This week offered a necessary introduction to historical figures and intellects of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the 20th century, it would seem that for some nations, the peasants, aboriginals, and workers charged the government’s and administrations with negligence of a supposed liberated society by generation revolutions, strikes, and intellectual thought on the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with Argentina, Capitalism, communism, Ideology, Peru, Villa, Zapata
Modernity can be defined as the belief in the universal freedom and rationality of humanity, and is often posed as the conduit for teleological progress. I think the integration of modernity depends on a lot of factors. One of these is topographical. For example, as Dawson states: “Latin Americans lacked the resources needed to […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with apu, Barasana, Capitalism, democracy, Descartes, dominant, emergent, Huaorani, Locke, modernity, residual, West
For last week, I wrote about the question of who profited from the Terrors in Latin America of the late 20th century. This weeks reading brought me into a moment in which the economics of the War on Drugs were quite clear. The USA was sending huge amounts of military aid to countries or paramilitary […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Capitalism, D.A.R.E., police impunity, war is a racket, War on Drugs
Diaz’s proclamation, in 1908, that he would not run for the presidency opened the floodgates for countless marginalized groups to speak out against modernization. Groups that had for decades been silenced, displaced, repressed, and forced to work for the capitalist … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with Capitalism, indigenous, Mexican Revolution, modernity, Porfirio Díaz, revolution, Zapata
Echeverria’s The Slaughterhouse was very hard to read. Not only was it told from the perspective of an elite with deeply rooted racist opinions, but the tone of the story is one of dejected acceptance of the inevitable loss of … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with barbarism, Capitalism, caudillos, Echeverría, independence, interlocutors, liberalism, Mexico, state
This week’s topic “The Terror” gives insight into the rise of Latin America’s left wing guerilla groups. These groups were organized usually in opposition to governments’ right wing, free market approaches. Neoliberal and capitalist ideals in Latin America were not … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Capitalism, Cold War, communism, Guerilla, Terror
This week’s topic “The Terror” gives insight into the rise of Latin America’s left wing guerilla groups. These groups were organized usually in opposition to governments’ right wing, free market approaches. Neoliberal and capitalist ideals in Latin America were not … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Capitalism, Cold War, communism, Guerilla, Terror
