Nancy Fraser says that to understand what a just system is we need to first experience or witness injustice. That is what this week’s chapter reminds me of, well, it also brought to my mind a lot of newspaper articles and news I’ve been bombarded with throughout my entire life. The problem of the drugContinue reading “Week 12 | “From whom do we demand justice?””
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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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When I was young my mom showed me a quote that is now famous among social networks: “…ser joven y no ser revolucionario es una contradicción hasta biológica” (to be young and not to be revolutionary is a contradiction, even a biological contradiction). Salvador Allende arrived to my life with the same narrative Che GuevaraContinue reading “Week 10 | “The Original Sin””
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Hi all. For this week’s post, I will be discussing and analyzing a video in relation to this week’s material, entitled “Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire III”. More particularly, I will be commenting on the remarks it made regarding U.S. Foreign Policy. To begin, the video states that the United States asserted its dominance and […]
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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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Every week Alexander Dawson reveals important clues of Latin America history that can help us understand the various context of the crisis we are living nowadays. During week 8 readings two themes (problems) caught my attention: the struggles to regain land and liberties and the fear of immigrants in the early 1900s. It’s interesting howContinue reading “Week 8 | Hasta la Victoria Siempre”
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The paradox of the “Order, then process” governmental system of the Golden Era made me understand how the regime systems of Latin America functions nowadays. While watching Alec Dawson’s video, the dots from the Porfirio Díaz interview started making sense in my head. It’s quite shocking to see how the Mantra of the export boomContinue reading “Week 7| Water, Land, and Education in a Modern Society.”
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This chapter of Latin American history appears to represent a relatively calm period of time, an seemingly irregular theme for this region. In the source, we learn of a time of overall prosperity and order, that lacked conflict, and stimulated economic growth, and in general terms, allowed these countries to move forward politically and socially.Continue reading “The Export Boom as Modernity”
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Modernization by definition means the transformation from a traditional, rural, agrarian society to a secular, urban, industrial society. Although the starting and end positions may be definite, how different countries attain modernity are drastically different. Due to a variety of influential factors such as social, cultural, political and economical histories, modernization can be executed successfullyContinue reading “Week 7: The Export Boom alongside Antidemocratic Enlightenment”
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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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