Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on a video posted for week 12, entitled “Dictatorship and Resistance”. In it, Professor Rita de Grandis speaks about the military junta in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, which was supported by the United States through Operation Condor, though the exact extent of the American […]
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Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on a video posted for week 12, entitled “Dictatorship and Resistance”. In it, Professor Rita de Grandis speaks about the military junta in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, which was supported by the United States through Operation Condor, though the exact extent of the American […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Argentina, Dirty War, Disappearances, Mexico, Operation Condor, United States
While reading this week I was reminded and saddened by how little the pursuit of truth really affects the way human beings interact. The shocking violence of the Terror is based on violently conflicting beliefs. The worst violence occurs in … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Dirty War, Peru, senderos, The Terror
While reading this week I was reminded and saddened by how little the pursuit of truth really affects the way human beings interact. The shocking violence of the Terror is based on violently conflicting beliefs. The worst violence occurs in … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Dirty War, Peru, senderos, The Terror
I was really happy this week to see that we would be discussing the Cold War in Latin America. I think that the reason why by the 1980’s few of the countries mentioned had democratic governments was largely due to U.S. subversion in fear of communism. …
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I was really happy this week to see that we would be discussing the Cold War in Latin America. I think that the reason why by the 1980’s few of the countries mentioned had democratic governments was largely due to U.S. subversion in fear of communism. …
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Argentina, Dirty War, Peru
This week’s focus is on Peru, specifically movements concerning peasant’s rights, freedom from repression, and institutional corruption in the 1980s. Focusing on the Prolonged People’s War of the Shining Path and administration of Alberto Fujimori, Peru experienced another wave of conflict later than other Latin American countries. Rather than the communist revolutions earlier in the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with alberto fujimori, communism, Dirty War, land, land reform, Mexico, middle-class, peasants, Peru, repression, Shining Path
I still cannot believe that we are already done with the semester. I have managed to learn so much about Latin America which makes me realise how most developing countries need for incongruence and stability changes. For this blog post I will try and touch on a few of the videos and lectures I had read:
This week’s lectures were based on the post effects of the dirty wars which happened in 1970. Most of Latin America if not all had been left in such a bad shape because of all the corruption that had taken place throughout the years not only by people living there at the time but even the political leaders that had taken advantage of Latin America by exploiting all its resources. Poor management, inflation and a huge amount of debt had been the result of what happened after the dirty war.
The 1985 earthquake also left Mexico in shambles. After doing my own research I realised the magnitude of this issue, and of the earthquake- it struck in the early morning of 19 September at with a magnitude of of 8.0. Not only did the event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people, it left the city completely crumbling. Miguel de la Madrid, was the former president of Mexico whose scoffed management of the earthquake that shattered Mexico City in 1985. He was starting off his reign but did not do a very good job at reviving the city. The people had lost all hope in the government of Mexico. De la Madrid took offers of assistance from the north and put his pride before necessity which is why a lot of Mexicans to date do not think he did a good job being a leader- because of the way he handled the situation and not acknowledged the earthquake by accepting foreign aid. 32 years later Mexico was hit with another earthquake- Pena Nieto was the present at the time, and again during his reign there was not much assistance and the government proved to be once again incapable of handling such situations.
My question for today: currently, would you agree/disagree that Mexico’s government is capable of handling such situations if natural disasters were ever to occur?
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I still cannot believe that we are already done with the semester. I have managed to learn so much about Latin America which makes me realise how most developing countries need for incongruence and stability changes. For this blog post I will try and touch on a few of the videos and lectures I had read:
This week’s lectures were based on the post effects of the dirty wars which happened in 1970. Most of Latin America if not all had been left in such a bad shape because of all the corruption that had taken place throughout the years not only by people living there at the time but even the political leaders that had taken advantage of Latin America by exploiting all its resources. Poor management, inflation and a huge amount of debt had been the result of what happened after the dirty war.
The 1985 earthquake also left Mexico in shambles. After doing my own research I realised the magnitude of this issue, and of the earthquake- it struck in the early morning of 19 September at with a magnitude of of 8.0. Not only did the event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people, it left the city completely crumbling. Miguel de la Madrid, was the former president of Mexico whose scoffed management of the earthquake that shattered Mexico City in 1985. He was starting off his reign but did not do a very good job at reviving the city. The people had lost all hope in the government of Mexico. De la Madrid took offers of assistance from the north and put his pride before necessity which is why a lot of Mexicans to date do not think he did a good job being a leader- because of the way he handled the situation and not acknowledged the earthquake by accepting foreign aid. 32 years later Mexico was hit with another earthquake- Pena Nieto was the present at the time, and again during his reign there was not much assistance and the government proved to be once again incapable of handling such situations.
My question for today: currently, would you agree/disagree that Mexico’s government is capable of handling such situations if natural disasters were ever to occur?
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 1985, Dirty War, earthquake, government, Mexico, miguel de a madrid, pena nieto, post dirty war
The last few weeks in this course have demonstrated the extremities of violent activity and oppression in Latin America. As I discussed in last weeks topic and illustrated by Rita in the video, the power of the vote is extremely important, especially in a region such as Latin America where politics are unpredictable. (I doubt […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Dirty War, murder, Power
