Today, almost every street in El Salvador will be the center of a great celebration: Independence. Big parades full of music, dances, colourful costumes, fireworks, and floats are planned every single year to commemorate the establishment of a “free nation”. When I ask myself, is El Salvador a really free nation? Are we owners ofContinue reading “Week 3| Independence: The Beginning of a New Colonial Period?”
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For this week’s lecture video and readings, a great emphasis is placed on a subjective and fairly contentious topic-that of citizenship and rights. As we have been exploring the nature of Latin America, both as a geographical set of nations and as an abstract idea, we have looked into its conception and maturation, as it… Continue reading Freedom as a Process →
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Hello! This week I was so intrigued by the comparison between Latin American citizenship and rights discussion versus Canadian citizenship and rights discussion. Although I am originally from Argentina, my academic knowledge of this subject is much more centered in the Canadian indigenous perspective due to the direction my academics have taken me. One of […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Citizenship, independence, indigenous, representation, rights, slavery
Hello! This week I was so intrigued by the comparison between Latin American citizenship and rights discussion versus Canadian citizenship and rights discussion. Although I am originally from Argentina, my academic knowledge of this subject is much more centered in the Canadian indigenous perspective due to the direction my academics have taken me. One of […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with Citizenship, independence, indigenous, representation, rights, slavery
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 we’re are discussing the role of Caudillos in the course of post-independence Latin America. I think a good place to start is with this quote from the Dawson text. “ They (caudillos) were figures who entered the vacuum of power left by the collapse of the Spanish colonial state and who offered hope […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with Bolívar, Brazil, caudillo, clientelism, independence, Mexico, Nation state, Santa Anna