History 115—section 5584Summer session 2022Professor Oscar CañedoGuidelines for NACLA assignment #1
For this assignment, you are to read current news articles about Latin America from the website for the North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA) and submit two short reviews during the session.
Here are the regional topics corresponding to each due date:
June 24: Mexico, the Caribbean(Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, etc.), and
Central America
(Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and
Belize
).ON your works cited page, compose your article entry in a format like this:
Hilary Goodfriend, “El Bukelazo: Shades of Dictatorship in El Salvador,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (February 19, 2020).
In terms of the content of each report, I am looking for two main points of discussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points in the article that you selected. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What is the main issue being discussed? (i.e. immigration, elections, education, environment, women’s issues, crime, etc.) Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? (i.e. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President Biden, Vice-President Harris, etc.) How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? What do you think could be the best solution to resolve this problem?
And for the second point of discussion, please analyze the article that you selected and present your point of view on the story. For example, how do you feel about the story? How did this article contribute to your understanding about modern Latin America? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article? How does this topic relate to contemporary political, economic or cultural themes in the United States today?
Here is a list of articles from the NACLA website pertaining to regions for the June 25 due date. Everybody, just pick any one article from this list for your June 24 review. You will repeat the same process for your July 9 review on a South American nation. These articles range in date from February 2019 through early 2022.
Mexico:
- 23 Years of Impunity for Perpetrators of Acteal Massacre (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- A Labor Spring for Mexico’s Maquilas? (March 2019)
- A License to Pollute at Fortuna Silver Mines in Oaxaca (March 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- “A Project for Life” in Mexico City (Jan. 2020)
- An Independent Union Wins Landslide Victory Among Mexican GM Workers (Feb. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- As Mexican Pork Industry Expands, Environmental Concerns Follow (Sept. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- AMLO Pushes Ahead on Militarized Megaprojects (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- AMLO’s Crumbling Promise to Migrants (July 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Blurring the Division Between Church and State in AMLO’s Mexico (Feb. 2020)
- Downtown Juárez (Book Review) (March 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- El Chapo and Mexico’s Drug War Spectacle (March 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Euphemisms of Violence: Child Migrants and the Mexican State (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- For Mexico’s Striking University Workers, A War of Attrition Over Public Education (July 2019)
- For Mexico City Housing Movement, Metro Collapse is the Latest Symptom of Structural Inequity (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- “Green Tide” Reaches Mexico as Oaxaca Decriminalizes Abortion (Oct. 2019)
- Health and Economic Crisis in Mexico Hits Informal Sector Workers (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico (Book Review) (July 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- In Mexico, the Threats and Failures of Pre-Trial Detention (Jan. 2020)
- In Tapachula, Thousands of Haitian Migrants Wait to Be Resettled (Jan. 2022)Links to an external site.
- Indigenous Communities in Mexico Take up Arms to Defend the Monarch Forest (March 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Julián Leyzaola’s Dangerous Plans for Tijuana (May 2019)
- La Encrucijada’s Dilemma: Greenwashing Oil Palm in Chiapas (Apr. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- López Obrador’s Public Enemy Number One (Feb. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Machista Media Get it Wrong on Feminist Protests in Mexico (Interview) (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Maquiladoras and the Exploitation of Migrants on the Border (Oct. 2019)
- Maya Activist Groups Fight to Protect Indigenous Territorial Rights (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site.
- Mexican Police Who Massacred Guatemalan Migrants Get Their Guns from the U.S. (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Mexican Women Call on Government to End Violence (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Mexico Bans Glysophate But Tolerates Other Agrochemicals (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- Mexico Labor Reform May not be Enough for Auto Logistics Workers (July 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- Mexico’s Fracking Impasse (Oct. 2020)
- Mexico’s Military Knew Ayotzinapa 43 Were Kidnapped, Then Covered It Up (Apr. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- Mining Culture Wars Escalate in Oaxaca (Dec. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Narcos Mexico Is Not the Education We Need (Television Review) (March 2020)
- October 2 and the CIA in Mexico (Oct. 2021)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy (May 2019)
- Oaxaca Fisherwomen Organize to Protect Their Way of Life (June 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Pandemic Intensifies Women’s Struggle for Water in Oaxaca, Mexico (July 2020)
- Power and Spectacle on Mexico’s Southern Border (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Revisiting the Battle of Culiacán (Nov. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- The Legacy of Samir Flores, One Year Later (Feb. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- The Rebirth of Mexico’s Electrical Workers (Feb. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- The Search for Answers in Mexico (Apr. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Today We Protest, Tomorrow We Strike (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Translating the Fourth Transformation (Interview) (Apr. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Twenty-First Century Battlefields (Book Excerpt) (July 2019)
The Caribbean
Barbados:
- Caribbean Food Sovereignty During Covid-19 (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
Barbuda:
- After Irma, Disaster Capitalism Threatens Cultural Heritage in Barbuda (Feb. 2019)(Links to an external site.)
Cuba:
- A Ship Adrift: Cuba After the Pink Tide (Apr. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Artists in Cuba Spearhead First Major Protest in Decades (Dec. 2020)
- Cuba: An American History Review (Book Review) (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
- Cuba Today: Homeland, People, and Sovereignty (July 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- Cuban Memory Wars (Book Review) (May 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- “Don’t Throw the Sofa out the Window” Discussing Protests in Cuba (Aug. 2021)
- For Cuban Artists, Censure is the Norm (Jan. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- Have You Heard, Comrade? The Socialist Revolution is Racist Too (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- (Links to an external site.)J-11 in Cuba (July 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Mi Primera Tarea (Film Review) (Oct. 2020)
- On Cuba: Caricatures of the Left and the Absent Cuban People (Oct. 2021)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- On Sovereignties and Solidarities (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Religious Conservatism is Shaping the Civil Liberties Debate in Cuba (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- The Damaging “Middle Ground” Stance on Cuba (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution (Book Review) (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- The War on Cuba Documentary Tells the Story of the U.S. Embargo (Dec. 2020)
- Using Cuba’s Protests as a Chance to Denounce the Left (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Why Trump’s Cuba Policy is So Wrong (May 2019)
- With Cubans Speaking Out, How Will the Left Respond? (July 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Dominican Republic:
- Checkpoint Nation (March 2019)
- “I Am the Darker Brother”: Michèle Stephenson’s “Stateless” Documentary (Apr. 2021)
- Making the Dominican Republic Great Again? (March 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Post-Electoral Crisis in the Dominican Republic (Interview) (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- The Right’s Continued Dominance in the Dominican Republic (Jan. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
Haiti:
- A Young Duvalier and Haiti’s Unremembered Past (Feb. 2019)
- After Moïse Assassination, Popular Sectors Must Lead the Way (July 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Behind the Covid Numbers in Haiti (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Building Corruption in Haiti (May 2019)
- Fighting for Survival, Building for Power (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Haiti at the Crossroads (March 2019)
- Haiti’s Earthquakes Require a Haitian Solution (Aug. 2021)
- Remembering Joane Florvil, Victim of Global Anti-Blackness (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- The Foreign Roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional Crisis” (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- (Links to an external site.)The Political Anatomy of Haiti’s Armed Gangs (Apr. 2021)
- To Save Haitian Lives, Global Health Leaders Call for Solidarity (Dec. 2021)Links to an external site.
- Links to an external site.Why Haiti Advocacy Needs New Strategies (March 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Jamaica:
- Rethinking Sargassum Seaweed: Could It Be the New Normal in Jamaica? (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
Puerto Rico:
- A Disastrous Methane Gas Scheme Threatens Puerto Rico’s Energy Future (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Adjunct Faculty in an Adjunct Country (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Celebrating 50 Years of El Comité-MINP (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- Doing Reggaetón However He Wants: Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG (Music Review) (March 2020)
- Making Livable Worlds (Book Review) (March 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- Mutual Aid and Survival as Resistance in Puerto Rico (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Policing is the Crisis (May 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Puerto Rican People’s Assemblies Shift from Protest to Proposal (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Puerto Rico 2021: A Shift in Perspective, A New Opposition (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Puerto Rico’s Seismic Shocks (Jan. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Puerto Rico and the Perpetual State of Emergency (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Step by Powerful Step, Citizens Lead Puerto Rico into Its Solar Future (Sept. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- The Anti-Corruption Code for the New Puerto Rico (May 2019)
- The Devastating Costs of Puerto Rico’s Solar “Farms” (Feb. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- The Protests in Puerto Rico Are About Life and Death (July 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- The Summer 2019 Uprising: Building a New Puerto Rico (Oct. 2019)
- To My Fellow BoriBlancos: When We Say “Down with White Power,” We Also Mean Our White Power (Oct. 2020)
- Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site.
- Where is the State of Emergency? (June 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Trinidad and Tobago:
- Toppling the Colonizers in Trinidad and Tobago (June 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Central AmericaBelize
- In Belize, a Win for Black Dockworkers (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
Costa Rica:
- Costa Rica: A Democracy on the Brink (Dec. 2021)Links to an external site.
- Costa Rica’s Covid-19 Response Scapegoats Nicaraguan Migrants (July 2020)
- Costa Rica’s Rush to the Right (Apr. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
El Salvador:
- 100 Days of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador: Social Movement Perspectives (Interview) (Sept. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Alejandro Molina Lara Fought for Workers’ Rights in El Salvador and the United States (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
- Building a Church of the Poor (Dec. 2020)
- Bukele Responds to Avalanche of International Criticism: “The People Voted for This” (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Confronting Internal Forced Displacement in El Salvador (Feb. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Deportation Contagions (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- El Bukelazo: Shades of Dictatorship in El Salvador (Feb. 2020)
- El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Has Blood on His Hands (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- El Salvador’s Backslide (Feb. 2019)
- Left Out of Bukele’s Bitcoin Decision, Salvadorans Face Deepening Inequality (July 2021)
- Los Muertos y el Periodista (Book Review)(Apr. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Poets and Prophets of Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War (Book Review) (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman (Book Review) (Nov. 2019)
- The Value of a Volcano (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
- Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue (March 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Guatemala:
- 25 Years After the Peace Accords, Democracy Weak in Guatemala (Jan. 2022)Links to an external site.
- A Dispatch From the Caravan (Feb. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- A Victory for Guatemala’s Pacto de Corruptos (June 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Defending Consultation: Indigenous Resistance Against the Escobal Mine in Guatemala (May 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Democracy in Crisis in Guatemala (June 2019)
- Dianna Ortiz, Survivor and Witness of the Guatemalan Genocide (1958-2021) (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Guatemala: Impunity for War Criminals, Again (Feb. 2019)
- Guatemala Cracks Down on Q’eqchi’ Resistance in El Estor (Nov. 2021)Links to an external site.
- Guatemala on Trial: Maya Land Rights Case Reaches International Court (Feb. 2022)Links to an external site.
- Guatemala’s National Strike Demands Structural Change (Sept. 2021)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.)
- Guatemalan Child Refugees, Then and Now (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Guatemalans Have Had Enough (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- “History Moves Forward. You Cannot Go Back:” An Interview with Judge Yassmín Barrios (May 2019)
- Historical Memory in the Digital Age (June 2021)
- In Guatemala, Ex-Paramilitaries Face Trial for Wartime Rape of Indigenous Women (Jan. 2022)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- In Guatemala, Finding a Voice in Indigenous Community Radio (July 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- In Guatemala, Out with the Old, In with the Older (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- In Guatemala, Resignations are Not Enough (Dec. 2020)
- In Guatemala, Will Old Foreign Policies Bring New Results? (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- Indigenous Guatemalan Journalist Faces Charges after Reporting on Protest (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Is Guatemala a “Safe Third Country” for Disposable People? (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Officials Conceal Conditions at Guatemala Mental Health Hospital During Pandemic (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Remembering Guatemala’s Martyr of Justice: An Interview with Francisco Goldman (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- Sex Workers Unionize in Guatemala (Feb. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- Talking Like a Mining Company: The Escobal Mine in Guatemala (Oct. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
- The Garífuna Voices of Guatemala’s Armed Conflict (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
- U.S. Archeologist Seeks to Privatize Maya Historic Sites in the Name of Conservation (Aug. 2020)
- “We Are Here by Force”: Maya Ixil Activists Fight for Asylum and Justice (May 2021) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
- White Flags as Guatemalans Grow Hungry (May 2020) (Links to an external site.)
Honduras:
Verdict Forthcoming for Military Intelli