Reading this week’s material was very interesting and I think chapter 9 may be my favourite chapter so far! I found it was the chapter that had the most obvious relevance to today’s world and referenced issues I was more familiar with. For a while now I have been particularly interested in the United States’ foreign intervention …
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Firstly, I want to say that the most interesting part from the lecture at least in my opinion was the important influence that the United States of America had in many countries from Latin American. I think their influence started because they want to control everything, not only the economic aspects but also political and […]
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So far this has been my favorite chapter of all the syllabus. I believe it is because it talks not ony about things I learned during my high school history, but also because it introduces us the reasons why Latin America is so influenced today by the US culture and economically dependent of it. While […]
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This signs of crisis in Latin America were previously announced to us in the previous chapter. One of the things I found most interesting is the fact that while reading the “Plan de Ayala” you can see a very strong contrast with the description made by James Creelman about mexico and how progressive it was, […]
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The modernization of Mexico under Porfirio Diaz’s rule seemed like a step in the right direction on the surface and I think that the vast improvements made were beneficial but I also think they the uneven development of the country lead to more problems. While the elite in the country were able to reap the […]
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I thought this week’s content was very interesting and in particular I enjoyed reading the Ruben Dario Poem to Roosevelt. As Dawson says, it resembles some ideas that can be found in Jose Marti’s “Our America” of Latin American excellence and I too would agree that Marti’s message is echoed in this piece. Personally, I …
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I need to say that I enjoyed the readings of this week because it involves a lot of stories about Mexico. First of all, I think that countries like Mexico and Chile for example, used to have so many struggles and problems with poor people. With these kind of situations, the Mexican government at the […]
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The focus of this week was about the the process to freedom from slavery. Specifically targeted towards natives, blacks, and women. It was a difficult topic to read about as you learn about how during this time period colonial leaders wouldn’t do anything to solve such horrible discrimination to maintain themselves in power. You learn […]
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It was interesting how photographs could convey so much. Each photo’s story could be interpreted or altered in different ways depending on the style. It was really intriguing to me how something as simple as the photo subject’s posture or the pose they assumed and their eye gaze could determine status as well. The latter […]
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Latin America after independence in its process of establishing democracy we can see how many of the economies majorly grew. Most of them grew under the basis of an “export Oligarchy”, it is named “Oligarchy” because the economies were export based economies however only a small elite group of the population, mostly the landowners benefited […]
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