Etiqueta: Latin America
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20 – Militant Latin American secret groups in the US
El contenido aborda la historia de operaciones encubiertas y terrorismo en Estados Unidos, especialmente en el contexto de exiliados cubanos en Miami. Se tocan temas como la Operación Condor, ataques terroristas, implicaciones de la CIA y el FBI y la coddling de grupos terroristas. Se plantea la doble moral del gobierno estadounidense a través de…
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21 – Anglo immigration to Latin America and Latino immigration to the US
El contenido aborda la historia de la inmigración en Estados Unidos, analizando cómo los factores raciales influyeron en las leyes migratorias desde 1790 hasta 1965. También se destaca la percepción errónea de la criminalidad entre inmigrantes, mostrando que los índices de delito han disminuido en áreas con alta población inmigrante. Además, se discuten las contribuciones…
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15: Latin American military coups during the 60s and 70s.
This is just a simplified guide. The questions are not central to the discussion in this class, but rather basic starting points. Prof. Jorge Majfud Brazil 1964, Argentina 1966, etc. Right Wing Paramilitarism. Operation Condor. Mockingbird Operation. Left Wing Guerrilla groups. Montoneros, FARC US Veterans For Peace: (sumary) veteransforpeace.org/ Gen. William P. Yarborough: «A concerted…
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10 – Peronism in Argentina Juan Domingo Perón and Eva Duarte de Perón
The content discusses the history and impact of Peronism in Argentina, exploring its founding leaders, achievements, and failures under President Perón post-World War II. It highlights U.S. interference, particularly Ambassador Braden’s role, shaping anti-Peronism and supporting military coups while delving into broader themes of class struggle, political repression, and foreign influence on Latin America’s democratic…
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9 – US occupation of Caribbean and Central American countries. Banana republics.(1900 – 1930)
The content explores U.S. interventions in Latin America from 1900 to 1930, focusing on military and economic exploitation, particularly during the «Banana Wars.» It highlights events like the massacre of banana workers in Colombia, General Smedley Butler’s critique of U.S. foreign policy, and various dictatorships supported by Washington in Central America, ultimately illustrating imperialistic motives…
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The emperor has no clothes
In a 2007 back cover of Página12, we reflected on the ideolexical concept of being right-wing: «Twenty or thirty years ago in the Southern Cone, it was enough to declare yourself a leftist to go to prison or lose your life in a torture session (…). Being right-wing was not only politically correct but also…
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The logic of reactionary waves in Latin America
When the United States fell into the worst economic depression in its history, it withdrew its military occupation forces from several countries in the Caribbean and Central America. In their place, it installed puppets, all chosen for the same psychological characteristic: they were psychopaths desperate to flatter those in power in order to be protected…
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The Wild Frontier: 200 Years of Anglo-Saxon Fanaticism in Latin America
«Simply powerful.» Noam ChomskyThe Wild Frontier is a book written with courage and dazzling lucidity. One of the best I’ve ever read.» Víctor Hugo MoralesFifty years after the publication of How to Read Donald Duck, I am pleased to read a book like The Wild Frontier that explores in detail the less subtle ways in which the United States, for two…
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Southern Cone Dictatorships: The Silent Generation as Fiction and Reflection
Interview with Uruguayan American author Jorge Majfud by Brazilian journalist Raúl Fitipaldi Raúl Fitipaldi: In this Great Homeland of political, social, and economic exiles due to imperialism and capitalism, how were our childhoods condemned? Jorge Majfud: As in every one of the tragedies that have struck different peoples on different continents, there is a generation…
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On the dehumanization of poor immigrants
The struggle for immigrant rights highlights systemic discrimination driven by global inequality. Poor migrants face demonization, while the wealthy exploit resources and evade scrutiny. Historical injustices compel migration, leading to criminalization of the victims. As certain nations uphold their privileges, solidarity and moral advocacy for human rights aim to challenge this entrenched oppression.
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Eduardo Galeano
“The Hoariest of Latin American Conspiracy Theorists” Although I would say that the article “The Land of Too Many Summits” by Christopher Sabatini (Foreign Affairs, April 12, 2012) is right on some points, it nonetheless fails to give little more than unproved opinions on other matters — or as Karl Popper would say, certain…
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Interview on Crisis
Jorge Majfud applies his fractal vision to Latino immigrants By Susana Baumann / VOXXI News Thursday, May 10, 2012 Teacher, writer and novelist Jorge Majfud. (Photo/ Jacksonville University) Jorge Majfud is a writer, novelist and professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Jacksonville in Florida whose books — including his fourth, Crisis, to be…
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The Secular Nation-State and Latin American Catholicism
The emergence of the Secular Nation-State and Latin American Catholicism Edward J. Williams Comparative Politics, Vol. 5, Nº 2 (Jan., 1973), 261-277. University of New York. La importancia de este ensayo consiste, a mi juicio, en el momento de su publicación y en la perspectiva exterior que el autor tiene de la Iglesia Católica. Su…
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Libros y autores clásicos de la literatura uruguaya (según encuesta)
Jueves 26.05.2011 Eligen libro de Galeano como mejor espejo de la sociedad Los universitarios uruguayos consideran que «Las venas abiertas de América Latina», de Eduardo Galeano, es el libro que mejor representa a la sociedad. Y es también su libro preferido. Así lo reveló una encuesta realizada por la red de universidades «Universia» entre 601 estudiantes,…
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Ten Lashes Against Humanism
Diez azotes contra el humanismo (Spanish) Ten Lashes Against Humanism Jorge Majfud A minor tradition in conservative thought is the definition of the dialectical adversary as mentally deficient and lacking in morality. As this never constitutes an argument, the outburst is covered up with some fragmented and repetitious reasoning, proper to the postmodern thought…
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¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (II)
¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (I) What good is literature? (II) (English) À quoi sert la littérature ? (French) ¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (II) Cada tanto algún político, algún burócrata, algún inteligente inversor resuelve estrangular las humanidades con algún recorte en la educación, en algún ministerio de cultura o simplemente descargando toda la fuerza del mercado sobre…
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