This Weeks material touched on the anxieties Latin Americans faced in the age of the Caudillos as Argentina moved from a violent and seemingly barbaric leader in Juan Manuel de Rosas to a more organised republican system of government. One thing I found interesting was how regardless of the ruthlessness of Rosas leadership, the catholic …
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From what I read I just feel that many people who is reading this kind of lecture will probably think that Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna was a very good man and someone who did everything for Mexico but I do not think in that way. When I was taking history courses in my country […]
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After reading through Simon Bolivar’s letter to Jamaica in response to Henry Cullen’s what I find incredible is how he manages to express his political and philosophical point of view on Latin America in comparison to Marti’s letter to the world, specifically targeting towards Cuba. Both have the same ideas on fighting and obtaining independence […]
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This week’s readings were quite interesting as it offered a new perspective for me. I had basic knowledge regarding who Simon Bolivar was, he was a The Liberator, and a soldier who led the revolutions against Spain, but I wasn’t quite aware of his ideas, or his political agenda. The part that I personally found […]
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The was one of the topics I have been looking forward to discuss. It is incredibly interesting to dig deep on how the process of colonization and independence influence what our latin american societies are today. Even now we can see how the different regions in Latin america have diverse cultures within themselves. The Caribbean […]
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Of all the readings this week, I felt most captivated by Hugo Chávez’s speech. It brought to light the fact that despite their efforts, many Latin American countries have yet to truly break free from the lasting effects of colonialism. Chávez references Simón Bolívar and his “Letter from Jamaica”, a document that was written over […]
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First of all, I enjoyed very much the readings of this week because I think politicians like Bolivar and also Hugo Chavez are very important if you want to understand what it is happening in South America in this precisely moment. I need to say that Bolivar was a great hero to me, he was […]
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In writing “Letter to Jamaica” Simon Bolivar does a very good job of outlining and expressing his views and ideas on the current situation Americans were in and the possible future of South America he so vividly imagines. The letter details various solutions to the issues he first explains and I found his thoughts to be …
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“Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain” written in 1811 by American, Alexander von Humboldt, explores issues of race from yet another perspective. As an American, and particularly based out of New York, Humboldt has a frame of reference for coexistence (or lack there of) with both free blacks and respective indigenous groups. […]
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http://dcc.newberry.org/collections/caste-and-politics-in-mexican-independence This section of Ward’s text explicitly discusses, with an inherently British bias, the particularly Mexican casta system and general race relations and social motives. The perspective he contributes to this phenomenon is particularly interesting because he is not himself apart of the system by any account and therefore able to offer a […]
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