[Men] Latin America Course

[Ted Goertzel]

I followed up on George's suggestion and published a detailed outline for
the Latin America course.  It is getting some response on Facebook.  You
can register at https://www.marietta.edu/ilr if interested.

Here is the outline FYI:

January 13 -

   - The Latin American countries and how they differ from Anglo America.
   - The succession crisis in Bolivia as Evo Morales, the first president
   of indigenous origin, fights for a fourth term in office
   - The first segment of the movie Central Station about a young boy whose
   mother is killed in an accident. A jaded middle aged woman takes him
   under her wing and they take off to find his father in the northeast.

January 20 -

   - The Argentine Paradox, why did a country that was as rich as Canada at
   the beginning of the 20th century, fall so far behind?
   - Highlights from the work of Latin America’s Six Nobel Laureates in
   Literature.
   - The second segment of Central Station

January 27

   - Latin American Populism from Juan Domingo and Eva Peron in Argentina,
   to Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Is the US
   becoming more like Latin America?
   - Roberto Burle Marx: the Brazilian who revolutionized landscape
   architecture. Segment of a BBC video on Burle Marx
   - Concluding segment of Central Station.

February 3

   - The “Car Wash” investigation and the globalization of Latin American
   corruption.
   - Segments from The Mechanism, a Brazilian teledrama about the
   prosecutors and judge who convicted Brazilian working class hero and
   President Lula da Silva for corruption.
   - Latin American poetry, including children’s poetry as well as
   highlights from the works of Pablo Neruda and others. Video on Neruda.

February 10

   - Latin American socialism from Cuba to Allende’s Chile to Venezuela
   today. Is Latin America where bad ideas go to die or have they been
   subverted?
   - Mending the Urban Fabric with Geometry and Bamboo: New Developments in
   Latin American architecture
   - Francesco Toledano, the Mexican artist who drew on his indigenous
   Zapotec heritage in his art and used his prestige to preserve the culture
   of his native Oaxaca

February 17 -

   - Haiti: from the world’s only successful revolution by enslaved people,
   from 1791 to 1804, to the impoverished nation of today. What went wrong
   after the revolution that actually freed the slaves when the US did not.
   - Haitian Art: African, Indigenous American and European influences.
   - The Top 20 Most Groundbreaking Latin American Films. Trailers and
   clips.

February 24 -

   - The Northern Triangle of Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador and
   Honduras. What’s driving emigration to the US.
   - Costa Rica and Nicaragua: why did reform succeed in one and revolution
   fail in the other
   - \More from the top 20 Latin American films

March 2

   - The youth uprising in Chile, despite economic growth and stable
   democratic institutions
   - Cuba: transition to democracy or revolution forever?
   - Is Latin America approaching the U.S. model or is it the reverse?
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