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Hi all. Since there is no video lecture for this week’s material, I will be writing comments on a video entitled “Peru’s Civil War”, with Maxwell Cameron. One thing I found very interesting which can also be applied in the Peruvian context is that many (and one could argue even most) revolutionary movements praising social […]
Hi all. Since there is no video lecture for this week’s material, I will be writing comments on a video entitled “Peru’s Civil War”, with Maxwell Cameron. One thing I found very interesting which can also be applied in the Peruvian context is that many (and one could argue even most) revolutionary movements praising social […]
For this week’s blog post, I am choosing to focus on Che Guevara’s letter to the magazine Marcha – I think that it is very important (and interesting) to closely analyse the works of enduring figures that have had far-reaching … Continue reading
For this week’s blog post, I am choosing to focus on Che Guevara’s letter to the magazine Marcha – I think that it is very important (and interesting) to closely analyse the works of enduring figures that have had far-reaching … Continue reading
This week’s reading was extremely interesting and did a very good job of providing contrast to many pieces of literature that idolize the Cuban Revolution and its leaders. It is evident by the way Dawson writes this chapter that he does not at all idolize the Cuban Revolution or the ideologies of Ernesto “Che” Guevara …
When I was young my mom showed me a quote that is now famous among social networks: “…ser joven y no ser revolucionario es una contradicción hasta biológica” (to be young and not to be revolutionary is a contradiction, even a biological contradiction). Salvador Allende arrived to my life with the same narrative Che GuevaraContinue reading “Week 10 | “The Original Sin””
I believe this week’s topic is the topic for my group for the video and research assignments! I hope I was able to interpret it correctly to apply it to our upcoming projects, and I definitely look forward to reading what my classmates have made of the information in this week’s readings as well. I […]
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”
To me, there was an especially interesting passage in this week’s reading: “When Porfírio Díaz changed his mind and won an obviously fixed election (notable for the fact that Madero was jailed before election and then exiled), middle-class optimism turned to rage.” What struck me wasn’t the middle-class rage, but what caused it. Here areContinue reading “Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age”
