’s readings, the Caudillo was the best governing system for post-colonial Latin America. This system kept the rich where they wanted to be, at the top with the ability to control laws and to decide if they would like to impose them.  The poor and marginalized inherit the new […]

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Week 5- Caudillo and the National Guard

Last week we discussed how important political representation.  This reminded me of why it is so important to vote and use your voice to elect the representation you want. When you don’t vote you don’t have the opportunity to be represented when decisions are being made that will directly affect your way of living. Independence is […]

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Week 5- Caudillo and the National Guard

Last week we discussed how important political representation.  This reminded me of why it is so important to vote and use your voice to elect the representation you want. When you don’t vote you don’t have the opportunity to be represented when decisions are being made that will directly affect your way of living. Independence is […]

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Week 4- Independence

This week we looked at how history is told.  We talk about Simon Bolivar, Marti, Hugo Chavez, the Haitian revolution and who the elites began to worry.  Finally  is mentioned in the readings so I took a moment to read about who she was.   Simon Bolivar was a masn looking yto stop the Spainards […]

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