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Leading the Terror

Leading the Terror

Video by Emilia, Hannah, Niko, and Nitya

Posted in Student Videos - 2020, Week 11 Videos | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, Dirty Wars, Mexico, religion, Terror, violence

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”

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Chile, Music, No Campaign, pinochet

Week12: Speaking Truth to Power

This week’s lecture made me realize the large role media technology plays in politics. Last week, in a similar sense, we were able to witness how much of an impact a politician can make when they use technologies such as the radio and how the people were starting to be able to get their demands […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with BLOG, Chile, No Campaign, truth to power, week11

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…

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Chile, El Caracazo, media, neoliberalism, populism

Back to the Barracks

Back to the Barracks

Alec Dawson on the end of military rule in Argentina and Chile (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 12 Podcasts | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, democracy, military, transitions

12. Speaking Truth to Power

12. Speaking Truth to Power

week 12 lecture (video)

Posted in Featured Articles and Videos, Lecture Videos, Week 12 Lecture | Tagged with Argentina, Bolivia, C20th, C21st, Caracazo, Chile, Mexico, Mothers of the Disappeared, Protest, resistance, technology, Venezuela

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

For this week I wanted to focus on Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart’s “From the Noble Savage to the Third World”, which I found particularly interesting. As someone whose watched several Disney propaganda cartoons produced during WWII, this document brought in familiar themes in many ways. The book represents a form of cultural colonialism that […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with ariel, armand, aztecland, censorship, Chile, Disney, disnify, Donald Duck, Mexico, pinochet, scrooge

Week 13: Towards and Uncertain Future

For this week, I decided to write about Chile. Chile is in the middle of a decisive moment as students went to the streets to protest against a rise in metro costs. The unrest is surprising as Chile lauds itself for being one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America. For my articles this week, I picked two opinion peaces that look into the nuances of the situation.

The first piece, by the New York Times, titled Chile Learns the Price of Economic Inequality, examines the protests in the context of economic prosperity. While the Chilean economy is quite strong, the economic inequality means that only a few benefit from the wealth. Public spending on hospitals, public welfare, and more general methods of distributing wealth are virtually nonexistent. The article also points out that while the protesters began their movement after the rise in bus fare, tensions have existed for a long time due to this evident wealth inequality. The wealth gap in Chile is incredibly visual; Santiago has a district called Sanhattan, a reflection of its large buildings and prosperous wealth similar to Manhattan. Yet outside city limits are shanty towns and public works projects that are falling apart. This piece did take a critical angle of those involved in the protest because of their destruction of property yet I think that this interpretation ignores the power of the upper class and also the human rights violations of the Chilean government. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/opinion/chile-protests.html
The second piece I looked at was posted today by Al Jazeera as an update surrounding government mentality and response to protest. A senator this week was quoted saying that human rights violations are and will be necessary to restore order in Chile. This senator, Andres Allemand has a close relationship to the president sparking massive amounts of concern. The protests have already gotten violent with 26 dead and 2,300 injured; unchecked military responses would only further casualties. Rather than attempting to create policies that could alleviate economic inequality, the government is more interested in using force to subdue the public. I feel like this will only create more distress and larger protests as the public will continue to have concrete reasons on why the government is failing them. Protests and revolutions are hard to stop with force; people are incredibly resilient and will always find small forms of resistance. 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/anger-chile-ally-president-rights-abuses-191126011700082.html

Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with Chile

Week 13: Towards and Uncertain Future

For this week, I decided to write about Chile. Chile is in the middle of a decisive moment as students went to the streets to protest against a rise in metro costs. The unrest is surprising as Chile lauds itself for being one of the most prosperous cou…

Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with Chile

Week Eleven: The Terror

A concept that Dawson discussed in the reading this week that stuck me was the “voyeuristic quality” of the testimonio, and the way in which third party readers on the outside looking in may assign Manichean dialogues in an attempt to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Chile, Extrajudicial killings, Fujimori, Peru, pinochet, Terror

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