How Does Guevara's Legacy Influence Latin American Society?

The motivation behind US endeavors during the Cold War was to interfere with Latin American countries politically to counter the spread of communist ideologies that were seen by the US as being directly opposed to its economic and philosophical interests. The US’ economic interests were spread and consolidated through corporations operating within Latin America such as Alcoa, United Fruit, and others. It is through these corporate interests, which were under threat of nationalizion in their respective countries by leftist governments taking hold, that the US justified much of its involvement toppling governments in the region.

Chavez achieves his main purpose to persuade to support his view on nonviolent resistance. He does this by not only using many examples, but to challenge the reader into thinking deeper into the lines of his speech. By doing so, as well as using his many rhetorical strategies throughout, Chavez becomes very effective in his

Immediately following the thesis of the article, how nonviolent practices have matured, Chavez introduces the premise. The premise is an appeal to authority, a rhetoric which is usually a fallacy. Chavez, however, appeals to the authority of God. Because of this, the premise is not a fallacy, as there are people who believe in God. Twice Chavez appeals to authority, as later in the epitaph he appeals to the authority of Gandhi who is seen as the greatest role model in civil disobedience and nonviolent protests.

The article “Paraguay’s Archive of Terror: International Cooperation and Operation Condor” by Katie Zoglin centers around the way in which the Southern Cone countries, with a specific focus on Paraguay, dealt with political opponents. The article was written in the period of winter-spring in 2001. This is significant because the article is also from the American Law Review at Miami University in a period just after the 9/11 attacks. This could affect some of the ideas about military governments and intelligence, being as the U.S. would likely be concerned with these ideas right after a terrorist attack. However, since the article is about Latin America, the influence of 9/11 might not be significant in this particular case.

Chavez appeals to his readers sense of religious duty when he mentions that God mandates life, “Our conviction is that human life is a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take it for any reason or for any cause.” Not only does this instill a sense of duty for his religious readers but also by depicting violence as vile and horrible he persuades this with even a tiny bit of humanity that nonviolent resistance is the most moral and humane way to bring change about. Later in Chavez appeal to

On January 1, 2004, over one thousand people in the mountain hamlet of Oventic, Chiapas, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) rebellion with song and dance. Thus, it seems a fitting time to take stock of the successes and failures of the Zapatista movement in the context of its original goals. While the EZLN has been able to establish thirty eight autonomous indigenous communities in Chiapas, it has failed to weaken the Mexican government's commitment to neo-liberal economic policies. In the following pages, we will explore those factors which enabled the Zapatistas to establish regions of autonomy and extrapolate from Theotonio Dos

By depicting a sense of morals, Chavez is able to support the nature of nonviolence over any other possibility. The simplicity put into a single civil movement, allows for millions to participate from all across the country. The American people “yearn for justice,” and it is such yearning that appeals to such large crowds. Chavez also states that nonviolence “provides the opportunity to stay on the offensive.” By doing so, there is an advantage over the opposing side. Once escalated and turned violent, there is a “total demoralization” of the causae. In order to remain as morally good as the cause being fought, Chavez demonstrates how nonviolence would accomplish such.

Galeano portrays this moment in Latin American history as the instant U.S investors took control over the industries. He details the dangers they went through when producing one item to export for the benefit of foreigners, and how they later imported the processed goods from those same foreign countries, injecting money only overseas. The fact that Latin America needed imports to survive initiated the imperial link the U.S has upon it. As stated by Galeano, “The growing dependence on foreign supplies produces the growing identification of the interest of U.S. capitalists operating in Latin America with U.S. national security”11, bluntly showing the relationship between the United States and Latin America. “With petroleum, as with coffee or meat, rich countries profit more from the work of consuming it than do poor countries from the work of producing it”12. Because profit was not being retained in the Latin American countries, nationalization of the industries became of importance. The United States offered intervention in order to protect everyone’s interests with the proposal of free trade, but this was no more than another manipulation to continue having power over Latin America and its resources: “Latin America’s big ports, through which the wealth of its soil and subsoil passed en route to distant centers of power, were being built as instruments of the conquest and domination of the countries to which they belonged, and as conduits

"Fueled by the Cold War and transnational corporate interests, the U.S. has covertly tinkered with the governments of Latin American countries since World War 2, producing an extremely violent and unstable political climate."

The people of Chile had a very high poverty rate and the standard of living was very low, due to the private corporations from foreign companies. The majority of the profit from Chile’s largest export, copper, was going to a United States company, Anaconda. Anaconda purchased mining rights in Chile, and discovered huge tracks of copper within. The mine in Chile began producing two thirds of the company’s copper, and created a large dependence on the United States from Chile. The United States believed that both Tomic and Allende would nationalize the copper production if elected (“The Electoral Stakes, the Pot and the Jockey With Money”). The United States also believed that while both would nationalize copper production, Tomic would keep stable relations with the United States while Allende would not. With that in mind the United States chose to continue support for

I decided to write this research paper because we were assigned to find an issue or subject within Latin America to write about. One of the most widely known and influential revolutionary figure in the history of Latin America is Ché Guevara. Ché knew how to use his intelligence and judgment in all the circumstances he encountered taking advantage of each moment as if it was a highly intensive chess game he was sincerely

It is hard to travel anywhere in the world without seeing somewhere the iconic image of Che Guevara on a T-Shirt, souvenir, or poster. The original photographer, and the Irish artist who turned that photograph into a print, are virtually unknown. However, their image has been redistributed to the point where it can effectively be called an icon or a meme. There is no small amount of irony in the fact that an icon of communism has become an emblem of capitalism: as the image has been bought and sold countless times in countless countries around the world. The iconic image of Che Guevara has a hipster chic to it, but also political panache. To don the Che Guevara image means one does not agree with the establishment and is part of the 99%. However, Che Guevara is a controversial figure too. The image has been banned in some parts of the world, because Che was a radical revolutionary who was not against the use of armed uprisings in communist revolts. Therefore, the iconic Che Guevara image created first in Cuba and turned into pop art by an Irishman is a paradoxical and typically postmodern cultural meme.

The lectures in class this week and the article “10 of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America” by Olivier Acuña has opened my eyes to the U.S.’s international political connections. The U.S. has proved throughout history to be self serving and has proven to intervene in nations that will lead to its own economic and political advantages. I find it unfortunate that the CIA and American government tries to pride itself on our democratic system, but will support corrupt dictators and absolute rulers

The copper industry was Chile’s biggest source of revenue. Copper provided a majority of Chile’s national exports. Allende's first big step supported by everyone was to the nationalization of copper chilies biggest industry. When it became nationalized to alleviate the property in Chile. “the infernal slopes there’s cross after twisted cross, the only kindling scattered by the tree of mining” (Neruda 216) The Anaconda Company, former American mining company, for much of the 20th century one of the largest mining companies in the world. American was afraid of a “Second Cuba”. Since American companies dominated the Chilean economy. The day after Allende’s election Nixon cut off loans to Chile. Credits dried up and the Chilean industry began to suffer casing an imbalance of payment problems. Prices and frustration grew as people had to stand in line for food. Workers began to seized factories. Allende socialism experiment was failing. Allende began to lose support on the political right and left. Left was becoming impatient. It all came to an end after Allende’s death. Chile became a military dictatorship under Pinochet. Thousands of Chilean leftist were tortured, murdered and went missing. “Military regime’s widespread and systematic use of torture against Chileans thought its network of approximately 1.200 torture centers.” (National Commission on Political Detention and Torture

During this time there were several dictators along all Latin America with the only exception of Mexico, and all these dictatorship were supported by United States. However, the dictatorship that really played a big roll in Latin America was the Chilean. For years Chilean democracy had negotiate major ideologies differences, since the Chilean communist party best know, as “Popular Unity” was one of the oldest and strangers in the continent. In 1970 Salvador Allende won the election in Chile. Allende, a medical doctor, Marxist, and candidate of the socialist communist coalition party, had very ambitious dreams of social transformation, he wanted the nationalization of Chilean copper, coal and steel, along with most banks and even a land reform.