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This week’s reading felt bittersweet for two main reasons. The first one is that our course is coming to an…
This week we reviewed/ revisited the idea that Latin America is, as Alexander Dawson describes it, as being Gilded with modernity. Modernity affects only parts of Latin America and ignores others. The Poet Ruben Dario This week I wanted to focus on the poem by Ruben Dario, called “To Rosevelt”. I found this poem to […]
I can’t believe how fast this month has passed! It feels like only last week we were being introduced to the complex dynamics of Latin America, and now we’re finishing up our final projects. I hope everyone’s doing well in these busy last weeks. As I expected, this week’s lecture and readings culminate with uncertainty, […]
I found this weeks readings very emotional and it was hard to read about the atrocities that went on in Latin America during the late 20th century and the early 21st century. It was also very moving to read about the Madres de la plaza de Mayo in particular. For a group of mothers whoContinue reading “Week 12: Where do we go now?”
Throughout the history of Latin America, violence played a major role in the movements of political and social change. During the mid to late 1900s terror ensued in countries all over Latin America while people were trying to fight for a better life. By the 1986 in Latina America, almost no government had come intoContinue reading “Week 11: The Violent Pursuit for Freedom”
Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on a video, entitled ’’Power to the People: Peronism’’, as well as on the broader Peronist movement. Firstly, the first part of the video outlines Peron as an opportunist who only saw this rise of the labour movement as an opportunity for him to gain […]
I found this weeks readings extremely interesting! It felt as though there was a whole completely other way of governing a post colonial state. The Revolution which began around 1959 in Cuba with political actors such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara leading the way, was the start of a new age. The Revolution isContinue reading “Week 10a: The Competing Narratives”
Throughout the earlier political history of Latin America and more specifically Argentina, the power had been dictated by the few rather than the many. There was power held by the colonisers, the elites, and the governing bodies. With the rise of media being used to spread political messages across the nation, the ‘power’ was beingContinue reading “Week 10: Echoes of a Nation”
I felt the description in this weeks lecture of 19th century post independence Latin America as [“Independent nations prolonging the colonial project”] to be interesting and apt. Bolivar and his contemporaries instigated a self serving independence in Latin America. It … Continue reading
