To continue on sounding like a broken record, I had never heard of the events of this week’s readings. The terror in Peru, Sendero’s war or even of Fujimori. The amount of history that I don’t know of is quite daunting and I hope that even after this course has ended I will continue on […]
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The radio was an incredibly important tool for politicians. It made it possible for people in remote areas to receive information and for politicians to influence the citizens. There was also more of a social aspect to the radio, as opposed to newspapers. Reading a newspapers is a very solitary activity, whereas many people could […]
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Following along with what was discussed in week 11 of our class with “Los Desaparecidos.” This week we looked into concepts that occurred during and after the military dictatorship within the late 1970’s to early 1980’s. One aftermath that stayed in my mind was the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo. Mothers who were victims of […]
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When thinking about the period that most Latin American countries went through after a transition from military regimes to democracy is difficult to explain. The description of the overthrown of the dictatorships by the 1980s, might be very crystal clear on how the events took place at the time, but what happened after is what […]
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The reading of chapter 12 are quite new and strange to me. Like many events in Latin America, it was a mystery to me, and quite honestly I’m shocked that I had never heard of this. Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, were protesting and demanding answers for the disappearance of their children. The […]
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I had already heard of Fujimori and the terror that he caused in Peru. Both my parents are from Peru, and I myself was born there, so this chapter wasn’t new to me. The only way that I can relate to this chapter is through persona; experiences, and stories which my parents experienced and had to […]
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The first source I chose is Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903 by Nancy LaGreca. It was an important piece of literature which is centralized around life for civilians in Puerto Rico. The novel is significant because I used it to give a bit of a […]
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This chapter is an extension of the previous chapter. it focuses on the export boom, but it gives us an different point of view, one which paints a totally different picture. The boom created wealth for many nations in Latin America. Wealth, and modernity always has a two sided story: the exapnsion of richess of […]
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Chapter 4 of Dawson’s Latin America Since the Independence focuses on the modernization of Latin America, in some ways, it can be perceived that Latin America is more concentrated in transforming itself to be European. Modernization in some of Latin America’s nations focused on innovation in the expansion of new technologies. The export boom in Latin America saw […]
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This past week’s lecture and readings touched on some of the dark ages in Argentine history. The 1970s and 80s saw Argentina become the victim of a devastating military coup and subsequent authoritarian dictatorship. These regimes lead by the likes of Jorge Rafael Videla and _______ were oppressive and violent, silencing voices and instilling utter …
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