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The Slaughterhouse

For this week’s blog post I want to focus on “The Slaughterhouse” by Esteban Echeverría. The very first thing I noticed about this short piece is how graphic it is, especially when it comes to the scenes of violence and sexual abuse. Echeverria states at the end of the piece that the story is meant […]

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Week 5

This week’s reading provided a look inside post- independence Latin America. As it turns out, the result was perhaps not that of Bolivar’s dreams — the results were not overwhelmingly good for the creollos.  One thing that I have learned … Continue reading →

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Week 5: Federalists vs. Unitarians

Caudillos: “figures who entered the vacuum of power left by the collapse of the Spanish colonial state and who offered hope for stability through the force of their will and their capacity to vanquish their enemies.” In this sense, the appeal of the strongmen makes sense: the individual leadership was a stark difference compared to […]

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