From this week’s reading I selected The Interview of the Century, 1988 (excerpt) Whether the text is reliable in its claim of the mass’s power isn’t a given based off only the text itself. But it is also the case that Gonzalo’s call to violence did work for many “middle-class university students” and would continue […]
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This week we looked at Latin America in the late twentieth century and the political upheaval that took place in many nations. We focused specifically on the civil war within Peru. The war was really acts of terrorism perpetrated by both the state and a radical political group called The Shining Path. I found it […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Fujimori, Guzman, Peru, reformation, Terrorism, violence
This week we looked at Latin America in the late twentieth century and the political upheaval that took place in many nations. We focused specifically on the civil war within Peru. The war was really acts of terrorism perpetrated by both the state and a radical political group called The Shining Path. I found it […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Fujimori, Guzman, Peru, reformation, Terrorism, violence