POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: North American Congress On Latin America
13 May 2018
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POLI319: Wednesday January 10th, 2018
Current Events
- NACLA report on the Americas
- OH: Wednesdays and Fridays 1:00 – 2:30 pm in Leacock 528
- Check for conferences to register
- Midterm: In class, Feb. 23rd
- Research Essay: 10-12 double spaced pages, topics posted Feb 2nd, due April 6th
- Final Exam: during Final Exam period
- will talk about Latin America and the Caribbean
Key Themes
- starts with pre-colonial era, focusing on 20th and 21st centuries
- Cold War and the post-Cold War, US’s role in Latin America
- transitions to democracy in the final decade of Cold War and after Cold War
- looking at Latin American democracies and who they represent
Key Theme: Inequality
- Colonization about the haves and have nots (who gets the resources and who gets the
resources taken away from them)
- In Latin American countries, there is an elite who concentrates a lot of power and wealth in its
own hands
- There is also an extremely poor under class with virtually no middle class
- Either born into poverty and stay there or born rich and stay rich, no upward mobility
Key Theme: Violence
- Inequality is a huge trigger for violence according to many political theorists
- Latin America is regarded by the UN as the most violent region in the world
- Homicide rate is extremely high, more violence than in the African region
- Origi of this ass societal violece is i part rooted i the society’s history
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Document Summary
Oh: wednesdays and fridays 1:00 2:30 pm in leacock 528. Research essay: 10-12 double spaced pages, topics posted feb 2nd, due april 6th. Will talk about latin america and the caribbean. Starts with pre-colonial era, focusing on 20th and 21st centuries. Cold war and the post-cold war, us"s role in latin america. Transitions to democracy in the final decade of cold war and after cold war. Looking at latin american democracies and who they represent. Colonization about the haves and have nots (who gets the resources and who gets the resources taken away from them) In latin american countries, there is an elite who concentrates a lot of power and wealth in its own hands. There is also an extremely poor under class with virtually no middle class. Either born into poverty and stay there or born rich and stay rich, no upward mobility. Inequality is a huge trigger for violence according to many political theorists.
