Happy Thanksgiving, all. Since there was no video lecture given by our professor for this week, I will be comenting on a related video, entitled “Modernity and Modernization in Mexico”. The first thought that caught my eye were the disconcerting similarities between the definition given of modernity and that which is understood of progress. Especially, […]
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Of course no one can possibly predict the future, but in the case of Venezuela, it seems that the Latin American country could very well become the next Soviet Union, at least when it comes to its collapse[1]. Considering the recent drop in the price of oil, and given that oil exports remains to this … Continue reading “Towards an Uncertain Future: The Case of Venezuela”
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Democracy, as Max Cameron points out, is a fickle thing. I thought he made an excellent point when he talked about how it can fail those without the ability to vote, especially things like nature. It is a novel idea to think about nature as having rights, but I suppose it makes sense when you […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with democracy, Potential, United States
Democracy, as Max Cameron points out, is a fickle thing. I thought he made an excellent point when he talked about how it can fail those without the ability to vote, especially things like nature. It is a novel idea to think about nature as having rights, but I suppose it makes sense when you […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with democracy, latin america, Potential, United States
It seems to me like the western hemisphere reacted to the Cuban Revolution and “The Cuban Missile Crisis” with fear. It is as if the rightist side of the political spectrum responded to the swell of leftist ideologies taking hold of power in Cuba. It is as if it all came too close to home—Russia […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with democracy, Terror, United States
Sadly, the time has come to write the ultimate blog for LAST100 😦 Last week, we talked about the horrendous violence and the victims of the dictatorship that took place in 1976. This week we are moving on and focusing on the tendency of the Latin American countries to shift towards leftism, especially in recent … Continue reading Week 13
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I think one of the most interesting things to me about the Sendero Luminoso is their direct condemnation of democracy. I personally…
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Caudillaje, caudillo, democracy, Dirty Wars, liberalism, Sendero Luminoso, The Terror
In this week’s reading, I found it very interesting to read about the interplay between politics and technology. The invention of radio dramatically changed the political sphere in Latin America, and the lives of citizens by extension. The radio acted … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 10 | Tagged with Argentina, Brazil, democracy, Mexico, Peronism, populism, radio, technology
The first emotion I feel whenever I hear about the united fruit company is one of disgust; how could a corporation be allowed to be so aggressively expansive and so disrespectful in its treatment of the population it essentially controlled? One of the many monikers for the company was “el pulpo,” or “the octopus,” referencing […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Civil War, democracy, Guatemala, US
I found Dawson’s discussion of modernity to be very interesting and it really helped me frame my own ideas about…
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with democracy, dictators, elites, hindsight, Mexico, modernity, revolution
