Video by Emilia, Hannah, Niko, and Nitya
Posted in Student Videos - 2020, Week 11 Videos | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, Dirty Wars, Mexico, religion, Terror, violence
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”
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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with guerrillas, military, Peru, Sendero Luminoso, Terror
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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with democracy, Terror, United States