When first listening to the concept of a dirty war, we might think about a conflict that became so extreme that ended up leaving a complete mess in a nation. Well it does refer to something similar. The concept of “Dirty wars” came from Argentina, and it was used to talk about a […]
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Populism as we know throughout history has been widely associated with Latin America. Revolutions that took place in countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia were believed to be lead to success by populism. The idea of populism refers to the believe that power should be given to the regular people. Populism defends the idea […]
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This week is probably going to be my favorite week for what we are researching and learning. The most background I have on this topic is through movies that have been produced representing areas of Latin America during “dirty wars.” In a summer camp at Quest University, we made research using movies as our tool […]
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Dugdale-Pointon, TDP. (3 March 2002), Peninsular War (1807-14), http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_peninsular.html The first research site I used is this website called “History of war” where it introduces the peninsular war between 1807 and 1814. This is relevant to the topic because even though this war did not directly take place in Latin american territory we know that […]
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From these week readings, I just realised that people from Peru in those times used to have so many problems such as corruption, poverty and violence and because of that is that people had lots of politicians who were very corrupt and authoritarian like Fujimori. It is true that Fujimori was a true leader because […]
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This week we looked at the definition to populism and how people through different sorts of technology projected their power. Populism is defined according to the definition given to us by our professor, the nation of the “people,” which was used to define the political events that was going on with Latin America during the […]
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Raimundo (Raymundo) Nina Rodrigues, The Fetishist Animism of the Bahian Blacks (O animismo fetichista dos negros bahianos) (1896-1900), excerpt. (Dawson 91-94) This excerpt talks about some of the violence that people had to endure under slavery, specifically in a religious context. Any behaviour or lifestyle that was not Christian, white, and European was considered inferior. Rodrigues explains […]
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Jose de San Martin -Kathy Moignard This article summarizes Jose de San Martin’s role as one of the liberators of Argantina and Latin America. The article chronicles how San Martin was originally a brilliant young soldier in the spanish army but then returned to his nation of birth, Argentina, in 1812 to fight for the revolutionary …
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Raat, W. Dirk. 1982. Mexico, from independence to revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. In my first source, I’m talking more about what were the main causes of Independence in Mexico. The independence of Mexico started in because Mexicans were very angry before those years, people from Spain treated them in such a bad […]
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Book “Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World” – A Global Sourcebook and History. Tiffany K. Wayne (Editor). Pages 264 – 267 This book is focused on a collection of multiple different types of writings by feminists from history. Tiffany K. Wayne tells the audience who the woman is, what she wrote about, […]
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