For this week’s blogpost, I’m going to write based on the questions posed in the lecture. These were the three questions: Why was post-independence Latin America such fertile ground for caudillos? Why were caudillos especially popular among the poor and powerless? Does even Echeverría show them some grudging respect? At this point in the 19thContinue reading “Week 5: Caudillos vs the Nation State”
week 5 lecture (video)
Jon Beasley-Murray and Alec Dawson on “The Slaughterhouse” (podcast)
A conversation with Rita De Grandis
What I found particularly interesting this week was Jon’s discussion of the social contract, and how, in the face of such a fragmented and almost lawless society (especially in the countryside and remote outposts), such a concept that we take … Continue reading
What I found particularly interesting this week was Jon’s discussion of the social contract, and how, in the face of such a fragmented and almost lawless society (especially in the countryside and remote outposts), such a concept that we take … Continue reading
Post independent Latin America was not in an ideal political climate. Latin America in general during the nineteenth century was not considered “ideal” in any sense — it was described as a “violent place where every man was against every man,”. A place where there were wars against one another, as well as other nations […]
Video by Madeleine Deis, Christine Joy Ganase, Frances Perry, and Stephanie Steevie
I found this week’s readings most interesting. The entire way through reading them, I found myself questioning: what has changed; are caudillos unique to Latin America simply because they have a name for it? Curious about the literal meaning of the word ‘caudillo’, I looked it up in various sources, and I found words such […]
