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Week 11 | Never Ending Terror

Fear seems to always conquer the narratives of Latin America history. As time goes by, the doctrine of terror or shock is the best policy to control and annihilate any expression or movement of discontent and change demands. The crisis of the region gave the opportunity to politicians that offer a different approach in theirContinue reading “Week 11 | Never Ending Terror”

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Week 9 | “Liberation Frequency”

For the Salvadoran guerrilla, radio was the key to gain control of several territories and minds of the country. The power that the radio gave them to practice freedom of speech by creating spaces where revolutionary songs, the theory of liberation, revolutionary propaganda, and updates of guerrilla warfare spread through an oppressed population eager forContinue reading “Week 9 | “Liberation Frequency””

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Week 6 | Mutation of Emancipation

Have you ever stopped to analyze the national anthem of your country? That’s what this week’s readings made me do. “De la paz en la dicha suprema,Siempre noble soñó El Salvador;Fue obtenerla su eterno problema,Conservarla es su gloria mayor.” This excerpt of the national anthem says that El Salvador always dreamed of being in the “supreme bliss” of peace and how achieving this was an eternalContinue reading “Week 6 | Mutation of Emancipation”

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Week One of LAST100, and What A Ride It’s Already Been, or How I Learned to Love Myself Again.

Hi! My name is Tom Lambrou and I’m in my fourth year at UBC, having recently transferred from the idea of working a major in Creative Writing to pursuing the (likely) far more applicable degree in English Literature studies. I am taking the LAST 100 course mainly in the spirit of having a more rounded […]

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