Mesa Community College NACLA Report on the Americas Review Summary
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Please use both a title page and a works cited page (neither of these pages count toward your 3-4 pages of text).
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, President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, former President Trump, 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 April 29 due date. Just pick any one article from this list for your April 29 review. You will repeat the same process for your third review, on a South American nation, which is due on May 13. These articles range in date from February 2019 to April 2022. For this list, I’m going in alphabetical order by nation, starting with the Caribbean region first, and then Central America:
The Caribbean
Barbados:
Barbuda:
Cuba:
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A Ship Adrift: Cuba After the Pink Tide (Apr. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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Artists in Cuba Spearhead First Major Protest in Decades (Dec. 2020)
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Cuba: An American History Review (Book Review) (Nov. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Cuba Today: Homeland, People, and Sovereignty (July 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Cuban Memory Wars (Book Review) (May 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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“Don’t Throw the Sofa out the Window” Discussing Protests in Cuba (Aug. 2021)
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For Cuban Artists, Censure is the Norm (Jan. 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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Have You Heard, Comrade? The Socialist Revolution is Racist Too (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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J-11 in Cuba (July 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Mi Primera Tarea (Film Review) (Oct. 2020)
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On Cuba: Caricatures of the Left and the Absent Cuban People (Oct. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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On Sovereignties and Solidarities (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Religious Conservatism is Shaping the Civil Liberties Debate in Cuba (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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The Damaging “Middle Ground” Stance on Cuba (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution (Book Review) (Nov. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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The War on Cuba Documentary Tells the Story of the U.S. Embargo (Dec. 2020)
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Using Cuba’s Protests as a Chance to Denounce the Left (Aug. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Why Trump’s Cuba Policy is So Wrong (May 2019)
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With Cubans Speaking Out, How Will the Left Respond? (July 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Dominican Republic:
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Checkpoint Nation (March 2019)
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“I Am the Darker Brother”: Michèle Stephenson’s “Stateless” Documentary (Apr. 2021)
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Making the Dominican Republic Great Again? (March 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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Post-Electoral Crisis in the Dominican Republic (Interview) (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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The Right’s Continued Dominance in the Dominican Republic (Jan. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
Haiti:
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A Young Duvalier and Haiti’s Unremembered Past (Feb. 2019)
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After Moïse Assassination, Popular Sectors Must Lead the Way (July 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Behind the Covid Numbers in Haiti (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Building Corruption in Haiti (May 2019)
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Fighting for Survival, Building for Power (Apr. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Haiti at the Crossroads (March 2019)
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Haiti’s Earthquakes Require a Haitian Solution (Aug. 2021)
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Remembering Joane Florvil, Victim of Global Anti-Blackness (Sept. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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The Foreign Roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional Crisis” (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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The Political Anatomy of Haiti’s Armed Gangs (Apr. 2021)
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To Save Haitian Lives, Global Health Leaders Call for Solidarity (Dec. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Why Haiti Advocacy Needs New Strategies (March 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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Jamaica:
Puerto Rico:
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A Disastrous Methane Gas Scheme Threatens Puerto Rico’s Energy Future (June 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Adjunct Faculty in an Adjunct Country (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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Celebrating 50 Years of El Comité-MINP (Jan. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Doing Reggaetón However He Wants: Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG (Music Review) (March 2020)
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Making Livable Worlds (Book Review) (March 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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Mutual Aid and Survival as Resistance in Puerto Rico (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Policing is the Crisis (May 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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Puerto Rican People’s Assemblies Shift from Protest to Proposal (Aug. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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Puerto Rico 2021: A Shift in Perspective, A New Opposition (Dec. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Puerto Rico’s Seismic Shocks (Jan. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Puerto Rico and the Perpetual State of Emergency (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Step by Powerful Step, Citizens Lead Puerto Rico into Its Solar Future (Sept. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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The Anti-Corruption Code for the New Puerto Rico (May 2019)
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The Devastating Costs of Puerto Rico’s Solar “Farms” (Feb. 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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The Protests in Puerto Rico Are About Life and Death (July 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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The Summer 2019 Uprising: Building a New Puerto Rico (Oct. 2019)
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To My Fellow BoriBlancos: When We Say “Down with White Power,” We Also Mean Our White Power (Oct. 2020)
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Toxic Racism in Puerto Rico’s Sacrifice Zone (Sept. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Where is the State of Emergency? (June 2021) (Links to an external site.)
Trinidad and Tobago:
Central America
Belize
Costa Rica:
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Costa Rica: A Democracy on the Brink (Dec. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Costa Rica’s Covid-19 Response Scapegoats Nicaraguan Migrants (July 2020)
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Costa Rica’s Rush to the Right (Apr. 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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El Salvador:
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100 Days of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador: Social Movement Perspectives (Interview) (Sept. 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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Alejandro Molina Lara Fought for Workers’ Rights in El Salvador and the United States (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Building a Church of the Poor (Dec. 2020)
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Bukele Responds to Avalanche of International Criticism: “The People Voted for This” (May 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Confronting Internal Forced Displacement in El Salvador (Feb. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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Deportation Contagions (March 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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El Bukelazo: Shades of Dictatorship in El Salvador (Feb. 2020)
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Has Blood on His Hands (Feb. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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El Salvador’s Backslide (Feb. 2019)
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Left Out of Bukele’s Bitcoin Decision, Salvadorans Face Deepening Inequality (July 2021)
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Los Muertos y el Periodista (Book Review)(Apr. 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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Poets and Prophets of Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War (Book Review) (Aug. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman (Book Review) (Nov. 2019)
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The Value of a Volcano (Nov. 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue (March 2021) (Links to an external site.)
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Guatemala:
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25 Years After the Peace Accords, Democracy Weak in Guatemala (Jan. 2022) (Links to an external site.)
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A Dispatch From the Caravan (Feb. 2020) (Links to an external site.)
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A Victory for Guatemala’s Pacto de Corruptos (June 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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Defending Consultation: Indigenous Resistance Against the Escobal Mine in Guatemala (May 2019) (Links to an external site.)
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Democracy in Crisis in Guatemala (June 2019)
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