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Ending on a happy note – week 13

As we’ve discussed in class, it’s important to not always “end on a heavy note.” Though it has proven difficult in the context of our classroom discussions in LAST 100, there are, in fact, many positive vibrant dynamic events people movements happening in Latin America. To focus entirely on the negative conflict-riddenness or violent aspects of Latin America is to only tell one story about such a vast and diverse continent and its peoples. Further, this single story of damage threatens to make invisible the actual lives of Latin Americans,…read more

A new dealer, same game? – week 9

Posted by jacob fischer-schmidt in Week 9

The twentieth century brought a new international culture, a new dynamic to which Latin American nations and peoples would have to adjust to and engage in. In the stead of traditional European domination, a new ‘exchange’ emerged with the United States of America – one that would be contrasted with the old imperialist European hegemony. The USA described itself as anti-imperial, and insisted on a new kind of relationship with the ‘outside world’ for Latin America. However, as we have seen this week, this professed divergence between European and USA…read more