Video by Emilia, Hannah, Niko, and Nitya
This week on “the terror” covered the internal strife of the region encompassing civil war and political instability. I think a theme that was present in the readings this week was the concept of the truth- and for lack of a better word the overall “sketchiness” that overwhelmed the period. These concepts are especially exemplifiedContinue reading “Week 11: The terror”
I feel like this week’s material was sort of like a reality check. Latin American is repeatedly described as being…
Alec Dawson on the dirty wars of the 1970s and 1980s (podcast)
The terror in Latin American countries was a movement that was more spread out than I initially thought. Of course, each different country had it’s own events leading up to it and it happened in different ways, so it isn`t possible to say that the history of every country is the same, but there certainly […]
A concept that Dawson discussed in the reading this week that stuck me was the “voyeuristic quality” of the testimonio, and the way in which third party readers on the outside looking in may assign Manichean dialogues in an attempt to … Continue reading
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”
Fear seems to always conquer the narratives of Latin America history. As time goes by, the doctrine of terror or shock is the best policy to control and annihilate any expression or movement of discontent and change demands. The crisis of the region gave the opportunity to politicians that offer a different approach in theirContinue reading “Week 11 | Never Ending Terror”
This reading was a little hard to follow because it talked about different countries as opposed to focusing on just one. However, this was also the topic that my group and I did our video project on so I will be focusing mainly on Peru and the rise of Sendero Luminoso. When I started reading […]
It seems to me like the western hemisphere reacted to the Cuban Revolution and “The Cuban Missile Crisis” with fear. It is as if the rightist side of the political spectrum responded to the swell of leftist ideologies taking hold of power in Cuba. It is as if it all came too close to home—Russia […]
