To recap the conclusions of last week’s readings, the Caudillo was the best governing system for post-colonial Latin America. This system kept the rich where they wanted to be, at the top with the ability to control laws and to decide if they would like to impose them. The poor and marginalized inherit the new […]
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Last week we discussed how important political representation. This reminded me of why it is so important to vote and use your voice to elect the representation you want. When you don’t vote you don’t have the opportunity to be represented when decisions are being made that will directly affect your way of living. Independence is […]
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Last week we discussed how important political representation. This reminded me of why it is so important to vote and use your voice to elect the representation you want. When you don’t vote you don’t have the opportunity to be represented when decisions are being made that will directly affect your way of living. Independence is […]
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This week I felt like we truly saw the aftermath of the Spanish leaving Latin America. I do not mean this is a negative or positive way but rather in an attempt to understand perhaps why Latin America fell to so much war, violence and strife. After the independence from Spain Latin America had aContinue reading “Week 5: Caudillos Versus the Nation State”
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This week we looked at how history is told. We talk about Simon Bolivar, Marti, Hugo Chavez, the Haitian revolution and who the elites began to worry. Finally is mentioned in the readings so I took a moment to read about who she was. Simon Bolivar was a masn looking yto stop the Spainards […]
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This week we looked at how history is told. We talk about Simon Bolivar, Marti, Hugo Chavez, the Haitian revolution and who the elites began to worry. Finally is mentioned in the readings so I took a moment to read about who she was. Simon Bolivar was a masn looking yto stop the Spainards […]
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What a wild ride this has been, Latin American Studies. It’s crazy to think that the semester is already concluding; I feel as if we could spend the entire year discussing Latin America, but alas, the learning has come to an end. And what a better way to end the course than with the (moreContinue reading “Towards an Uncertain Future”
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Colombia just joined on November 21st to the long list of Latin American countries where citizens have gone out to the streets to shout out for their rights and ask for changes in public policies or even a change of president. Chile, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haití, Venezuela, and now Colombia make up the list ofContinue reading “Week 13 | The End?”
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And just like that, it’s the end of term! It’s been a fast paced and jam packed thirteen weeks in this course, but it’s been a pleasure. Before getting started on my last blog post, I want to thank everyone in our Thursday class for such enlightening and challenging discussions. Furthermore, I’d like to thankContinue reading “Week 13: Towards an Uncertain Future; Our Pasts Repeated”
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I am so glad that this weeks reading continued talking about the dirty wars, looking at it not from the point of view of the victims or the perpetrators, but from the side of those who were affected by these disappearances of loved ones. I feel as if we could have spent the whole termContinue reading “Speaking Truth to Power”
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