Nigoro St. James Regime: A Case Study

This project’s purpose is to record a people who have lived through the promises and outcomes of the Bolivarian Revolution, an idea that captured Venezuela’s spirit and spread across 16 Latin America nations as the Pink Tide. The poor and working class will be a fundamental component of this story as I investigate the role the revolution has played in shaping the lives of this perpetually overlooked group of people. Simultaneously, the nature of these issues will create a portal into the world of Venezuelan heritage, traditions, and political and civic culture. What I write will be the reality of the situation; the interpretation will be left up to the reader.

Starting with the state-centered institutions, their system is a hierarchy system that takes a top-down approach. They were also able to choose who gets arrested and when as they had absolute authority over others. This was seen when some of the members of the state centered institution agreed with the chief that their point has been made, but he has no choice but to follow through with his orders. Usually, in these forms of government, it is okay to take away the rights of the few in order to sustain the peace of the many. Even though there may be peaceful protests, the police used more force as time went on, even breaking some of the glass windows in vehicles and being more violent towards people.

Imagine living in a country where you know you could die at any moment but don’t know how much longer till it happens. That was how much of the population of El Salvador used to feel when the government could not control the big coffee corporations. These out of control corporations, highly feared that the people would want to revolt against them so they hired murderers to kill innocent people to spread fear in the minds of the people of El Salvador. Fear, hate, and sorrow were the common feelings felt by the poor and innocent major population of El Salvador caused by the evil wrongdoings of the government during October 1979 – 16 January 1992. This is how the main character, Jose Luis, of the novel “Mother Tongue” by Demetria Martinez, felt before escaping his beautiful yet over constantly dangerous country, which depended on its cash crop, coffee beans to sell on a foreign market as the country’s main income. However, following the stock-market crash of 1929, a drop in coffee prices became apparent and affected everyone in El Salvador, but the poor especially. Making things worse, the glorious United States was funding the men whom were doing all the innocent killings with more weapons and money to increase their military power. So for Jose Luis the safe haven that he had escaped to was also blatantly funding the war that was killing so many innocent people he knew and had forced him to escape for his own safety. With nowhere else to go in order to find safety the United

In mid-February 2015, I began to meet people who belonged to the community of "Lomas de Rosa Inés", which is a suburb of invasion, located two blocks from my apartment, this community lives in extreme poverty in wooden houses, and on that site the Government has started a housing plan over 8 years ago and not finish it leaving it abandoned, so it was invaded by followers of the "Bolivarian revolution" and over there live many of the members of the "motorized groups" operating in the area where I lived and that are responsible of committing all sorts of crimes such as robberies, theft to stores and to extort money from merchants to let them work and are responsible for monitoring the activities of government’s opponents and sabotage the protests

During this time, instead of giving up their cause, they held steadfast and kept their voices heard. They believed in their cause with so much passion, that they would not surrender to the cruel tortures of the SIM, Trujillo’s secret police. In fact, they tried convincing other prisoners to want to overthrow Trujillo by secretly taking newspaper clippings of his wrongdoings and having them in their hair. Had they given up in prison, their cause and motivation for other revolutionaries would have died right there. However, they stayed persistent and resilient to continue fighting against Trujillo’s regime. Imagine if they had not stayed true to their cause. Trujillo may not have been overthrown! His despotic and inhumane ways of treating his country and people may have never ended. People who would say anything opposing him would be instantly put to death. There would be no freedom of speech. The very basic rights and freedoms people live and long for would be taken away from them. By sacrificing their time with their families, friends, and children, the Mirabal sisters ensured that the entire nation’s future generations would live with peace and

“Unlike the counterproductive repression of his predecessor…Rios Montt's approach was methodical and politically sophisticated, albeit no less brutal. It required massacres of selected Indian villages identified with the guerrillas and, as terror neutralized support for the rebels in surrounding areas, a strategy known as ‘beans and rifles’ was applied, involving distribution of food and creation of civil patrols among the rural population. In a matter of six months, between 3,000 and 5,000 Indians were killed, some 250,000 were displaced from their homes, 30,000 fled into Mexico, 80,000 peasants were press-ganged into civil patrols—and the guerrillas' popular base was largely destroyed. The government also launched a propaganda offensive,

After the protests, a high-ranking police officer gives the command to ‘fire’, and the massacre of nearly everything in the village ensues. By using Abelardo, a confused drunkard, as his narrator, he is subtly able to enforce the idea that the story is just that of a fool witnessing a horrific and surreal massacre, while in truth he himself is one of the oppressed protestors that he is writing about, fighting against his corrupt government. While Abelardo is another of the oppressed in the town, he does not feel oppressed, only mildly upset due to his incarceration, which allows the reader a more unbiased view at the occurrences around Abelardo’s confinement. While this may seem to betray the oppressed, it really does them justice by giving the readers an impartial narrator, and thus letting the reader decide which side it better, which is obviously the innocent townsfolk for the average

Violence can either be a physical force that is rough or hurts, or an exertion of power against laws or rights that is unwanted or unjust. This means that violence does not necessarily have to be the physical type that we normally think about. The oppression caused by Trujillo is also violence, even though it is not always physical. A significant amount of violence occurs due to Trujillo’s

The image of a somewhat cohesive revolutionary party working towards peace put forth by Womack draws a stark line between the “bandit” enemy described by General Huerta and the Zapatistas. Brunk, in his writings on Zapata, challenges this narrative by exploring the gray space that does not allow for easy delineation between revolutionaries and bandits. Rather than existing as an arbitrary offshoot of Zapatismo, “banditry represented the pursuit of local political (and economic) goals” (Brunk, 349). Womack does acknowledge the “insoluble village rivalries that only compromise could ease”, but does not relate them directly to feuds involving bandits (Womack, 233). The nature of local politics was arguably defined by the multiplicity of intrinsic power struggles over local democratization.

Salvador worked in the fields tending cotton and cattle, this lifestyle was common amongst all citizens and provided the largest monetary source for all citizens. In the late 1970’s several residents joined local protest and strikes in collaboration with guerrilla organizations to question their income and working conditions in comparison to the top percentile of the country who included the government and the military (Wood, E., 2003). One of the most popular guerrillas would become the Frente Farabundo Marti para la liberation Nacional who stood for higher wages

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela is arguably the most important novel of the Mexican Revolution because of how it profoundly captures the atmosphere and intricacies of the occasion. Although the immediate subject of the novel is Demetrio Macias - a peasant supporter of the Mexican Revolution -, one of its extensive themes is the ambivalence surrounding the revolution in reality as seen from a broader perspective. Although often poetically revered as a ‘beautiful’ revolution, scenes throughout the novel paint the lack of overall benevolence even among the protagonist revolutionaries during the tumultuous days of the revolution. This paper will analyze certain brash characteristics of the venerated revolution as represented by Azuela’s

At seven o’ clock in the morning on December 11, 1981 an evil force entered the small El Salvadorian village of El Mezote (School of Assasins). With painted faces and army fatigues, the guerillas carried machine guns and automatic rifles into the peaceful village. As survivor Rufina Amaya recounts, “At ten o’clock the soldiers began to kill the men who were in the church. First, they machine-gunned them and slit their throats” (“Country Sheets for Close it Down Fast!” 3). After the men, the women were placed face down in the dusty streets and shot to

The author’s understanding of violence is extended beyond the text and into the political history of Latin America, full of neo-colonial repression, racial discrimination and struggles.

Met the highest authorities of the State in all its levels; there was talk of security, on budgets, talked about money, investment and nothing was said almost nothing of the tremendous insecurity in which we live the Bolivians in all parts of the country. We live no longer a wave or a high peak of violence, but rather a constant that is repeated; no longer provides enough to consider this as an exception, but as a norm to the citizens we must resign ourselves.

Colombia is a Latin American country located in South America that has been ravaged by violence, starvation, and large-scale inequality between higher and lower classes. The chaos in Colombia has been between rebel forces and the government and has lasted for over fifty years. These rebel forces have fought to achieve their Liberalist lead goals of overthrowing the current democratic government of Colombia and replacing it with a communist government. La Violencia was the main contributor to the conflict between the resistance fighters of Colombia and the Colombian government that has brought on violence and terror from the violent actions between the Liberal and Conservative parties in the 1950’s. , which has directly brought on the violence and terror from the guerrilla groups.