Week 11 : The Terror
This week was mainly focused on the terror in Peru and the rule of Alberto Fujimori. Alberto Fujimori’s approach as…
Short Research and Writing Assignment
Week 5: Caudillos Versus the Nation State Terror of the Caudillos/Rosas. Source 1 The first source I will be…
Week 10: Power to the People
Populism is not a realistic longterm view on running politics. Populism is cantered around those in society who are in…
Week 9 – Commerce, coercion, and America’s empire
This week focused heavily on Latin America’s relationship with North America, but most directly related to its relations with the…
Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age
When discussing these weeks reading the one that stood out to me the most was The Plan de Ayala. The…
Week 7 : the export boom as modernity
Modernity is an idea made up and followed mainly by westernized societies. Yet it has become the new normal for…
Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics
Just as most of my female classmates this week, reading Josefinas article was quite difficult. As her ideas are not…
Caudillos Versus the Nation State
This weeks reading regarding the slaughterhouse was quite hard to read. Echeverría depiction of the scene, was very graphic and…
Week 4: Independence Narratives, past and present
When Jose Marti discusses in the beginning of his article of the fact that those who have no faith in…
The Colonial Experience
This weeks reading on Catalina de Erauso left me very conflicted on how I feel towards her. I say her…