Skimm for week of Nov 21
Quote of the Day: “The friendships we’ve established with countries like Peru, the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba, investments we’re making in trade, environmental policies and so forth — all those things I expect to continue,” says a very…
Skim for October 24th
Quote of the Day: “The problem with Mexico’s political system is that each time we have elections, one side declares in advance the illegitimate nature of the rules and therefore refuses to accept the results.” -Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo,…
Transitions to Democracy in the Post-Cold War Era
Post 1978 democratization presents different theories than we learned in week 5 with respect to pre-cold war era. I found these readings more interesting because the theories were much more complex, which I think more appropriate when explaining many countries at once….
Transitions to Democracy from Authoritarianism
The common theme among this week’s article is that Latin American countries were able to move to a Democratic structure. Different arguments as to why emerge as the three articles get more in-depth. As a quick summary, Hunter uses military force to…
International Contexts
The School of the Americas very much eludes to the idea of Isolationism when it comes to the US and foreign military affairs. If not even to that extreme, Gill seems to blame all of Latin American struggles on the…