Dawson describing the dirty wars and the role that women played in bringing down these oppressive regimes are the first time I’ve ever heard about them. Hearing how these brave women protested their children’s disappearance was truly remarkable. Reading that the “secret police began stalking the Madres, even kidnapping and killing a few” is really …
As Dawson attempts to find words apt for the period of time dubbed the “dirty war”, I can’t help but feel how relevant this is in current governments and cultures across the world. The labels like “dirty war” and “war on terror” are “unconventional forms of warfare where the enemy is within, and rarely in …
Creelman, James. “Porfirio Diaz, Hero of the Americas”. Pearson’s Magazine (1908). 14 Nov. 2016 In the article provided by Dawson, the James Creelman interviews Porfirio Diaz, the Mexican President who oversaw modernity in his country. Diaz talks about retiring and is often hypocritical in some of the statements he gives. For example, Diaz declares that …
In the beginning of the chapter, Dawson points out that “poor Brazilians had more power as consumers of popular music than they did as workers or citizens”. It is an interesting statement because it prompts me to believe that the concept of people buying beneficial products for themselves could be more democratic than “democratic governments” …
At the beginning of the chapter, something that stuck out for me, was the astounding number of workers that died while working on the Panama Canal. Although yellow fever and other diseases are the main culprit, the more than twenty-seven thousand five hundred people that perished is still a tremendous number of people. To put …