Evil Hour In Columbia by Forrest Hykton Journal Entry 1

Five Comments

1. AUC (United Self-Defense forces) violated the human rights of Colombians.

2. There is a conflict occurring in Choco.

3. Colombia had enclave economies, so each region of Colombia had its own economic system.

4. In Colombia there is a large production of coffee 

5. During the 1970's Industrial Manufacturing began.

Four Questions

1. What armed conflicts are going on in Columbia?

2. Why did the AUC violate people's rights?

3. Why didn't Uribe's law support the emphasis on memory, reparations, justice, truth and expropriation?

4. When did the Columbian Civil War end?

Three Words

1. Autonomy-  independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions

2. Dramatis- the characters of a play, novel or narrative

3. Auspices - with the help, support, or protection of

4. Ecocidal- the destruction of large natural areas by such activity such as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals

Two Literary Techniques

1. Personification- "... You create a cloak of suspicion over those who travel to and from rural zones to municipal capitals..." (Hylton 3).

2. Idiom-"To blame the bulk of the countries problems on the insurgency-fashionable academia and the media- is to put the cart before the horse" (Hylton 3).

One Summary Sentence

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