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Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

Honduras is currently going through its presidential election. Salvador Nasralla, a former television host and sports journalist, is running against the incumbent Juan Orlando Hernández. Supporters of b […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

It is clear after reading the article that the Virgin of Carmen festival plays an incredibly important role in community identity for the Cabaneños. For Cabaneños abroad, the funding, planning, participation in, a […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

This was a long article with lots of information, so I will try to sum it up as best I can. Dr. Esperanza Cerón, head of the organization Educar Consumidores, was working to promote a tax on sugary drinks t […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

Currently, Argentina is having some issues with its flights. Two different airlines, Austral Líneas Aéreas and Aerolíneas Argentinas (a state-run airline), are dealing with strikes from workers demanding salary […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

My peer reviewer mentioned a few things about my sources which I think are incredibly important. Dr. Holt noted that two of my sources are not very scholarly though they have interesting information. My peer […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

In this chapter, Rivera-Rideau argues that the racialization of reggaetón creates negative stereotypes that apply to all people of Latin American descent. The author seems to be incredibly frustrated with the way […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

A man believed to be a leader of the Mara Salvatrucha (aka MS-13) gang has been arrested in Guatemala recently. Ángel Gabriel Reyes Marroquín, or Blanco, as he is known, was found in a town 31 miles west of Gu […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

Read the posts by Brooks and Kyrsten on the current crisis Puerto Rico and how it is being handled by the American government and American celebrities.

Discussion Questions:

How does the response time of […]
Joseph commented on the post, Wikipedia Article Edits, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

Keira,

I think your best bet may be to focus specifically on FARC as a rebel group instead of as a political party. From the little I know about FARC, it seems as though they have not worked hard to make the […]
Joseph commented on the post, Tackling Wikipedia Articles, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

Cesar,

I love your topic! For one of my Noticias posts I actually wrote about how 10 members of an indigenous group had been brutally murdered by some Brazilian miners. Now, obviously you’ve chosen to focus on […]
Joseph commented on the post, Fashion Trends in Latin America, on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

I think you have found an incredibly interesting topic indeed. My only concern is that you may find it difficult to talk about the many different types and styles of clothing that originated in Latin America. I […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

I may be able to complete my Wikipedia assignment on this article about Sports in the Dominican Republic. In the baseball section there is a lot of good information about the history of baseball in the country. […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 7 years ago

A location scout by the name of Carlos Muñoz Portal has been found dead in Mexico. He was scouting for locations to shoot scenes for the popular Netflix show ‘Narcos’. The 37 year old’s body was found riddled […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 8 years ago

The rights of Indigenous peoples in Latin America
The prevalence of baseball in Latin America, specifically the Dominican Republic

With the first topic, I look to continue researching what I learned from […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 8 years ago

Darlington, Shasta. “‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Reported Killed in Brazil.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 10 Sept. 2017, http://www.nyti […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 8 years ago

According to the Mexican historian Andrés Reséndez, the four travelers “felt greatly disturbed and saddened that other Christians had already reached these remote lands and were causing so much harm to the n […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 8 years ago

I agree with Reséndez’s arguments about culture and hospitality because each group of natives treated the outsiders differently, based on the circumstances. The outsiders became enslaved by the natives on the […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 8 years ago

The Wikipedia article on Estevanico seemed like it was of decent quality. I would say that everything in the article is relevant. It has four subsections after the main introduction: Estevanico’s Early Life, his N […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 8 years ago

In the introduction of A Land So Strange, Résendez gives a brief description of Cabeza de Vaca’s journey and its consequences in historical and modern times respectively. Cabeza de Vaca, two other Spaniards, and E […]
Joseph wrote a new post on the site Encounters and Identities in Latin America 8 years ago

From my perspective, historian William Cronon’s main argument was, in simple terms, that the goal of a liberal education is ‘only connect’. Throughout the article, he lists a series of ten qualities that he […]
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