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“Tierra Y Libertad”: Who’s Revolution Is It Anyway?

Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was born in the small rural town of Anenecuilco in the state of Morelos in 1879 and was directly affected by discriminatory and capitalist policies since Porfirio Díaz came to power before Zapata was born in 1877. Having grown up as a paisano in a Mexico that prioritized the rights …

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Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with 20th century, Agrarian Socialism, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Madero, indigenous rights, Mexico, paisanos, Porfirio Díaz, revolution, Zapatismo

Post-Revolution Latin America: Race and Acceptance In a ‘New’ Society

This week we are learning about why liberalism never quite thrived in Latin America, and why perhaps liberal ideals were never fully absorbed and integrated into Latin American cultures and societies. As we learnt last week, the Caudillo revolutionaries had ideologically great ideas for the future of Latin America, included in these were: freedom, equality,  …

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Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with acceptance, caudillos, colonialism, emancipation, indigenous rights, race, revolution

Caudillismo: Indigenous In the Modern World

In this week’s readings, we read about the Caudillo Era in the 19th Century in which once again, Indigenous people were being leveraged and used for the sake of the ‘superior’ classes (elites), after and during the Independence revolution spearheaded by those living in the colonies.  The Caudillo Era was a point in Spanish Colonial …

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Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillismo, caudillos, colonialism, indigenous rights, military, politics, revolution, Spain

1492: The Ethics of Spanish Imperialism and Europe’s Modern Identity

Out of all of the points covered in the lecture video this week, the topic I found most interesting was the question concerning whether or not Christopher Columbus should be considered a villain or a hero when comparing his exploratory feats to that of the events that resulted from them. Much of what I have …

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Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with 'European self', 1492, aztec, Columbus, european, indigenous rights, Meeting of Two Worlds, Todorov

Week Thirteen

In the past two to three decades, there has been a general trend towards improvement in Latin America. Granted, there…

Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with indigenous rights, politics, the future, US intervention

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