Overview
For this assignment you will explore the web sites listed and read AT LEAST three news/analysis items or feature articles that address at least three distinct current events or topical matters in Latin America. For example, you could read an article about a U.S.-Venezuela dispute, another article about a massacre in Mexico, and a third about how indigenous organizations has been increasing their struggles in Peru and state a common theme(s) you are seeing in the articles. NOTE: that each article must come from a different web site. Then you will write an approximately two-page write up on each news, analysis, or feature article, in which you analyze and relate the particular item to themes such as colonialism, poverty, hierarchy social system etc. Make sure you do not merely describe the article: rather, you must analyze the article. What you want to show is how these articles helped to be able to understand contemporary developments in Latin America. Please add a works cited page referencing which news article websites you are using.
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm https://zcomm.org/znet/ News, analysis, and commentary from around the world from a progressive and radical social justice viewpoint. You need to search for the cluster on news from Latin America.
http://upsidedownworld.org. Website on Latin American social movements and popular struggles. https://www.alai.info/ Excellent website for news, analysis and commentary on social struggles in Latin America, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. http://www.narconews.com/. This website was started originally to “report on the drug war and democracy in Latin America” and now covers social movements and current events very broadly from a progressive perspective. https://nacla.org/. Home page of North American Congress on Latin America. Contains many interesting articles from a progressive perspective http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html The most important single website for research on Latin America. Run out of the University of Texas-Austin, this is a clearinghouse for a vast quantity of websites, reports, and data on Latin America, largely from Latin America.
http://www.barnews.com/index.php. This website is a porthole that will direct you to newspapers and magazines published in different Latin American countries.
https://www.telesurtv.net/seccion/blog/index.html Note: This is a Spanish-language only website. Journalists and governments from several South American countries, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, among others, wanted to create an alternative news channel to CNN International in Latin America. Telesur is the collective effort and this is the website. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/section/news, English language news service produced by Telesur. http://www.rebelion.org/. This website is in Spanish, and contains critical analyses of current political processes and events in Latin America. http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/. This website is dedicated to critical news coverage and analyses of events in Venezuela and in particular regarding the Bolivarian revolution. http://www.haitisupport.gn.apc.org/, excellent website on Haiti http://www.lab.org.uk/index.php, website of Latin America Bureau.