Assignment 8

Blog. In 100 words describe the set of ideas, facts or events that most opened your eyes. That is, describe what you will remember most about what you learned in the course.

Assignment 7

BLOG. Please post your blog contribution between 5 pm Friday, April 15 and 5 pm Saturday, April 16.

Blog.

Describe your understanding of Socialism and your opinion of it.

Then, Wikipedia “Socialism,” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) and read the first five paragraphs (ending with the Table of Contents). Create a question about Socialism to which you would like an answer.

Use as many (or as few) words as you want.

Assignment 6

The Blog assignment follows from the Wiki assignment. Do the Wiki first. Then having identified the intervention(s) or military operation assigned to you, do some research. Google the most recent intervention into the country you are assigned, or the military operation. Do some research on the Web. Try to learn how the people of the country into which the US intervened felt about it. What would be their explanation for the intervention or military operation. Then adopt the perspective of a Latin American nationalist (draw from this week’s readings in MLAH), and write a 100 word contribution to the blog describing why the US intervened as it did.

The pairings for this week with the assigned country or military operation are:

[10+21]-Haiti; [5+20]-Operation Condor; [4+15]-Mexico;

[17+18]- Nicaragua; [11+13]-Operation Charly; [2+9]- Guatemala;

[14+24]- El Salvador; [7+22]-Iran-Contra; [6+23]-Chile;

[12+19]-Brazil; [3+8]-Uruguay.

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Be sure to take to heart the words Juan Jose Arevalo wrote at the top of page 176, MLAH.

“Neither does this book [or me] seek to cast blame on the North American people – who, like us, are victims of an imperialist policy of promoting business, multiplying markets, and hoarding money.”