Echeverria’s The Slaughterhouse was very hard to read. Not only was it told from the perspective of an elite with deeply rooted racist opinions, but the tone of the story is one of dejected acceptance of the inevitable loss of … Continue reading →
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I was immediately struck by the assigned reading for this week, The Slaughterhouse, written by Esteban Echeverria. A dark, chaotic and exaggerated story of 19th century Argentina, the work reminded me a lot of George Orwell’s 1984. The themes are certainly similar, and they both aim to represent a system of government or hierarchy in power. Personally, […]
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I was not surprised to read that there was a lot of violence and conflict in post-independence Latin America, because…
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This week I was very intriguing because as we can see in the news and other outlets, liberalism continues to struggle to bloom successfully in Latin America. In my opinion, one of the main positives, but disadvantages in the case of Latin America, of liberalism is that it needs a strong sense of ‘self’, as […]
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This week I was very intriguing because as we can see in the news and other outlets, liberalism continues to struggle to bloom successfully in Latin America. In my opinion, one of the main positives, but disadvantages in the case of Latin America, of liberalism is that it needs a strong sense of ‘self’, as […]
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In my mind, the most fair and just way to rule a state is by means of an elected official with a democratic system. This is probably the way that I’ve been brought up; on the West side of Vancouver in a fairly liberal area, with parents that taught me about fairness and equality along […]
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This week’s lecture and readings were very interesting to dive into. What really drew me in was this larger idea that liberalism never had room to grow in Latin America amongst all of the violence that was going on at … Continue reading →
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This week’s lecture and readings were very interesting to dive into. What really drew me in was this larger idea that liberalism never had room to grow in Latin America amongst all of the violence that was going on at … Continue reading →
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Last week, we analyzed the political and social state of Latin America and its struggles leading up to independence from European rule. This week, we’re taking a look at what followed the independence process in the continent – how the vacuum in power left by the European authorities was filled, and which sectors of the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, clientelism, liberalism, post-independence
Last week, we analyzed the political and social state of Latin America and its struggles leading up to independence from European rule. This week, we’re taking a look at what followed the independence process in the continent – how the vacuum in power left by the European authorities was filled, and which sectors of the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, clientelism, liberalism, post-independence
