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Region's Indigenous Leaders Demand To Be Heard, Louisa Reynolds

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

This article discusses the 10th Indigenous Fund Assembly, held in November 2012. It provides a brief summary of the topics covered at the gathering, focusing on the contentious issue of prior consultation of indigenous communities in national policy and project implementation. The article also discusses the notion of 'buen vivir' (good living), and how this concept, along with human rights, could be utilized in creating more appropriate indicators to measure progress in development and rights for indigenous people in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Region's Indigenous Leaders Demand To Be Heard, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

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Victims’ Compensation Law Goes Into Effect, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Paraguay Looks Ahead To Presidential Elections, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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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, 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.

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

NotiSur

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

NotiSur

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

SourceMex

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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.

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 …

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

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

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

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 …

Social Policy And Redistribution: Chile And Uruguay, Jennifer Pribble, Evelyn Huber

Political Science Faculty Publications

In this chapter we ask two questions: First, we ask whether these governments, exemplifying best-case scenarios in Latin America, have embarked on a viable path toward a sustainable social democratic welfare state. Second, we ask whether and why they differ in their approaches and progress on this path, paying close attention to how the parties' organizational characteristics influence this variation. In their introduction, Levitsky and Roberts classify the left parties in Chile and Uruguay as an "institutionalized partisan Left," distinguished between an "electoral-professional" Left and a "mass-organic" Left. Uruguay's FA is an example of a mass-organic left party, while Chile's …

Legal Latin Americanism, Jorge L. Esquirol

Faculty Publications

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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 …

Latin America In The Post-Chavez Era: The Security Threat To The United States. By Luis Fleischman. Washington: Potomac Books, 2013. Isbn 978-1-61234-601-4. Bibliography. Index. Pp. Xvi, 276. $29.95., Richard Kilroy, Jr. Ph.D.

Journal of Strategic Security

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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 …

Colombia President Negotiates With Rebels But Continues Military Offensive, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

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President Enrique Peã±A Nieto Proposes Plan To Restore Passenger Trains To Mexico, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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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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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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Civil Society Organizations Brand Guatemalan Government’S Report To U.N. Superficial", Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

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Lima Mayor Faces Recall, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

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Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Two Nominees For Supreme Court, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Sandinistas Dominate Municipal Elections In Nicaragua, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

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