In the lecture video for this week, “ Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age” professor John talked about the…
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with Latinoamerica, No, Roosevelt, United States
Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on the release of Ovidio Guzmán, commonly known as one of El Chapo’s sons. More specifically, I will be comparing two responses to the incident, and give my own personal take on it. To give more background to the incident, a few weeks ago, the […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Drug Cartels, Drug Legalization, drug war, El Chapo, Mexico, Ovidio Guzman, United States
Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on the release of Ovidio Guzmán, commonly known as one of El Chapo’s sons. More specifically, I will be comparing two responses to the incident, and give my own personal take on it. To give more background to the incident, a few weeks ago, the […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Drug Cartels, Drug Legalization, drug war, El Chapo, Mexico, Ovidio Guzman, United States
Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on a video posted for week 12, entitled “Dictatorship and Resistance”. In it, Professor Rita de Grandis speaks about the military junta in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, which was supported by the United States through Operation Condor, though the exact extent of the American […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Argentina, Dirty War, Disappearances, Mexico, Operation Condor, United States
Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on a video posted for week 12, entitled “Dictatorship and Resistance”. In it, Professor Rita de Grandis speaks about the military junta in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, which was supported by the United States through Operation Condor, though the exact extent of the American […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Argentina, Dirty War, Disappearances, Mexico, Operation Condor, United States
I can’t believe how fast this month has passed! It feels like only last week we were being introduced to the complex dynamics of Latin America, and now we’re finishing up our final projects. I hope everyone’s doing well in these busy last weeks. As I expected, this week’s lecture and readings culminate with uncertainty, […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 13 | Tagged with autonomy, conservatism, Corruption, Power, United States
Revolutionary Cuba: A History is a comprehensive book detailing the prolonged revolution Cuba experienced under Castro. Chapters 2 and 3 explain what happened in the first decade of the revolution, the timeline our video project will focus on. Martínez-Fernández argues what Dawson argues: that the revolution in Cuba was a process, a movement, rather than […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 10 | Tagged with Che Guevara, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, new man, United States
Revolutionary Cuba: A History is a comprehensive book detailing the prolonged revolution Cuba experienced under Castro. Chapters 2 and 3 explain what happened in the first decade of the revolution, the timeline our video project will focus on. Martínez-Fernández argues what Dawson argues: that the revolution in Cuba was a process, a movement, rather than […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 10 | Tagged with Che Guevara, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, new man, United States
This source is a news story from the Associated Press dating back to 1963. It shows Cuba in a post-revolutionary state under the leadership of Fidel Castro. Differing from the 1959 video, this is American-produced content and shows us Castro’s Cuba from an American perspective. The video begins by introducing Cuba under Castro as “a […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 10 | Tagged with Castro, Che Guevara, communism, Cuba, Fidel Castro, United States
This source is a news story from the Associated Press dating back to 1963. It shows Cuba in a post-revolutionary state under the leadership of Fidel Castro. Differing from the 1959 video, this is American-produced content and shows us Castro’s Cuba from an American perspective. The video begins by introducing Cuba under Castro as “a […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 10 | Tagged with Castro, Che Guevara, communism, Cuba, Fidel Castro, United States
