This week’s focus is on Peru, specifically movements concerning peasant’s rights, freedom from repression, and institutional corruption in the 1980s. Focusing on the Prolonged People’s War of the Shining Path and administration of Alberto Fujimori, Peru experienced another wave of conflict later than other Latin American countries. Rather than the communist revolutions earlier in the […]
I found the notion of “weakness” of Latin American states to be really interesting “no Latin American state had the capacity to effectively dominate all its opponents”. It seems like it actually benefited the poor somehow because they could renegotiate and have some influence over matters like taxes and laws. But the Argentine state was … Continue reading Week 12
This week’s video/reading struck me as being particularly interesting due to the enduring legacy of the quest for ‘order’. Even today, Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, and Eisenhower before him, uses rhetoric about the US military as if it’s in dire disrepair and needs to be rebuilt, needs more money. As absurd as […]
A massacre in Mexico, 1995 (video)
