I found the speech by Hugo Chávez to be the most interesting of the the reading this week as it highlighted how many countries in Latin America struggled against the lingering grasp of colonialism. In his speech, he refers to the Simón Bolívar and the Letter from Jamaica (which was written a century ago at the time); though a hundred years had passed, the hopes that Bolívar had for Latin American hadn’t been fulfilled.

Observing the all the readings as a whole, they demonstrate the diversity of Latin American – each countries history and subsequent views/ideologies differing from one another. It’s fascinating how the different the views are throughout the region and how even in one country that ideologies are contested.