The Power of Corporations
This week’s reading felt bittersweet for two main reasons. The first one is that our course is coming to an…
Music, Protests and Neoliberalism
Through this week’s reading and videos, it was very powerful to see how las madres de plaza de mayo used…
Contrast in COVID-19 Response: Uruguay and Brazil
The first source selected for the video project, on Week 13: Towards an Uncertain Future, is a scholarly article titled…
Fujimori’s Legacy
As I write this blog post, pro-democracy protesters are taking to the streets in Peru amid a political crisis. Today,…
Gender and Politics
Learning about Evita this week made me think back to a comment that Professor Jon shared in one of our…
An analysis of “The Silent War”
This week’s topic on the relationship between the United States and Latin America, at times benevolent and at times clearly…
What it means to be American?
The anger and opposition to the United States’ interventionism that is expressed in Rubén Darío’s poem “To Roosevelt” still is…
Superficial Modernity
This weeks theme of modernization closely relates to what I have been studying for a sociology class on development and…
The Legacies of Slavery
For this week’s blog post, I want to reflect on the legacy of slavery. The questions that Professor Jon asked…
Laughing like Mafalda
Through our discussions we have come to recognize that the countries in Latin America are not completely independent, culturally, economically…