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"A New Way Of Doing Politics": The Movement Against Cafta In Costa Rica, Jeremy Rayner Feb 2014

"A New Way Of Doing Politics": The Movement Against Cafta In Costa Rica, Jeremy Rayner

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In October of 2007, Costa Ricans voted in a referendum to ratify a Free Trade Agreement with the United States (DR-CAFTA, or CAFTA). The first referendum in their nation's history--and the first referendum ever held on a Free Trade Agreement--marked the culmination of a cycle of contention over liberalization that transformed practices and expectations of politics in a country often considered an exemplar of representative democracy. In this dissertation I provide an account of the opposition to CAFTA (the NO), based on two years of ethnographic research with the Patriotic Committees (Comites Patrioticos), the decentralized, grassroots network at the heart …


President Enrique Peã±A Nieto Announces New Anti-Kidnapping Campaign, Carlos Navarro Jan 2014

President Enrique Peã±A Nieto Announces New Anti-Kidnapping Campaign, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Paraguay’S Decision To Rejoin Mercosur Revitalizes Trade Bloc, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jan 2014

Paraguay’S Decision To Rejoin Mercosur Revitalizes Trade Bloc, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Paraguayans Protest Corruption, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jan 2014

Paraguayans Protest Corruption, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Venezuela’S Chavistas Gain Strength; Opposition Split After Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jan 2014

Venezuela’S Chavistas Gain Strength; Opposition Split After Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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An Unstoppable Tide Of Femicides In Dominican Republic, Crosby Girã³N Jan 2014

An Unstoppable Tide Of Femicides In Dominican Republic, Crosby Girã³N

NotiCen

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Telecommunications Regulator Announces Auction Of Television Frequencies, Carlos Navarro Jan 2014

Telecommunications Regulator Announces Auction Of Television Frequencies, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Dialogues With The Informal City: Latin America And The Caribbean, Ariel C. Armony, Adib Cure, Carie Penabad Jan 2014

Dialogues With The Informal City: Latin America And The Caribbean, Ariel C. Armony, Adib Cure, Carie Penabad

Center for Latin American Studies Publications

This publication, based on the symposium Dialogues with the Informal City: Latin America and the Caribbean, connects a range of fundamental themes affecting the current conditions and future of Latin America’s growing informal cities and, by extension, the rising global urban population. Informal cities can be described as settlements frequently characterized by organic physical patterns built incrementally over time as the needs and circumstances of a community change. While undeniably precarious in construction, informal cities exhibit underlying urban and architectural patterns of remarkable resilience; moreover, they reflect their inhabitants’ enduring cultural values. While seriously affected by poverty and violence, …


The Vanguard Of The Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, And Democracy In Nineteenth-Century Latin America, James E. Sanders Jan 2014

The Vanguard Of The Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, And Democracy In Nineteenth-Century Latin America, James E. Sanders

History Faculty Publications

When Mexican Conservatives offered Maximilian the throne, he assumed that their desire for a monarch meant that the republican experiment in Latin America had failed. Even though he fell in defeat, Latin America’s importance for the development of republicanism and democracy and the shaping of the modern Atlantic world is similarly dismissed today. This refusal to grant the republican experiments in Latin America legitimacy has occluded a powerful alternative possibility for organizing society and understanding the future that emerged in nineteenth- century Latin America. As noted in the prologue, I denominate this alternative “American republican modernity.” In this counter mentalité, …


Chile’S Once And Future President Michelle Bachelet Wins Election Runoff In A Landslide, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Dec 2013

Chile’S Once And Future President Michelle Bachelet Wins Election Runoff In A Landslide, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiSur

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Crackdown On Peru’S Social Protests Intensifies Under President Ollanta Humala, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Dec 2013

Crackdown On Peru’S Social Protests Intensifies Under President Ollanta Humala, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

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Costa Rican Authorities Spot Illegal Airfields For Helicopters; President Says Finding Makes Organized Crime Nervous, George Rodrã­Guez Dec 2013

Costa Rican Authorities Spot Illegal Airfields For Helicopters; President Says Finding Makes Organized Crime Nervous, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Congress Easily Approves Energy Reform Plan; Pri, Pan Majorities Key To Passage, Carlos Navarro Dec 2013

Congress Easily Approves Energy Reform Plan; Pri, Pan Majorities Key To Passage, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Brazil Responds To U.S. Spying With International Diplomacy And Domestic Lawmaking, Gregory Scruggs Dec 2013

Brazil Responds To U.S. Spying With International Diplomacy And Domestic Lawmaking, Gregory Scruggs

NotiSur

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Uruguayan Politics Heats Up 11 Months Before Election, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Dec 2013

Uruguayan Politics Heats Up 11 Months Before Election, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Central American Migrants Remain Under Siege In Mexico, Carlos Navarro Dec 2013

Central American Migrants Remain Under Siege In Mexico, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Progressive Ties Wither In Southern Cone, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Dec 2013

Progressive Ties Wither In Southern Cone, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Breakthrough In Colombia Peace Talks Opposed By Far Right, Applauded By Everyone Else, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Dec 2013

Breakthrough In Colombia Peace Talks Opposed By Far Right, Applauded By Everyone Else, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Primary Healthcare Providers’ Views On Improving Sexual And Reproductive Healthcare For Adolescents In Bolivia, Ecuador, And Nicaragua, Lina Jaruseviciene, Miguel Orozco, Marcia Ibarra, Freddy Cordova Ossio, Bernardo Vega, Nancy Auquilla, Joel Medina, Anna C. Gorter, Peter Decat, Marleen Temmerman Dec 2013

Primary Healthcare Providers’ Views On Improving Sexual And Reproductive Healthcare For Adolescents In Bolivia, Ecuador, And Nicaragua, Lina Jaruseviciene, Miguel Orozco, Marcia Ibarra, Freddy Cordova Ossio, Bernardo Vega, Nancy Auquilla, Joel Medina, Anna C. Gorter, Peter Decat, Marleen Temmerman

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, East Africa

Objectives: To elicit the views of primary healthcare providers from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua on how adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) care in their communities can be improved.

Methods: Overall, 126 healthcare providers (46 from Bolivia, 39 from Ecuador, and 41 from Nicaragua) took part in this qualitative study. During a series of moderated discussions, they provided written opinions about the accessibility and appropriateness of ASRH services and suggestions for its improvement. The data were analyzed by employing a content analysis methodology.

Results: Study participants emphasized managerial issues such as the prioritization of adolescents as a patient group and …


High Court Ruling, Secret Document Discovery Overshadow Argentina's Midterm Elections Results, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Nov 2013

High Court Ruling, Secret Document Discovery Overshadow Argentina's Midterm Elections Results, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Human Rights Subcommittee Disbanded After Fujimorista Appointed To Head Group, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Nov 2013

Human Rights Subcommittee Disbanded After Fujimorista Appointed To Head Group, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Rio Teachers Strike Sharpens Brazilian Protest Scene, Gregory Scruggs Nov 2013

Rio Teachers Strike Sharpens Brazilian Protest Scene, Gregory Scruggs

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Venezuela Opens Way For Paraguay To Return To Mercosur, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Nov 2013

Venezuela Opens Way For Paraguay To Return To Mercosur, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Still Wounded By 2009 Coup, With Fraud Hovering Overhead, Honduras Heads For Elections That End Historic Bipartisanship, George Rodrã­Guez Nov 2013

Still Wounded By 2009 Coup, With Fraud Hovering Overhead, Honduras Heads For Elections That End Historic Bipartisanship, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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U.N. Human Rights Review Urges Mexico To Improve Protections For Journalists, Carlos Navarro Oct 2013

U.N. Human Rights Review Urges Mexico To Improve Protections For Journalists, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Kidnappers Without Borders: An Epidemic In Need Of Global Solutions, Caroline Gray Mcglamry Oct 2013

Kidnappers Without Borders: An Epidemic In Need Of Global Solutions, Caroline Gray Mcglamry

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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After Centuries Of Submission, South American Indigenous Groups Demand Recognition, Inclusion, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Oct 2013

After Centuries Of Submission, South American Indigenous Groups Demand Recognition, Inclusion, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Non-Marital Civil Union Proposed In Peru, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Oct 2013

Non-Marital Civil Union Proposed In Peru, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Government Increases Military Presence On Dominican Republic-Haiti Border, Crosby Girã³N Oct 2013

Government Increases Military Presence On Dominican Republic-Haiti Border, Crosby Girã³N

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Researchers Seek Ways To Preserve Indigenous Languages In Mexico, Carlos Navarro Oct 2013

Researchers Seek Ways To Preserve Indigenous Languages In Mexico, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.