HWC1.2 Day 82 - Latin America Wrap-Up

Objective:   Define Latin America as a cultural and geographic region.  Examine contemporary issues in Latin America.

Task:  We'll start class with a game to review our Latin America maps.  After we finish our Latin America summary notes, we'll divide into groups to investigate one of the following contemporary issues:

1. Oil pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon (see links and videos below)
2. "Coffee-Go-Round" (on Moodle)
3. "Geraldo's Brazil" (on Moodle)

For your topic, create a summary to share with your classmates.  Each summary must include an overview of the issue, a explanation of this issue as a regional and global topic.  You'll share this information with the class on Monday and Tuesday.  Finally, we'll end class with an article examining links between terror and the drug trade.

Homework:

• TODAY - Final research essay due by 3:00 pm 
• TODAY - Gandhi & Kundun extra credit due
• Monday, 6/3 - Cumulative map quiz
• Tuesday, 6/4 - "Cocaine: New Front Lines" article due for CLASS discussion
• Wednesday, 6/5 - Research/reflection presentation due IN CLASS
• Thursday, 6/6 - HWC1.2 Culture Food Party 
• Tuesday, 6/11 (7:48-9:14) - HWC1.2 Final Exam

Chevron rejects "allegations that it is responsible for alleged environmental and social harms in the Amazon region of Ecuador."

"Plaintiff's Expert Disavows Evidence in Chevron Ecuador Case, Says Process Fatally Tainted" (Forbes, 4/11/2013)