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1. What is the geopolitical significance (historical and contemporary)
of the Islands?
2. What did an Argentine newspaper mean when it called the Islands "a
British path to the Antarctic"?
3. How did the 1982 war affect US relations with Latin America?
4. Why did Argentina attempt to portray the war as a North-South conflict?
5. What was Venezuela's position in the conflict, and why?
6. What turn would Argentine politics have taken if the recovery of
the Islands had succeeded?
7. Question from McNees, pp. 232-245, María Luisa Bombal. "The
Tree": What is "magic realism", and how does it appear in
this story?
8. Question from McNees, pp. 280-290, Gabriel García Márquez,
"Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon": What does this story tell us
about small-town life in Colombia?
Note: In later versions of this web site we plan to have a
"chat room" where you will be able to answer the question, post
your answer, have other students (and the instructor) read your comments
and make their own comments. For the moment you might want to type your
answers in a word processing program and let the instructor have them for
extra credit. We will also be discussing these questions orally in class.