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.