POL305Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Indigenous Peoples, New Imperialism, Liberty And Refoundation
18 Apr 2016
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Post 9/11 us priorities- promising to be a president to build ties with latin. America, this stopped after september 11, all energy, diplomatic, military, economic middle east. American being an actor in latin america- gets abandoned, there"s an opening for new governments. Major playing here- china, steps in, even canada- mining, extractive resources. Canadian international development agency- series of changes, as of now housed in department of foreign affairs and development. Now its under larger mission of security and trade. Reconfigure foreign policy to further interests of canadian businesses. Saw us embargo, has violation of human rights, counter productive, bad policy. One thing that kept castro in power, is the us embargo. It was bullyish, was in a bad sense. But pierre treadu- first to open up missions in latin america. Grassroots resistance and canada- lots of success of these movements against. Canadian mining projects- guatemala, most famous- case in canadian.
