Sheila Cassidy Essay

In October 1998 he became the centre of international attention when he was arrested in London, following a request from Spain for his extradition to stand trial for ‘crimes of genocide and terrorism’, in which some of the victims had been Spanish nationals. The arrest caused tension between UK and Chile, and civil unrest in Chile

Repeated miscommunications and an inability to have discourse resulted in fewer and fewer people willing to compromise. The tensions between the right and the left wing parties were getting to the point illustrated in the protest scene. The parties were no longer cooperating and listening to one another and were simply talking past one another. Once this occurred Allende was no longer able to get anything done, resulting in the democratic breakdown of Chile. Much like there was a breakdown between the two classes because they no longer listened to one another and were too focused on what they wanted and not what was best for the public good. We can learn a lot from this movie and also what happened in Chile at this time. We need to be able to know one another and understand where each of us is coming from. Without this we will only talk past one another and not listen to what we each of us is

Overall, both Chile and Brazil saw instances where some of its civilians experienced violence, torture, and oppression. These extreme cases of violence and tensions have resulted in many various scholars to share their experiences. For instance, Florencia Mallon has shared how the Mapuche people, who have experienced suppression in most of Chile’s history. Also, historian James M. Green shared the story of how Brazilian activists in the late 1960s-1970s campaigned against the extreme violent acts inflicted on its people by military leaders. Both Green and Mallon allowed the inferior to speak and tell a common story of poverty, discrimination, and marginalization, as well to showcase “the importance of divergent forms of human community and

Patricio Guzman uses Latin American Documentary tradition to vindicate the oppressed. He uses this documentary to enlightened the world about the beauty surrounding Chile and the turmoil that also cultivated by the Pinochet regime. During the Pinochet regime many people disappeared, this documentary explores the desaparecidos who were dropped from planes into the ocean this took place during the 1970's. In the documentary, Gabriella is introduced. She discusses how the water was the only means for survival, she ate only shellfish. Water saved her. She expressed how she

“Six years later [after 9/11] about 355 detainees remained in Guantanamo amid reports of prosecution, ill treatment, mental and physical health breaches, rape, and torture” (Cutler 31). Lidless is a drama that discusses the horrid events that went on at Guantanamo Bay. Throughout Lidless, Alice, a former soldier at Guantanamo Bay, had to perform terrible tasks, such as rape, to detainees in order to acquire information. When Alice returned home, she could not deal with remembering what she had done, so she took a pills to forget. As a result of being a soldier in Guantanamo Bay, her past began to catch up with her and it affected her family, as well as a detainee named Bashir, who was arrested at Afghanistan because of his race. Lidless argues that one’s race effects the

In weeks 9 to 11, the movement we looked at had very similar themes, often regarding things like rebellion and standing up for culture and what a society deems is “right”. We first learned about Che Guevara and how he became an icon to both Latin America and North American culture from Dr Anna Hamling. Her lecture was on the perpective of cultural icons, how people viewed them, and what it took to become an icon. She discussed the ways that people viewed Che, some seeing him as a hero where others saw him as just a tyrant who murdered anybody who got in his way.

Hernán Grüber is a military person who participated in a coup supporting Hugo Chávez on November 27, 1992.To those arguments, the police agreed to release the woman. Minutes later a group of people in the group became urban guerrilla Tupamaros joining the conversation that I had with the police, one of the criminals in that group took my ID card and immediately put in doubt my story, saying that they had already seen me before protesting against the Government; I started to worry me, I thought they were saying that just to prove me , or simply because I really was identified. My best reaction at that time was running out of the place, I ran, I mix with people and then I hid me in a building where fortunately a lady allowed me to the entrance. I stayed there until dawn, then I left and went

Aleida March, the second wife of the late Cuban Revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, met her future husband in the fall of 1958 in the Escambray Mountains in Southern Cuba in which she described her first impression of the bearded guerilla fighter to a colleague, “I replied somewhat casually that I thought he wasn't bad, and that I found his penetrating gaze rather intriguing. I saw him as an older man” (“Married”). Their marriage would last through the tumultuous years following the Cuban Revolution and would end upon the death of the Marxist Revolutionary during an attempted uprising in Bolivia. Señora March’s description of Geuvara as “an older man” (“March”) fits the personality of a man who not only was aware of his place in the world but

“The act of watching film is an act of witnessing by its nature. The viewers witness the history represented on the screen through the cinematic apparatus.” Such is the power of documentary and cinema as a whole. Patricio Guzman’s body of work “constitutes the most complete attempt in any medium to document Chilean national life before, during, and after the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990)”. Guzman in his films has painted a complete history of Chiles Blood riddled history from the overthrowing of Allende by Pinochet, to the numerous coups that tore through the heart of Chile. He has also managed to create an incredible viewing experience that combines artistry and empathy with the cold trauma of Chiles History. Collective and social memory

Imagine being in downtown Havana, Cuba, a place whose people have few freedoms and you walk by a student proudly wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. Che, a past dictator of Cuba, was a Marxist/atheist revolutionary rebel leader who rose up and defeated Batista in 1959. To a handful of Cubans, he is a hero and represents freedom. Che successfully established an authority over Cuba and remains, to this day, a symbol of rebellion for many. Che executed political enemies, burned bibles and church libraries, put 10’s of thousands of Cubans in concentration camps, and did many more cruel things. The irony, however, is that Che was truly a cruel man, certainly more of a villain than a hero. Similarly, readers of the poem, “from Paradise Lost” by John

The new administration, led by President Patrizio Aylwin, was unable to investigate human rights violations and economic crimes due to the Constitutional Tribunal upholding a law that restricted any new government from investigating any actions taken by the military government since it took power in 1973 (UPI Archive). This meant those that suffered under Pinochet’s rule were unable to seek retribution and were left only to dwell on his cruelty (NPR). There were mixed feelings in the country regarding whether or not to punish him. While some people demanded he be punished, others argued that he should be praised. Fernando Alessandri, a Chilean political figure, claims that “The Pinochet regime has many mistakes, very serious mistakes, but these are mistakes that should always be kept in perspective.”, also stating that “His biggest legacy will be that he opened the country’s economy to the world, and brought the world to the country” (NPR). Eventually, Pinochet did face judgement. While in London on a medical visit, he was extradited to Spain after the Spanish court system found him connected to the torture of Spanish citizens in Chile during his former

Regrets would only devour her if she dwelled on them, they would do little to change the situation she was in now. All emotion had slipped away from her during her time incarcerated here and she’d learnt through the endless torture she must play the game the facility had set. If she wasn’t useful, why would they want to keep her alive?

The film also takes a look at why René is helping the No campaign with people such as Guzmán remarking that he should be happy as he leaves a good life with lots of expensive things which would not have been possible without Pinochet’s rule whilst at the same time his ex-wife is encouraging him to help the no campaign and his father’s past of being an exile as an example of the regimes effect on everyone.

Along with all the issues that come from the aftermath of war and terrorism there is also a great effect that comes with children as they are being exposed to such violence at a young age. During these events children can experience several different things that can negatively affect them such as, “experiencing a family member being deployed and in harm’s way as well as being unable to focus because of the environment and problems they are currently going through.” (naspoline.org) In consort with these effects also come the witness of death and destruction as well as severe injury and starvation because of the condition the child is in during the war. As a child can experience all of these traumatic experiences they can go through several problems

Even when children are not actively fighting as soldiers in war, “some [children] witness the death of loved ones. Some are forced to pull the trigger themselves”(Romenzi). Having to witness the death of loved ones or even having to kill someone else is something that leaves children emotionally scarred. The children in warzones are made to endure the constant exposure to death, violence, loss and fear. The children can eventually “lose their confidence, their trust in others and their trust in the future. They often become anxious, depressed and withdrawn, or rebellious and aggressive”(Romenzi). War affects children negatively and creates wary, squeamish, or aggressive personalities or even Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD). The increased exposure to violence and death let mental issues appear in the traumatized