Activity 1: The Military and Politics

Activity 1: The Military and Politics

Reading

Read pages 67–87 of “The State and the Military” in Green and Branford’s chapter 2.

Focus Questions for Reading

Use the following questions to guide your reading. While your responses to these questions won’t be graded, consider writing them in a reading journal as a way of tracking your thoughts about key concepts, synthesizing your learning experience, and helping you to formulate your ideas for the discussions, written assignments, and project exam.

• What are the historical roots of the military autonomy and power in Latin America?
• How would you describe the relationship between economic and political power acquired by the Latin American hierarchies?
• What was the impact of the Cold War on the Latin American invasions by the US?
• What was the relationship between Latin American militaries and the US during the 1960s and beyond?
• What was the role of the civilians in the success of military coups throughout the region?
• What was the military performance in politics between the 1960s and the eighties?
• Explain the relationship between military regimes and debt crisis from the late 1970s to the 1980s.

Activity 2: The Left and Social Movements in Latin America

Reading

Read the following selections from Green and Branford’s Faces of Latin America:

• “The Left in Latin America” (pp. 88–106)
• “Social Movements and the Struggle for Change” (pp. 195–206)

Focus Questions for Reading

Use the following questions to guide your reading:

• Who was Augusto César Sandino, and why is he considered a symbol of revolutionary Nicaragua?
• Why did Sandino characterize the “guerrilla” as a revolutionary tactic?
• Explain the Cuban revolutionary process and its impact in Latin America.
• What was the role of the urban guerrillas in Argentina during the late 1960s and the seventies?
• What was the origin of the “Zapatistas” movement in Mexico?
• What was the relationship between the state and trade unions in the region during the last decades of the twentieth century?
• What has driven the upsurge in social movements in recent decades?

Activity 3: The Church

Reading

Read “Thy Kingdom Come: The Church” (pp. 232–246) in Green and Branford’s Faces of Latin America.

Focus Questions for Reading

Use the following questions to guide your reading:

• What were the main factors in the relationship between the Church and the Spanish and Portuguese crowns by the time of the conquest and colonization?
• What was the impact on the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America of the political and social climate by the late 1950s and sixties?
• What were the Base Christian Communities? What was their role in Latin America, and what was their link with liberation theology?
• Explain the role and the actions of evangelism in Latin America, the factors that led to its growth, and its links with politics.

 

Pages:
4 pages (1100 words) Double spaced

Type of paper:
Essay (any type) Undergraduate (yrs. 1-2)

Discipline:
History

Title:
HUMN 3981 A3

Sources to be cited:
6

Paper format:
MLA

Paper instructions:
I strongly recommend you can read the sample before you start to write. Thanks. Part A: Short Critical Reflections (30 marks) Select one assigned reading from Section 1 and one from Section 2 in Module 3 (for a total of two of the assigned readings). Choose the readings in Green and Branford’s textbook (in the attachment) or the online resources. I uploaded section 1 and section 2 readings in the files. There is only 1 reading under the section 1 (named “the state and the military”). Also, there are some readings belonging to section 2 (I cannot download them), so I put the links of them here: (((1. Nicola Bullard’s article “Before, They Killed Us with Guns, Now They Do It with Hunger” in Focus on the Global South at http://focusweb.org/publications/2002/before-they-killed-us-with-guns.htm. 2. Marie Trigona’s article “Argentine Social Movements: Taking Matters into Their Own Hands” in Americas Program at http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/1592. 3. John Holloway and Eloina Pelaez’s introduction to “Zapatista!: Reinventing Revolution in Mexico” in Körotonomedya at http://www.korotonomedya.net/kor/index.php?id=10%2C46%2C0%2C0%2C1%2C0 4. James Petras’s article “The New Revolutionary Peasantry” in Rebelión at http://www.rebelion.org/hemeroteca/petras/english/newpeasantry170102.htm 5. Yvonne Zimmermann’s article “Interview with Evo Morales” in The Commoner at http://www.commoner.org.uk/morales1.htm))). Choose two assigned readings (one from section 1 and one from section 2) and then write a short critical reflection (about 150–250 words) for each (a total of two critical reflections). You may find it helpful to use one or more of the focus questions included in the activity as a guide. The critical reflection should present your own thoughts and responses to the reading. It is not simply a summary of the reading. Begin with a brief summary of the reading. Identify which key points and ideas you agree with, and explain why. Identify which key points and ideas you disagree with, and explain why. If you think the reading is dated, feel free to update it from your general knowledge or other research. Compare how the ideas discussed in the reading have relevance to Canada or other countries or regions. Thus, it is an interaction between the ideas in the reading and your own interpretation and response to what you have read. Part B: Essay (70 marks) Write an essay of 750–1000 words on one of the following topics: 1. Select a country in Latin America and discuss how its domestic and foreign policies have changed in the last two decades compared with the period after the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. Provide reasons as to why these have changed and base your answer on documented evidence. 2. Compare the economic policies introduced by US supported military dictators in the 1970s in two selected countries of South America. What common patterns do you find between those policies? Could those policies have been implemented by democratic governments? 3. Select one of the grassroots social movements in a Latin American country that you studied in this module, and discuss its origins, composition, trajectory, and the issue that brought it to life. In your opinion, has this social movement achieved any degree of success? Has it faced failure and why? Base your answer on documented evidence. 4. Consider what you learned in Modules 1 and 2 and what you have learned about social movements in this module, and write an essay discussing how the economic policies introduced since the 1970s and earlier affected indigenous peoples. Why has the fate of the indigenous people of Latin America been so similar to those of Canada, the US, and Australia?

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