THE EIGHTIES!

By Vinicio Batista

Valmy

Ricardo Batista

Laura E. Batista

TOP MOVIES

By Vinicio Batista

1982

1984

BY LAURA BATISTA

GASTRONOMY AT THE 80S

YOU

KNOW

WHAT A

TRAPPER

KEEPER

IS.

IF YOU

WHERE ON

A BABY

SITTER

CLUB AND

WANTED TO

CREATE

ONE ON

YOUR OWN.

2 WORDS…

HAMMER PANTS

YOU WORE A

PONYTAIL ON

THE UPPER

SIDE OF YOUR

HEAD

WORE

ONE

OF THESE

REMEMBER

AND WANTED

THIS

IF YOU

REMEMBER

WHAT

SAVED

ZACK

THE 80S MUSIC GAME

PERFORMING HIGHWAY TO HELL

THE 80S MUSIC GAME

PERFORMING ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

THE 80S MUSIC GAME

PERFORMING KASHMIR

THE 80S MUSIC GAME

PERFORMING CLONES

THE 80S MUSIC GAME

PERFORMING FOR EVER YOUNG

By Ricardo Batista

WARS

The United States engaged in significant direct and indirect conflict in the decade via alliances with various groups in a number of Central and South American countries claiming that the U.S. was acting to oppose the spread of communism and end illicit drug trade.

The U.S. government supported the government of Colombia s attempts to destroy its large illicit cocaine-trafficking industry and provided support for right-wing military government in the Salvadoran civil war which became controversial after the El Mozote massacre on December 11, 1981 in which U.S.-trained Salvadoran paramilitaries killed 1000 Salvadoran civilians.

NUCLEAR THREATS

Operation Opera - a 1981 surprise Israeli air strike that destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor being constructed in Osirak. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Israeli intelligence also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the reactor before it would be loaded with nuclear fuel.

President Reagan's decision to station intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe provoked mass protests involving more than one million people.

DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE:

Canada gained official independence from the United Kingdom with a new Constitution on 17 April 1982, authorized by the signature by Elizabeth II. This act severed all political dependencies of the United Kingdom in Canada (although the Queen remained the titular head of state).

In 1986, Australia and the United Kingdom fully separated Australia's governments from the influence of the British Parliament, resulting in a consolidation of Australia's independence that had been granted a century before.

Prominent political events:

USA:

Ronald Reagan was elected U.S. President in 1980. In international affairs, Reagan pursued a hardline policy towards preventing the spread of communism, initiating a considerable buildup of U.S. military power to challenge the Soviet Union. He further directly challenges the Iron Curtain by demanding that the Soviet Union dismantle the Berlin Wall.