First WIKI Assignment
Your assignment is to create a glossary of key terms and concepts, a working vocabulary for the course section on Chile. Each student should contribute 5 entries to this Wiki. Each entry should consist in 5 -7 sentences, depending on the complexity of the concept or term. Four of the entries should be chosen from the list below; a fifth entry should be added by the student. Select the concepts that you add carefully. Entries cannot be repeated among the members of the same group.
Please organize the glossary neatly and legibly. This is not an exercise in copy and paste from Wikipedia or any other source. You have to define terms in your own words, adding pictures or using multimedia (using the functions in the content editor) to illustrate the concept or term chosen when appropriate. You all have commenting (and editing) privileges. Use them! This is a group assignment, that is to say, a collaborative task. It is worth 14 points. Please see the syllabus for Scoring Rubrics for Wikis.
Entries proposed by Instructor:
Agrarian reform
Amnesty Law of 1978
Aylwin, Patricio
Bachelet, Michelle
CNI (Central Nacional de Informaciones)
Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez
Chicago Boys
Cold War
Democracia Cristiana or Christian Democratic Party
DINA (National Intelligence Directorate)
Frei Montalva, Eduardo
Kissinger, Henry
Lagos, Ricardo
Letelier, Orlando
Military coup
Militancy
Milton Friedman
MIR (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria)
Neoliberalism
Neruda, Pablo
Operation Condor
Partido Nacional or Nacionalist Party of Chile
Partido Radical or Radical Party
Pinochet’s detention in London (1998)
Plebiscite (October 1988)
Political Left
Political Right
Reparations (transitional justice)
Rettig Commission (or National Truth and Reconciliation Commission)
Riggs Bank Scandal
September 11, 1973
Transitional Justice
Truth Commission
Unidad Popular or Popular Unity Coalition
Valech Commission (National Commission on Torture)
Vicaría de la Solidaridad
Víctor Jara
Villa Grimaldi
Note: These entries have to be explained in terms of Chile. This is to say, that if you are going to explain “Nixon” the entry has to focus in his relationship to Chile. The same when you explain terms such as “Political Right” or “Political Left,” etc.