1 8 nacla report on the americas review 1 assignment 3

For this assignment, you are to read current news articles about Latin America from the website for the North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA) and submit 2 written reviews during the semester. Please submit one review per due date. Each review is to be at least 3-4 pages and each due date corresponds to a regional topic in Latin America. I’ll explain further later in these instructions. The due dates for these reports are March 6 and April 10. Here are the regional topics corresponding to each due date:

• March 6: Mexico, Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Belize, or Panama), or the Caribbean region (any of the island nations or territories, like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, or Haiti)

• April 10: South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, or Paraguay)

To select the articles, click on any of the NACLA tags to see a page of various articles that you can access. For the first due date of March 6, select any one article from the following pages: Dominican Republic:

• Post-Electoral Crisis in the Dominican Republic (Interview) (Links to an external site.)

• The Right’s Continued Dominance in the Dominican Republic (Links to an external site.)

El Salvador:

• 100 Days of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador: Social Movement Perspectives (Interview) (Links to an external site.)

• Confronting Internal Forced Displacement in El Salvador (Links to an external site.)

• El Bukelazo: Shades of Dictatorship in El Salvador (Links to an external site.)

• The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman (Book Review) (Links to an external site.)

Guatemala:

• A Dispatch From the Caravan (Links to an external site.)

• Talking Like a Mining Company: The Escobal Mine in Guatemala (Links to an external site.)

Haiti:

• Building Corruption in Haiti (Links to an external site.)

• Shooting at Haitian Parliament Surprises Few as Anti-Government Protests Continue (Links to an external site.)

Honduras:

• Political Prisoners Released as Government’s Legitimacy Crumbles in Honduras (Interview) (Links to an external site.)

• The Flame of Opposition in Honduras (Links to an external site.)

• The Stain that Mardi Gras Covers Up: Worker Vulnerability in New Orleans (Links to an external site.)

Mexico and the Border:

• “A Project for Life” in Mexico City (Links to an external site.)

• Blurring the Division Between Church and State in AMLO’s Mexico (Links to an external site.)

• Clouds at the Border: Threatened by the Wall (Links to an external site.)

• “Green Tide” Reaches Mexico as Oaxaca Decriminalizes Abortion (Links to an external site.)

• In Mexico, the Threats and Failures of Pre-Trial Detention (Links to an external site.)

• Machista Media Get it Wrong on Feminist Protests in Mexico (Interview) (Links to an external site.)

• Maquiladoras and the Exploitation of Migrants on the Border (Links to an external site.)

• Mexican Women Call on Government to End Violence (Links to an external site.)

• Mining Culture Wars Escalate in Oaxaca (Links to an external site.)

• Revisiting the Battle of Culiacán (Links to an external site.)

• The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Book Review) (Links to an external site.)

• The Deadly Reverberations of U.S. Border Policy (Book Review) (Links to an external site.)

• The Legacy of Samir Flores, One Year Later (Links to an external site.)

Nicaragua:

• The Anti-Sandinista Youth of Nicaragua (Links to an external site.)

• The Sandinista Labor Paradox (Links to an external site.)

Puerto Rico:

• Adjunct Faculty in an Adjunct Country (Links to an external site.)

• Puerto Rico’s Seismic Shocks (Links to an external site.)

• Step by Powerful Step, Citizens Lead Puerto Rico into Its Solar Future (Links to an external site.)

• The Summer 2019 Uprising: Building a New Puerto Rico

(UPDATE: To select articles go to the General Forum; unfortunately these article tags are not working)

Please submit your reports through Canvas in either of the following formats: doc, docx or PDF (if you are using Apple Pages to compose your review, please be sure to convert your paper to docx or PDF before submitting it). Late papers will be accepted for each submission, but only for one week after the assigned due dates and will be assessed a full grade deduction. Please use both a title page and a works cited page (neither of these pages count toward your 3-4 pages of text). These 2 reports will count as a combined 15% toward your final grade. In your works cited page, compose your article entry in a format like this:

Nidia Bautista, “Justice for Lesvy: Indifference and Outrage in Response to Gender Violence in Mexico City,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (July 31, 2017).

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. Enrique Peña Nieto, Nicolás Maduro, Mauricio Macri, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Andres Manuel López Obrador, Jair Bolsonaro, President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, 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? In other words, please try to be as objective as possible during this portion of the assignment.

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 or the Americas in general? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article?