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European, Latin American Investment To Boost Cuba's Tourism Industry, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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President Ernesto Zedillo Announces Controversial Cabinet Changes, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Encouraging Relational Investment And Controlling Portfolio Investment In Developing Countries In The Aftermath Of The Mexican Financial Crisis, Randall S. Thomas, Enrique Carrasco

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Global financial markets trade about $1 trillion of securities each day. Investors in these markets seek the highest returns by shiffing huge amounts of capital from nation to nation, "playing global monopoly... and deciding which governments deserve to 'Pass Go' and collect $200 billion dollars and which should go directly to jail and be starved of the capital to raise living standards." International competition for capital gives global investors tremendous leverage over developing nations' economic policies.

Investors will shift capital into developing countries that adopt macroeconomic policies to ensure stable, high rates of effective return. However, if returns drop, or …

"Never Draw Unless You Mean To Shoot": United States Department Of State's Responses To Property Seizures In Latin America, Nathan D. Younge

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the U.S. Department of State's diplomatic handling of disputes over the seizure of U.S.-owned property in Latin America between 1937 and 1973. Seizures in Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru and Chile are used as case studies, and provide examples of successful and unsuccessful diplomatic outcomes.

Several key factors are analyzed in each dispute, including Several key factors are analyzed in each dispute, including whether the Department took a conciliatory or confrontational approach toward each country, the kind of economic pressure applied, the situations under which the Department opted for official diplomatic involvement, and the types of informal …

[Introduction To] The Postmodern In Latin And Latino American Cultural Narratives: Collected Essays And Interviews, Claudia Ferman

Bookshelf

In Latin America the postmodern debate contains two big areas of controversy, which are deeply rooted in history and which have profound cultural and political significance. First, the postmodern debate encompasses a series of aesthetico-cultural subjects, such as questions related to literary genre, the processes of literaturization and deliteraturization or the questions of gender associated with textual production. Secondly, the postmodern debate relates to considerations about the processes of the transnationalization of economic and cultural production, and their complex implications concerning questions of identity and cultural production in Latin America.

Televisa, Foreign Partners To Offer Satellite-Based Programming In U.S., Americas, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Panamanian President Perez Balladares Facing Several Controversies, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Retired Bolivian Generals Reveal Burial Site Of Revolutionary Hero Che Guevara, Ladb Staff

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Sevencandidates Enter Nicaraguan Presidential Race; Election Laws Pending, Ladb Staff

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Institutional Crisis Continues In Ecuador With Probe Of President Duran Ballen, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Guerillas Begin Cease-Fire; Guatemalan Elections To Proceed Uninterrupted, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Honduran Court Orders Arrest Of Officers In Disappearance Case, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Analysis: Is Neoliberalism Undermining Alternative Project For Nicaragua?, Guest Author

NotiSur

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Should Latinamerican Prosecutors Be Independent Of The Executive In Prosecuting Government Abuses?, Philip B. Heymann

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Analysis: Peace Talks In Chiapas, A Breakthrough Or Dead End For Ezln, Guest Author

SourceMex

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Slow Progress In Peace Process Following War Between Ecuador, Peru, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Guatemalan Intelligence Officer Accused Of Ordering Murder Of U.S. Citizen, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Tenuous Cease-Fire Fails To End Border War Between Ecuador, Peru, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Conflict Between Ecuador, Peru Still Unresolved, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Peru Opens Presidential Campaign; Controversy Surrounds Electoral Commission, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Latin American Debt Obligations In The 1990s: Risk Strategies: Remedies And Judicial Enforcement, Lee C. Buchheit, Emilio Cardenas, Antonio Mendes, Thomas Heather

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This is a discussion of debt obligations in Latin America and how the symposium panelists would have advised there clients.

Telmex, Radio Centro Acquire Media Properties, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Controversy Explodes Over Military Anti-Crime Operations In Rio Slums, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Argentina's Sweeping Privatization Program Nears Completion, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Organized Crime Alleged To Have Financed Elections In 15 Colombian Cities, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Analysis: U.S. Occupation Of Haiti Aims To Stabilize Elite Rule, Guest Author

NotiSur

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Peru's First Lady Enters Presidential Contest, Putting President Fujimori In A Bind, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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Final Vote Tally Confirms Overwhelming Victory For Ernesto Zedillo, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Preliminary Results Show Overwhelming Victory For Ernesto Zedillo Of The Pri, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Brazilian Presidential Candidates Lula, Cardoso Pick New Running Mates, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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