1.8 NACLA Report on the Americas Review #1 (ASSIGNMENT)

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Grossmont College

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For this assignment, you are to read current news articles about Latin America from the website for the North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA) and submit 3 short reviews during the semester. Please submit one review per due date. Each review is to be at least 3-4 pages and each due date corresponds to a regional topic in Latin America. I’ll explain further later in these instructions. The due dates for these reports are September 20, October 25 and November 27. Here are the regional topics corresponding to each due date:

  • September 20: Mexico, Canada or Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Belize, or Panama).

  • October 25: The Caribbean region (any of the islands, like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti; or Venezuela or Colombia)

  • November 27: The rest of South America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, or the Guianas)

To select the articles, click on any of the NACLA tags to see a page of various articles that you can access. For the first due date of September 20, select any article from the following pages: Mexico (Links to an external site.), Canada (Links to an external site.), Guatemala (Links to an external site.), Honduras (Links to an external site.), El Salvador, (Links to an external site.) Nicaragua (Links to an external site.), Panama (Links to an external site.), Costa Rica (Links to an external site.), and Belize (Links to an external site.).

Please submit your reports through Canvas in either of the following formats: doc, docx or PDF (if you are using Apple Pages to compose your review, please be sure to convert your paper to docx or PDF before submitting it). Late papers will be accepted for each submission, but only for one week after the assigned due dates and will be assessed a full grade deduction. Please use both a title page and a works cited page (neither of these pages count toward your 3-4 pages of text). These 3 reports will count as a combined 15% toward your final grade. In your works cited page, compose your article entry in a format like this:


Nidia Bautista, "Justice for Lesvy: Indifference and Outrage in Response to Gender Violence in Mexico City," NACLA Report on the Americas website (July 31, 2017).

In terms of the content of each report, I am looking for two main points of discussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points in the article that you selected. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What is the main issue being discussed? (i.e. immigration, elections, education, environment, women's issues, crime, etc.) Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? (i.e. Enrique Peña Nieto, Nicolás Maduro, Maurcio Macri, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Jair Bolsonaro, President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, etc.) How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? In other words, please try to be as objective as possible during this portion of the assignment.

And for the second point of discussion, please analyze the article that you selected and present your point of view on the story. For example, how do you feel about the story? How did this article contribute to your understanding about modern Latin America or the Americas in general? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article?

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Running Head: ARTICLE REVIEW: ‘CANADA’S BROKEN PLEDGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS
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DEFENDERS’

Article Review: ‘Canada’s Broken Pledge to Human Rights Defenders’

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ARTICLE REVIEW: ‘CANADA’S BROKEN PLEDGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS’
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Article Review: ‘Canada’s Broken Pledge to Human Rights Defenders’
The article addresses the issues of human rights defendants and how Canada has failed to
honor its pledge and support. The issue of human rights defendants and need for countries such
as Canada to act has been a major debate. This issue comes amidst the fact that Canada is one of
the leading countries with mining companies, which are accused to violate the human rights of
workers. The article is written to demonstrate the failure of the state to protect the defendants of
human rights defendants. The article begins by outlining the role that the Canadian courts have
played in making it difficult for the country to address the pledge it made to the human rights
defendants. Human right defendants play a critical role in the Canadian context considering the
vast number of mining companies that the country hosts. The workers working in di...


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