San Salvador

Most parts of Latin America have been struggling to implement or enforce democracy for the past century. The most notable examples are Argentina and Chile. Many political scientists have argued that this is mostly due to internal factors such as the corporatist culture and lack of proper structural reforms, but they do not include external pressures from the international sphere to curb communist influence in Latin America. In this paper, I will argue that from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the…

certain person. At first, I would reveal my ethnicity of Guatemalan and El Salvadorean and people would respond, “ Isn’t that in Mexico?” or “It is the same thing as Mexican.” This actually disturbed me because I had travelled to both Guatemala and El Salvador and as to Mexico, but Mexico lacked something that the other countries had and that was family. I kept my emotions within me, half nodded, dropped my eyes to the ground, and agreed with them. I recall on one time when I was instructed to…

houses as we struggled for financial stability. One day, my mother received news that one of her brothers was coming to the United States from El Salvador. She had not seen any of her brothers since she left El Salvador at the age of four, so she was excited to be reunited with him. My mother bought a house around the time he arrived from El Salvador, and he, having no place to live, moved in with my family. From then on, this first chapter of my life would be filled with pain, confusion,…

The status of Latin American Governments has ranged from opposite ideological ends of the spectrum. After Salvador Allende, who was democratically elected by the Chilean people, was over thrown by Agusto Pinochet due to poor economic reform and a spike in inflation, the state of Chile efficiently turned around the economy because of neo-liberal economic policy enforced by not a democratic government but an authoritarian state. Pinochet’s powers associated with being a dictator allowed him to…

* Used the means of terror and fear to eliminate opposition and gain information * A Gestapo-type police force (Kornbluh 158) * Intended to centralise both the gathering of intelligence and dispensing of repression (Kornbluh 158) * Aimed to eliminate opposition of all kinds (civilian dissent, political opposition, and international opposition, and internal opposition within the military government) (Kornbluh 159) Projects and measures carried out by the DINA * 13,500 were…

During the 1980’s there was a movement towards a democratic government from dictatorships. The leading four factors, that the author Padraic Kenney thought to be causing the change in the type of government from dictatorships to a democracy was: nonviolence, technological advancements, transnationality, and the emergence of human rights. Dictators weren’t as popular in countries under that type of government because the people of those countries wanted better human rights and that meant voting…

all. I was not going to do anything here [in El Salvador] . . .I had nothing to hope for” (Abrego, 2014, p. 33). In Esperanza’s story her husband stopped providing for the family and she told Abrego, “ . . . I had to go around borrowing money, and I couldn’t keep doing it all the time . . . That’s why I made [the] decision [to migrate] (Abrego, 2014, p. 39). Amanda, who was better off financially and lived a more tolerable lifestyle in El Salvador than Gloria and Esperanza, lost economic support…

became immersed in Spanish culture and became fluent in Spanish. It really benefitted me as I was able to skip Spanish 4 Honors, and go straight to Spanish 5 Honors Heritage. It also was great because my Dad was a diplomat at the US Embassy in El Salvador during that time, so when I went there this last Thanksgiving break, alone, I was able to effectively communicate with the natives and explore the culture more in…

A structural family therapist would focus on the family system when working with Hernandez family. Their family subsystem is considered as conflictually enmeshed relationship between parents and children, and having the close relationship between primary couple. AF has enmeshed relationship with her entire family as well. The structural therapist would more focus on how the quality of relationship affects power structure. Hierarchy is one of the most important considerations for working with the…

I remember the day when my mother dropped me off at the front door of my pre-school class- the welcoming teachers who were extra tender, the vibrant wall decorations, and the clueless children who were dominantly from Mexican heritage, but the image that strikes me most is of me hugging my Guatemalan mother’s leg, telling me “Todo ba estar bien mijio.” translated in English as “son, everything will be fine.” Only I knew understood my mother 's words since she spoke in Guatemalan Spanish instead…