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Week 11- The Terror

I feel like this week’s material was sort of like a reality check.  Latin American is repeatedly described as being…

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with oppression, regime, Socialism, Terror

Week 11: The Terror

I recently researched about the highest homicide rates among cities around the world and I was left with the staggering number of 41 out of the top 50 highest cities being from Latin America. Furthermore, through further reading of the article the site illustrates that the source of these homicides in latin america are largely […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Civil War, oppression, Peru, Terror

Week 4 Blog Entry

I found it very interesting this week to learn just how diverse the independence and freedom of Latin America was in the past. Never before had I considered the inextricable influences slavery and independence had on each other. The differing … Continue reading →

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Week Four

  One of the more interesting quotes that I came across during the video about Hugo Chávez was actually about Bolívar. It was that for him the “process of independence was never a social revolution”. I think that this is well supported by our reading and the lecture because in each source, he always discusses … Continue reading “Week Four”

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Bolívar, Chávez, creole elite, Indigenous peoples, Martí, oppression, revolution

Week Four

  One of the more interesting quotes that I came across during the video about Hugo Chávez was actually about Bolívar. It was that for him the “process of independence was never a social revolution”. I think that this is well supported by our reading and the lecture because in each source, he always discusses … Continue reading “Week Four”

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Bolívar, Chávez, creole elite, Indigenous peoples, Martí, oppression, revolution

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