Resources About South American Leaders

This blog is a bibliography for resources about South American leaders. This bibliography is meant for various users hoping to read more about South American leaders. Of course, I cannot make the "best" recommendations about South American resources, but these sources are adequate.

Resources pertaining to Allende
Alexander, Robert J. The Tragedy of Chile (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4005154&referer=brief_results

Allende, Salvador, The Chilean Road To Socialism: Conversations With Salvador Allende (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1977).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226400&referer=brief_results

Castro, Fidel, Homenaje to Salvador Allende
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1139756&referer=brief_results

Crockcroft, James E., ed Chile's Voice of Democracy: The Salvador Allende Reader (New York: Ocean Press, 2000).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44421458&referer=one_hit

Davis, Nathaniel The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12506001&referer=brief_results

Lario, Matt M., Bringing Down the House: The Active Role of the Chilean People in Crushing Allende's Power 1971-1973 (Stockton College)
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61108916?tab=details


Power, Margaret Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle Against Allende 1964-973 (Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48958080&referer=brief_results

Steenland, Kyle, Agrarian Reform Under Allende: Peasant Revolt in the South (Albuquerque: University o fNew Mexico, 1977).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3090132&referer=brief_results

Resources Pertaining to Chavez
Gott, Richard, In the Shadow of the Liberator: Hugo Chavez and the Transformation of Venezuela (New York: Verso, 2000).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44822869&referer=brief_results

Kozloff, Richard, Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the United States (New York: Palgrave, 2006)
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70680128&referer=brief_results

McCaughan, Michael, The Battle of Venezuela (New York: Seven Stories, 2005).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57731101&referer=brief_results

Resources Pertaining to Fujimori
Kenney, Charles et. al Fujimori's Coup and The Breakdown of Democracy in Latin America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 2004).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52860056&referer=brief_results

Guillermoprieto, Alma The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now (New York: Vintage Books, 1994)
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28797789&referer=brief_results

Kimura, Rei Alberto Fujimori of Peru: The President Who Dared to Dream (Worcester: Eyelevel, 1998).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45991373&referer=brief_results

Simon Strong, Shining Path: Terror and Revolution (New York: Random House, 1992
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26257115&referer=one_hit

Resources Pertaining to Uribe
Bowden, Mark Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45086854&referer=brief_results

Braun, Herbert Our Guerrillas, Our Sidewalks: A Journey Into the Violence of Colombia (Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1994).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31045016&referer=brief_results

Garcia, Gabriel Marquez News of A Kidnapping (New York: Random House, 1997).
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36528149&referer=brief_results

Resources Pertaining to Vazquez
BBC News, "Uruguay Elects Left-Wing Leader,"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3968755.stm

BBC News, "Uruguay Seeks Debt Restructuring"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2845447.stm

Final Website / Quizes

Well, I created my final website http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/final/. Please e-mail me your comments at mml44@drexel.edu

Also please send me your answers to the following quizes in XML format.

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/652/quiz.xml
Allende quiz above

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/652/chavez%20quiz.xml
Chavez quiz above

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/652/fujimori%20quiz.xml
Fujimori quiz above

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/652/uribe%20quiz.xml
Uribe quiz above

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/652/vazquez%20quiz.xml
Vazquez quiz above

Best of luck,
Matt Lario

My Interst in South America

Mi Interesta En America de Sur

So by now, you are probably wondering, why South America? My interest in South America started during my childhood, when I heard my grandparents in Florida talk about Fidel Castro. I wondered, who is Fidel Castro, and why should I care? An amusing incident, which triggered my love of Latin America was my brother. He just got his glasses and claimed they belonged to Manuel Norieaga ex-dictator of Panama. Sure enough, somebody called up for Manuel Norieaga. LOL! This interest in Latin America continued into my undergrad at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

I signed up for Spanish and a Latin American politics course. These courses made me interested in Latin America immediately. In particular, Chile during Salvador Allende's presidency (1970-1973) please see: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/final. As you can see on my Allende page, I wrote my senior thesis on the people's role in destabilizing Allende's government.

This project combines my love of Spanish, Latin America, and yes, HTML (yes, HTML). So, I am very excited with this project.

Dreamweaver

To make my intro-page, I need to launch Dreamweaver. After attempting numerous tries in class, I did not succeed. Perhaps it was the computer or myself causing the problem. My problem was restricted access and not allowing permission to launch Dreamweaver. I am almost certain, that I overlooked a step.

One of the causes was my ftp password did not take. Although I am in the IST program, I cannot understand every computer problem. That does not mean I will not succeed.

Images

Everyone is familiar with the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words." For my assignment, I want to include various images on my websites. So far, I am not having any luck. I believe that the command: img src="image.url" />. Is this correct?

Wikipedia has some interesting images, which are copyright free for users. I would like to include these images in my project.

Problems With Project

Tuesday, 6 November 2007

Problems Associated With Project
There are some problems associated with the completion of my project. One problem pertains to finding adequate and recent information on South American countries. Finding information on Bolivia and Uruguay proves difficult. Authors on Latin American History only focus on Cuba, Chile, Arentina, Peru, and Central American countries. Trying to find information about Paraguay, Guyana, French Guyana, and Dutch Suriname is quite impossible. So, this project has many limitations. However, I can prevent those limitations by conducting further research.Another problem is the visitor's familarity with South America. On average, visitors will not be experts on the subject of South America. Therefore, I will write my project to make visitors familiarized with South American countries by providig maps, and offer as much information as possible.Images are another problem I am encountering. I want to include images and avoid improper copyright laws. Different sites have numerous laws pertaining to using images on websites. Wikimedia can assist me in properly using images.By conducting research properly, I will find a logical solution to all these problems.Links:http://www.matlario.blogspot.comhttp://www.mlario.blogspot.comwww.pages.drexel.edu/~652/Table.html

Project Information

I created these websites to educate visitors to my site about South America.Here are the learning objectives:

1.) To understand the history of South America (the information I provided)

2.) Become familiar with United States and South American foreign relations.

3.) Develop a knowledge of the literature pertaining to South America.

4.) Insight into major political conflicts and change in South America.

5.) Understand the vast differences in democracy between United States and South America (i.e., in United States citizens elect a President, in South America, military or revolutionaries take over the position).

6.) Role of the media in South America and United States media pertaining to South America.By viewing these websites, visitors should understand major concepts presented in the pages.

Link:
http://matlario.blogspot.com/
www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/final

South American Leaders

For my INFO 652 Internet Resource Design project, I will create websites of 20th, and 21st century leaders from South America. This project will include 5-8 different websites of South America's most well known leaders. Websites will include a biography, significance of Presidency, book reviews, and additional links.

I majored in Latin American History as an undergrad at Stockton College. All of these countries fascinate me and I want to learn more about them. My purpose behind making these websites is to inform users about Latin American leaders and its wonderful history. I excluded Guyana, French Guyana, and Dutch Suriname because very little information exists on these countries.

The webpages will have various titles elucidating each Presidents' significance in their respective countries. Chile will be called Chile's Socialist Experiment Gone Awry, Peru and Fujimori: A Nation In Jeopardy, Stroessner's Country, and Chavez: Dictatorship or Democracy?

My ideas for the color palettes will include the counrty's flags. So, Peru would be red and white. A couple problems arise because Colombia and Venezuela share the same colors. Also, not all the flags are eye-pleasing.

For a list of leaders included in this project visit
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mml44/final