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Cubans' Expectations Increase For Better Access To Internet, Information, And World Connection, Daniel Vã¡Zquez Feb 2013

Cubans' Expectations Increase For Better Access To Internet, Information, And World Connection, Daniel Vã¡Zquez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Is Ecuador's Social Participation An Illusion?, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra Feb 2013

Is Ecuador's Social Participation An Illusion?, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Three Years After The Quake That Killed Hundreds Of Thousands In Haiti, With 300,000 Still In Tents, A Question Arises—Where Is The Money?, George Rodrã­Guez Feb 2013

Three Years After The Quake That Killed Hundreds Of Thousands In Haiti, With 300,000 Still In Tents, A Question Arises—Where Is The Money?, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Violence, Crime In Mexico Remain Obstacle To Growth Of Foreign Tourism, Carlos Navarro Feb 2013

Violence, Crime In Mexico Remain Obstacle To Growth Of Foreign Tourism, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Bolivia Rejoins Un's Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Feb 2013

Bolivia Rejoins Un's Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


El Salvador Seeks International Help To Block Gold Mine In Guatemala, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Feb 2013

El Salvador Seeks International Help To Block Gold Mine In Guatemala, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Geologists Discover Huge Aquifer In Southeastern Area Of Mexico City, Carlos Navarro Feb 2013

Geologists Discover Huge Aquifer In Southeastern Area Of Mexico City, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Huge Explosion Rocks Administrative Headquarters Of State-Run Oil Company Pemex In Mexico City; Gas Leak Apparent Cause, Carlos Navarro Feb 2013

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

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Huge Explosion Rocks Administrative Headquarters Of State-Run Oil Company Pemex In Mexico City; Gas Leak Apparent Cause, Carlos Navarro Feb 2013

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.


Uruguay's President Josã© Mujica's Simplicity Draws Attention Around The Globe, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Feb 2013

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

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Enrollment Is Up, But Quality Problems Persist In Nicaragua’S Public Schools, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Jan 2013

Enrollment Is Up, But Quality Problems Persist In Nicaragua’S Public Schools, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


National Security Response To Crisis With Nicaragua Creates Corruption Scandal In Costa Rica, George Rodrã­Guez Jan 2013

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

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Supreme Court Panel Rules That French Citizen Florence Cassez's Civil Rights Were Violated, Orders Her Release, Carlos Navarro Jan 2013

Supreme Court Panel Rules That French Citizen Florence Cassez's Civil Rights Were Violated, Orders Her Release, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Clock Is Ticking On Chilean President’S Push For Same-Sex Civil Unions, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Jan 2013

Clock Is Ticking On Chilean President’S Push For Same-Sex Civil Unions, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Honduran Magistrates Opposed To Police-Purge Law Sacked By Congress; They Appeal To Supreme Court, George Rodrã­Guez Jan 2013

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

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Victims’ Compensation Law Goes Into Effect, Carlos Navarro Jan 2013

Victims’ Compensation Law Goes Into Effect, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Paraguay Looks Ahead To Presidential Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jan 2013

Paraguay Looks Ahead To Presidential Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Criticism Of Anti-Terrorism Bill In Peru, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Jan 2013

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

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Ecuador: Made-To-Order Justice, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra Jan 2013

Ecuador: Made-To-Order Justice, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Controversial Highway A Step Closer In Bolivia, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jan 2013

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

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Controversial Highway A Step Closer In Bolivia, Andrés Gaudín Jan 2013

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.


The Dominican Republic Four Months After President Danilo Medina Took Office, Crosby Girã³N Jan 2013

The Dominican Republic Four Months After President Danilo Medina Took Office, Crosby Girã³N

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Ejército Zapatista De Liberación Nacional Observes 19th Anniversary Of Uprising In Chiapas, Carlos Navarro Jan 2013

Ejército Zapatista De Liberación Nacional Observes 19th Anniversary Of Uprising In Chiapas, Carlos Navarro

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

This article details the historical and contemporary events that marked the 19th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. The article not only provides information on the current state of the EZLN autonomous communities, but also offers multiple parties' perspectives on the indigenous rights law passed in 2001. The article concludes with the EZLN and Subcomandante Marcos' criticism of the recently elected president, Enrique Peña Nieto.


Ejã©Rcito Zapatista De Liberaciã³N Nacional Observes 19th Anniversary Of Uprising In Chiapas, Carlos Navarro Jan 2013

Ejã©Rcito Zapatista De Liberaciã³N Nacional Observes 19th Anniversary Of Uprising In Chiapas, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Mobilization After Repression: Reconsidering The Role Of Testimonies And Exiles In Post-War El Salvador, Angela Elena Fillingim Jan 2013

Mobilization After Repression: Reconsidering The Role Of Testimonies And Exiles In Post-War El Salvador, Angela Elena Fillingim

Societies Without Borders

During the civil war in El Salvador, the Salvadoran military engaged in the systematic disappearance of youth and facilitated their adoptions. Presently Found, a Salvadoran human rights NGO, works to reunite these youth with their surviving biological families. However, a key difference between Found and other similar organizations, is that the former was established in the post-war context. Through a case study of Found, and placed in comparative light with a similar phenomenon in Argentina, I will show that traditional mobilization strategies face new obstacles in a post-war context. Specifically, while Found engaged in many of the same movement tactics …


Legal Stability Contracts In Colombia: An Appropriate Incentive For Investments? Historical Causes And Impact Analysis Of Law 963 To 2005, Alvaro Pereira Jan 2013

Legal Stability Contracts In Colombia: An Appropriate Incentive For Investments? Historical Causes And Impact Analysis Of Law 963 To 2005, Alvaro Pereira

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

Current global economic order is openly dependent on foreign direct investment (FDI). At least since the 1990’s, developing countries have competed to attract FDI because it is considered the best source of technology, employment, and financial resources. Colombian Law 963 of 2005, which is a response to said competition, allows the signature of Legal Stability Contracts (LSCs) between the State and investors for the purpose of stabilizing the rules guiding investment decisions, for up to 20 years. Legal stabilization has successfully proven to increase FDI inflows. Nevertheless, incentives for FDI have been subject to several critiques that stress the excess …


Una Herida Abierta A Content Analysis Of U.S. News Reports Covering Femicide In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Eva Gray Jan 2013

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. …


Women's Economic Opportunity And Industrial Development In Brazil And Argentina, Laura Libby Jan 2013

Women's Economic Opportunity And Industrial Development In Brazil And Argentina, Laura Libby

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines gender equity in Brazil and Argentina by studying the subtopic of female economic opportunity. In this comparative study, the questions asked are if, and how, the diverse industrial economic development patterns of Brazil and Argentina have influenced female economic opportunity. Additionally, how these economic opportunities have or have not impacted the livelihood and agency of women in these two nations is discussed. Utilizing economic and gender theory, the economic opportunity of women in this paper is measured through six indices of equality, gender and development, such as the GEO, HDI, WEO and others. The historical context of …


Abortion In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Comparative Study Of Domestic Laws And Relevant Jurisprudence Following The Adoption Of The American Convention On Human Rights, Ligia M. Dejesus Jan 2013

Abortion In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Comparative Study Of Domestic Laws And Relevant Jurisprudence Following The Adoption Of The American Convention On Human Rights, Ligia M. Dejesus

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

By ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR),' Latin American and Caribbean states made a commitment to protect prenatal life from the moment of conception


The King's Toilet: Cruising Literary History In Reinaldo Arenas' Before Night Falls, LáZaro Lima Jan 2013

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 …