Study resources, news and commentaries on Latin America

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Required Reading:

http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/

For anyone who wants to understand military-civilian coups in Latin America, this comprehensive blog of quality is the one to go for.

Starting from Day 1, two US anthropologiests has been on recording news, providing commentary, putting what honduras and rest of latin america thinks about the Honduras coup in 2009.

For those of you doing GV241---This source will be handy for your spring essay.

Monday, 3 January 2011

Latin America Economy (Part I)

Whilst i am working on a summary for the overview to Latin America, from post-independence to 1930s, here's the economic part of 1910s - 30s, covering both world wars and Great Depression.
It should be noted, though, the Great Depression in LAC is a social-political affair more than an economic affair. This will change when we come to 1970s - 1980s, when Bureaucratic-Authoritarian(BA) regimes are founded more on economic issues, with political coming a close second.

In case you are confused, this is an economic powerpoint, so the next economic powerpoint is about Chicago boy. But topic-wise, we are going into the political side of Great depression.

For now, here's the economic sides of Great Depression. The political side of Great Depression will come next.

ISI