First source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/09/life-under-pinochet-isabel-allende-day-we-buried-our-freedom/ As I was looking through articles and sites I came across two sources that caught my…
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The access to the doctrine of terror survivors’ testimonies has the power to unveil the truth and expose how their husbands, wives, children, friends, parents, and everything they possessed were violently taken away by a “state terrorist organized and supported by the United States” (Chomsky 21). On the morning of December 11th, 1981, the SalvadoranContinue reading “Research Assignment | “The Doctrine of Terror:a Testimony” (Source 2)”
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Primary source: Evita’s renouncement speech “Eva Perón’s last speech (1951).” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7ymWtnHWc It was 1951, and from the top of a scaffolding built on Avenida Nueve de Julio in Buenos Aires stood the Spiritual Leader of the Nation, Argentina’s first lady, Eva Perón. Beneath her, a crowd of peronistas relentlessly demanded Evita to declare her candidacy toContinue reading “Writing Reasearch Assignment Pt I”
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Primary source: Evita’s renouncement speech “Eva Perón’s last speech (1951).” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7ymWtnHWc It was 1951, and from the top of a scaffolding built on Avenida Nueve de Julio in Buenos Aires stood the Spiritual Leader of the Nation, Argentina’s first lady, Eva Perón. Beneath her, a crowd of peronistas relentlessly demanded Evita to declare her candidacy toContinue reading “Writing Reasearch Assignment Pt I”
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In Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky explains how the polarization of the world during the context of the Cold War created “a new era of domestic militarism and intervention” in Latin America, specifically in Central American countries (Chomsky 14-118). In chapter one and three, Chomsky outlines the chronological process by which the doctrine of terrorContinue reading “Research Assignment: “The Doctrine of Terror” (Source 1)”
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Summary of Hybridity of Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America by Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn The article connects to my groups theme of ”The Casta Paintings” in colonial latin america through its content. The article discusses the concepts of ”mixing’, ‘hybridity” (5) and how these concepts were implemented during the colonial period. The […]
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Our group is focusing on Week 9: “Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire”. This week discusses the United States’ economic influence…
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Sheinin, D. M. K..Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. Project MUSE For our project, our group decided to focus on the portrayal of different activist groups by the media in Latin America. This chapter from the book Consent of the Damned, Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty […]
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Group: The Export Boom as Modernity Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in Porfirian Mexico Author: Natalia Priego Priego, Natalia. (2008). Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in porfirian Mexico. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 15(2), 473-485. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702008000200016 Natalia Priego begins by … Continue reading →
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The political landscape of modern-day Latin America is often conceived of as a network of unfair, corrupt, impractical systems that only serve to further support those in high-ranking, wealthy positions. This very nature of Latin American politics is far from novel, as is illustrated by Frederic Hicks’ article on the persistence of caudillismo in modern-day… Continue reading Caudillismo – Research Assignment →
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