This week, the chapter talks about how the aftermath of the dirty wars in Latin America and the political cycle the majority of the countries went through. After the dirty wars, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, Latin American countries were for the most part in bad economic shape: poor economic management along with corruption at […]
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This week, the chapter talks about how the aftermath of the dirty wars in Latin America and the political cycle the majority of the countries went through. After the dirty wars, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, Latin American countries were for the most part in bad economic shape: poor economic management along with corruption at […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with commodities, economic growth, export boom, indigenous people, political trends
Simon Bolivar, in his 1815 Letter from Jamaica, wrote that “…a people is therefore enslaved when the government, by its nature or its vices, infringes on and usurps the rights of the citizen or subject.” By this definition of enslavement, I find that the notion of independence in Latin America was and always has been complex… Continue reading Exclusive Independence →
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