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Criminal Organizations Target Social-Media Activist In Tamaulipas, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Cuba To Head Celac In Coming Year Of Change, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Huge Explosion Rocks Administrative Headquarters Of State-Run Oil Company Pemex In Mexico City; Gas Leak Apparent Cause, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Huge Explosion Rocks Administrative Headquarters Of State-Run Oil Company Pemex In Mexico City; Gas Leak Apparent Cause, Carlos Navarro

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

This article outlines the January 2013 explosion in one of the towers of PEMEX headquarters in Mexico City. It identifies some of the unofficial sabotage theories that arose as a result of the government's cautious approach to name the cause, stating that the explosion will bring an additional variable to consider in reforming Mexico's energy sector.

Increasingly Critical Situation For Brazil's Indigenous Peoples, José Pedro Martins

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

This articles discusses the critical developments with regards to the situation of Brazil's indigenous peoples. The article outlines recent events, such as the razing of a Rio de Janeiro building that house indigenous families; the death of three indigenous children as a result of becoming stranded in poor urban living condition; and threats of collective suicide as an alternative to being driven off their ancestral lands. The article describes in-depth the issue of suicide within indigenous communities, also documenting the support and solidarity they have received from various Brazilian religious agencies and figures--namely, Catholic bishops.

Increasingly Critical Situation For Brazil's Indigenous Peoples, Josã© Pedro Martins

NotiSur

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Uruguay's President Josã© Mujica's Simplicity Draws Attention Around The Globe, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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National Security Response To Crisis With Nicaragua Creates Corruption Scandal In Costa Rica, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chã¡Vez Unable To Attend Swearing In, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Honduran Magistrates Opposed To Police-Purge Law Sacked By Congress; They Appeal To Supreme Court, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Victims’ Compensation Law Goes Into Effect, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Criticism Of Anti-Terrorism Bill In Peru, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

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Controversial Highway A Step Closer In Bolivia, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Controversial Highway A Step Closer In Bolivia, Andrés Gaudín

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

This article provides information about the indigenous consultation process undertaken by the Bolivian government with regards to the TIPNIS highway project. It officially concluded on December 9, 2012. The article looks at the democratic nature of the process, the constraining conditions that arose as a result of the consultation, and the actors involved, specifically those opposed to the project.

Sabbatical Report, Monserrat Oliveras-Heras

Sabbaticals

My proposal was designed both to enhance my own qualifications to teach the courses on Latin American Cultures and Civilizations and the Latin American literature course as well as to finally finish a project and an idea first conceived during my graduate work at the University of Illinois. It involved both academic and field research. First, I intended to read a selection of fictional and historical books on the subject of the Spanish Conquest of Chile and to compare their contents. Secondly, I intended to travel to Chile and Argentina with the objective of contacting people related to the indigenous …

Una Herida Abierta A Content Analysis Of U.S. News Reports Covering Femicide In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Eva Gray

Theses & ETDs

Since 1993, hundreds of femicides (murders of women) have gone unsolved on the US-Mexico border. This thesis is concerned with how two US newspapers, the Houston Chronicle and the New York Times, cover these femicides in Juárez, Mexico. The research looks at three separate time periods: 1996-2000, 2001-2005, and 2006-2010 in order to ascertain changes in coverage through time; I coded 32 articles. I found lower coverage in the first time period; peaking around 2001, when there was increased attention by governments and NGOs condemning the murders. The Houston Chronicle provided more frequent coverage, though it tended to be brief. …

The King's Toilet: Cruising Literary History In Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

In this article I will read Before Night Falls as Arenas' queer version of Cuban literary history and his relation to it. Against the commonplace assertions that demand that Before Night Falls be primarily understood, if not exclusively, as an invective against Fidel Castro or, in the other extreme, as an ars moriendi and AIDS testimonial from a sexual dissident, I wish to revisit this text on the twentieth anniversary of its publication to underscore a missed reading that can help situate how Arenas, one of the most transgressive writers theorized in this collection as the Generation of '72, might …

Una Cárcel De Cultura: Secuelas De La Dictadura Chilena En Un Centro De Arte Comunitario, Sofia Leblanc

Honors Papers

In Chile, wounds from the Pinochet dictatorship of 1973 to 1990 still fester under the surface of its post-transitional society. The regime of terror lives on in economic policies, architecture, the country's grave-pocked landscape, and in the everyday lives of Chileans. My research examines a former prison and torture center that has been converted into a cultural park: a space of culture, art, and community, sanctioned and administered by the state. It serves as a microcosm for Chile, which has chosen to erase its violent past while also perpetuating a system of class stratification and power structures that come directly …

Costa Rican Congress-Supreme Court Clash As Magistrate’S Re-Election Sparks Institutional Crisis, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Women's Mobilization In Latin America: A Case Study Of Venezuela, Brianna Russell

Master's Theses

Abstract

I examine the following elements in regards to women’s mobilization in Latin America and Venezuela from the late 1950s to the present: (a) the influence of the state and economy on times when women mobilized (b) class division within the movement (c) women’s demands during different time periods (d) the ways in which women were successful in working towards gender equality. This thesis reviews the literature on women’s mobilization in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. I find that women mobilized across class lines with the masses to end dictatorships. Women demobilized during transitions to …

Leaked Emails Lift Lid On Corruption In Administration Of Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

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Government Offers Major Reform To Public Education; Measure Would Also Curb Power Of Teachers Union, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Venezuelan Voters Head To Polls Again, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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Honduran Election Authority Claims Primary Voter Turnout Rose From 2008 To 2012; Human Rights Activist Says Results Grossly Manipulated, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Lima Mayor Faces Recall, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

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Cuba Alert To Possible Brain Drain With Increased Migratory Flexibility, Daniel Vã¡Zquez

NotiCen

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Indigenous Justice In Ecuador, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

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Indigenous Justice In Ecuador, Luis Ángel Saavedra

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

This articles discusses the challenges and tensions encountered between indigenous and national systems of justice in Ecuador. The article highlights some of the major issues surrounding indigenous systems, namely, how crime should be dealt with, as well as how indigenous justice has been negatively portrayed in the media. The article suggests that indigenous communities know how to structure their justice systems the best; thus, the national justice system should work with them in a collaborative effort.

Army Shoots Dead Seven Indigenous Protesting Rising Electricity Bills From Energuate, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

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