This week’s homework focuses on the influence that the United States had, both positively and negatively, on Latin America prior to 1959. Throughout the readings, I found many intersecting sections, one being the core periphery relationship between the United States and several countries within Central America and the Caribbean. Similar to cases in the past, […]
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This week’s readings look at the United States influence within Latin America and the effects that is has on the people living within the region. In the majority of the documents read the average person of the Latin American countries views the United States influence in a negative light, stating the United States is exploiting […]
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This week’s readings look at the United States influence within Latin America and the effects that is has on the people living within the region. In the majority of the documents read the average person of the Latin American countries views the United States influence in a negative light, stating the United States is exploiting […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with latin america
The United States presence in Latin America is often represented in simple terms, as a violent oppressor or noble saviour. There are many ideas around this concept but it is up to us to uncover the truths behind them. There is a stigma that comes with being so powerful, and in the case of the […]
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The United States presence in Latin America is often represented in simple terms, as a violent oppressor or noble saviour. There are many ideas around this concept but it is up to us to uncover the truths behind them. There is a stigma that comes with being so powerful, and in the case of the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with latin america, United States
When we focus exclusively as a way to understanding modernity in an economic way, then we can leave out even after the golden age of the export oligarchy ended there were people who did not beneficiated from such period. The cycles of inequalities have always been very close to the daily lives of Latin Americans […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with latin america, Mexico
When we focus exclusively as a way to understanding modernity in an economic way, then we can leave out even after the golden age of the export oligarchy ended there were people who did not beneficiated from such period. The cycles of inequalities have always been very close to the daily lives of Latin Americans […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with latin america, Mexico
This week’s reading was very centered on the theme of modernity and it got me thinking. I mean, if you have taken economy classes, you probably have learned that the fastest way for an underdeveloped country to embrace progress is through forest investment and international borrowing. Many countries in Latin America followed this policy after […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with America, Argentina, Civilizatioin, Colonial, latin america, modernity
This week’s reading was very centered on the theme of modernity and it got me thinking. I mean, if you have taken economy classes, you probably have learned that the fastest way for an underdeveloped country to embrace progress is through forest investment and international borrowing. Many countries in Latin America followed this policy after […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with America, Argentina, Civilizatioin, Colonial, latin america, modernity
Week Six: “Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics” The concept of citizenship, at least from the modern democratic point of view, is a recent one. Its meaning changes through time and what it represents may also depends of who is at the top of the hierarchical scale implementing laws and regulations. In the case […]
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