This week’s readings all were about a time in Latin America that was so bloody and brutal. I wanted to focus on the one reading titled “A Day in the Trial of the Century” by Carolina Huamán Oyague. Carolina is a family member of one of the victims in the La Cantuta Massacre that happenedContinue reading “Week 11: The Terror”
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This week’s material was personally very hard to digest. I am blessed that I’ve never experienced atrocities such as war, genocide, or any kind of life-threatening situation in my lifetime. Imagining the scene of the events written in the text or shown in the videos is horrifying enough, the horror and anxiety the Latin American […]
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For the video project, our group has discussed adding a ‘human’ element to what occurred in Latin America between the 1960s-1980s, rather than simply relate what happened on a macro level and risk losing a real sense of grief over … Continue reading →
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For the video project, our group has discussed adding a ‘human’ element to what occurred in Latin America between the 1960s-1980s, rather than simply relate what happened on a macro level and risk losing a real sense of grief over … Continue reading →
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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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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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While reading this week I was reminded and saddened by how little the pursuit of truth really affects the way human beings interact. The shocking violence of the Terror is based on violently conflicting beliefs. The worst violence occurs in … Continue reading →
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While reading this week I was reminded and saddened by how little the pursuit of truth really affects the way human beings interact. The shocking violence of the Terror is based on violently conflicting beliefs. The worst violence occurs in … Continue reading →
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In the opening paragraphs of Dawson’s ninth chapter, The Terror, a particular sentence struck a cord with me which continued to resonate deeply throughout the rest of the text; “This may allow us to tell stories with definitive heroes and villains, to satisfy our desire for moral clarity. What we risks is gaining that clarityContinue reading “Week 11: The Terror of Narrow Perspectives”
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I think one of the most interesting things to me about the Sendero Luminoso is their direct condemnation of democracy. I personally…
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