What makes Latin America special? Of its thirty-three nations, it is by far one of the most diverse areas in the entire world, but it has been limited due to social inequality from “superior” nations. After Latin America was conquered and colonized over five-hundred years ago the people, even today, are still oppressed and taken advantage of. After viewing the films “Sleep Dealer” and “Kill the Messenger” it is clear that the past of Latin Americas struggles have shaped its future with other nations, and that the future will remain the same unless radical social change occurs. The biggest problem both films pointed out is that the U.S, and other powerful nations, influence further causes problems for Latin America, and no one man can change
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in their vocal plans on “War on Drugs”, and its influence on the streets, and neighborhoods of the nation. All this was more for the media to take and use as propaganda in support of the leaders of this nation, when in reality the film brings out the dark shadows of the power driven Nation. In Professor Robinsons Lecture we discussed the three types of social power, and one that stands out in this movie is about “Indirect/Ideological power” which is defined as control over minds, establish agenda (Lecture 11 April 2018). While the degree to this definition can be discussed, it was clear with the film that Danilo Blandon brought the drug “cocaine” into the United States to be disrupted on the streets. Then he used the money to pay for weapons that would supply the “anti-communist Nicaraguan rebels”. All this was allegedly happened under C.I.A. supervision since it was the governments agenda for this to happen. This manipulative power displayed on set is a small example of other real influences the U.S has had in influencing what goes on in Latin American countries, like Nicaragua. This fear of a new potential leftist government in any Latin America nation steams from fear of control. In William Robinsons article in the class reader, “Latin America, State Power, and the Challenge to Global Capital”, …show more content…
The Mexico/USA boarder is closed off, but labor from Mexican workers is still leaking into the U.S, but virtually. In Duncan Greens book, “Faces of Latin America” he discusses that, “Whatever their religious motives, the conquerors were utterly rapacious in their pursuit of wealth, and the extraction of the abundant indigenous riches” (Green 16). That this a good representation of what the argument of “keeping those Mexicans out of this country” really is for the media, while the true intentions of U.S involvement is to gain cheap labor. The “Sleep dealer” program is as bad as any labor if not worse, since a scene fifty minutes into the move display the strain it causes on the body, both physically and mentally. With this the movie portrays the terms discussed in lecture of underdevelopment and relative poverty. The way Professor Robinson described these terms is that relative poverty, “People are deprived of basic standards of diet, living conditions, leisure activities and amenities” (Lecture 11 April 2018). That after the privatization of the water in Tijuana the labor needed to be able to fully support themselves essentially drove the Mexican people into this labor. This is later to be supported on the means of supplying the U.S with their commodity. The way that Duncan Green defines a commodity, “as raw materials that drive the worlds economy’s” and it “Latin
in their vocal plans on “War on Drugs”, and its influence on the streets, and neighborhoods of the nation. All this was more for the media to take and use as propaganda in support of the leaders of this nation, when in reality the film brings out the dark shadows of the power driven Nation. In Professor Robinsons Lecture we discussed the three types of social power, and one that stands out in this movie is about “Indirect/Ideological power” which is defined as control over minds, establish agenda (Lecture 11 April 2018). While the degree to this definition can be discussed, it was clear with the film that Danilo Blandon brought the drug “cocaine” into the United States to be disrupted on the streets. Then he used the money to pay for weapons that would supply the “anti-communist Nicaraguan rebels”. All this was allegedly happened under C.I.A. supervision since it was the governments agenda for this to happen. This manipulative power displayed on set is a small example of other real influences the U.S has had in influencing what goes on in Latin American countries, like Nicaragua. This fear of a new potential leftist government in any Latin America nation steams from fear of control. In William Robinsons article in the class reader, “Latin America, State Power, and the Challenge to Global Capital”, …show more content…
The Mexico/USA boarder is closed off, but labor from Mexican workers is still leaking into the U.S, but virtually. In Duncan Greens book, “Faces of Latin America” he discusses that, “Whatever their religious motives, the conquerors were utterly rapacious in their pursuit of wealth, and the extraction of the abundant indigenous riches” (Green 16). That this a good representation of what the argument of “keeping those Mexicans out of this country” really is for the media, while the true intentions of U.S involvement is to gain cheap labor. The “Sleep dealer” program is as bad as any labor if not worse, since a scene fifty minutes into the move display the strain it causes on the body, both physically and mentally. With this the movie portrays the terms discussed in lecture of underdevelopment and relative poverty. The way Professor Robinson described these terms is that relative poverty, “People are deprived of basic standards of diet, living conditions, leisure activities and amenities” (Lecture 11 April 2018). That after the privatization of the water in Tijuana the labor needed to be able to fully support themselves essentially drove the Mexican people into this labor. This is later to be supported on the means of supplying the U.S with their commodity. The way that Duncan Green defines a commodity, “as raw materials that drive the worlds economy’s” and it “Latin