Whilst we had previously looked at America’s involvement and intervention in Latin America in a more political sense, this week’s lecture focused more on the cultural and economic aspects of their presence. I couldn’t help but try to find the similarities with European colonization that had taken place in continental Africa, yet immediately, from the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with american influence, deceit, disguise, economic globalisation, Panama Canal
Whilst we had previously looked at America’s involvement and intervention in Latin America in a more political sense, this week’s lecture focused more on the cultural and economic aspects of their presence. I couldn’t help but try to find the similarities with European colonization that had taken place in continental Africa, yet immediately, from the […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with american influence, deceit, disguise, economic globalisation, Panama Canal
This week we learned about how the US grew to become such a neo-colonial power in the early twentieth century with a focus on its military and economic relationships with Latin America. On the military side of things, I found it really interesting how the US used political unrest within a nation for its own […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Arbenz, bananas, colonization, Dario, identity, Martí, Neo-colonialism, Panama Canal, UFCO, US, violence
This week we learned about how the US grew to become such a neo-colonial power in the early twentieth century with a focus on its military and economic relationships with Latin America. On the military side of things, I found it really interesting how the US used political unrest within a nation for its own […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Arbenz, bananas, colonization, Dario, identity, Martí, Neo-colonialism, Panama Canal, UFCO, US, violence
