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Week 6 – El Partido Independiente de Color & Emancipation as an On-Going Process

One of the documents included in our required reading this week was “Political Program of the Partido Independiente de Color”. This document was published in 1908 as the constitution of the political party Partido Independente de Color. I was incredibly shocked … Continue reading →

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American Intervention

The US is sometimes thought of as a big bully and this is especially true when looking at the intervention…

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Week 11

In this week’s reading, we pass over the revolution in Cuba to what was going on the the Latin American region between the years of 1960-2000. This time was noted but the extreme violence in that region of the world by parties that were both leftists and right-wing radicals. In the first part of this […]

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Week 11

In this week’s reading, we pass over the revolution in Cuba to what was going on the the Latin American region between the years of 1960-2000. This time was noted but the extreme violence in that region of the world by parties that were both leftists and right-wing radicals. In the first part of this […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, Cold War, latin america, Peru, Shining Path, USA

Silent War

Silent War

Colombia’s Fight Against Yellow Fever (c. 1945)

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Journey to Banana Land

Journey to Banana Land

Banana culture (1950)

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