Skimm #2

The Story On Monday, current the current Paraguayan President, Horacio Cartes, announced that he would not be running for reelection in the 2018 election due to recent riots. The riots were fueled after the President as well as the Senate…

Marginalized Groups

Gender Gaps and Indigenous Groups             For many decades, Latin American’s have consistently faced political and social challenges, which has caused them to essentially take matters into their own hands. The two readings by Morgan and Van Cott look at…

Skimm #1

Skimm #1 The Story On Sunday, a Mexican newspaper company near Juarez decided to shut down after one of their journalists was violently killed. The victim, Miroslava Breach, was shot because of her reporting on corruption within the Mexican government….

Social Inequality & Economic Development

In the article “The Latin American Experience”, Fukuyama lists off multiple factors that contribute to the inequality we see around the world, specifically in Latin America. As European and Asian countries continue to develop and become more equal, Latin American…

Democratic Transitions: Latin America

Magaloni’s The Demise of Mexico’s One-Party Dominant Regime provides an insight into the breakdown of one of the strongest autocratic groups in history, the Mexican Partido Revoucionario Institucional (PRI), as well as the creation of democracy in the Mexican government….