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Human Rights In Latin America: Introduction, Regina Nockerts Jan 2006

Human Rights In Latin America: Introduction, Regina Nockerts

Human Rights & Human Welfare

As with many regions of the world, human rights are an issue of enduring concern for Latin America. The essays and bibliographies in this digest chart the recent history of human rights issues in this region, beginning, in most cases, with the wave of military coups that began in the 1970s, highlighting their lasting effects on the governments, civil societies, and economies of the region today. The cases of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru are given here; the Organization of American States (OAS) is also covered.


A Marriage Of Convenience: Batista And The Communists, 1933 – 1944, Charles Clayton Hollenkamp Jan 2006

A Marriage Of Convenience: Batista And The Communists, 1933 – 1944, Charles Clayton Hollenkamp

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines the relationship between Fulgencio Batista and the Communist Party of Cuba. At odds during the first several years of Batista's rule, when strikes and repression were the topics of the day, the two sides eventually saw in each other a means to an end. In efforts to understand the Cuban Revolution of the late 1950's, historians often portray Batista as a dictatorial puppet of American business and policy. Contrary to this image, in his first regime (1934 until 1944), Batista presided over the creation of a nominal constitutional democracy. To do this he needed the support and …


How To Hear The Unspoken: Engaging Cross-Cultural Communication Through The Latin American Testimonial Narrative, Elena Flores Ruiz-Aho Jan 2006

How To Hear The Unspoken: Engaging Cross-Cultural Communication Through The Latin American Testimonial Narrative, Elena Flores Ruiz-Aho

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This project seeks to address issues in cultural politics brought on by difficulties in cross-cultural communication, particularly as these problems manifest themselves in twentieth century Latin American testimonial narratives. By developing a critical line of questioning drawn from Gayatri Spivak's influential article "Can the Subaltern Speak," one aim herein is to analyze and describe the ways in which the narrative, Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchú Me Nació la Conciencia, translated into English as I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, exemplifies the incommensurable nature of cross-cultural discursive attempts. This is done through a twofold method: one, by placing heavy emphasis …


Supreme Court Reconstituted Seven Months After Dissolution, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Supreme Court Reconstituted Seven Months After Dissolution, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Disputed Election Gives Power To Pro-Chavez Parties, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Disputed Election Gives Power To Pro-Chavez Parties, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Bachelet And Pinera To Runoff, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Bachelet And Pinera To Runoff, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Guatemalan Masterpiece Pushes Back Dates Of Mayan Civilization, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Guatemalan Masterpiece Pushes Back Dates Of Mayan Civilization, Ladb Staff

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No abstract provided.


Manuel Zelaya To Head Honduras And Redefine His Party, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Manuel Zelaya To Head Honduras And Redefine His Party, Ladb Staff

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Government Sells Seafood Marketing Company To Sonora Investors, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Government Sells Seafood Marketing Company To Sonora Investors, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Fox Administration Reduces 2005 Growth Forecast To 3 Percent, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Fox Administration Reduces 2005 Growth Forecast To 3 Percent, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Controversial Tape Reflects Ongoing War Between Sinaloa, Gulf Cartels, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Controversial Tape Reflects Ongoing War Between Sinaloa, Gulf Cartels, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Law For Social Responsibility In Radio And Television, Asamblea Nacional De Venezuela Dec 2005

Law For Social Responsibility In Radio And Television, Asamblea Nacional De Venezuela

Latin American Energy Policies

Establishes the social responsibility of the television and radio media in the diffusion and reception of messages. This will be done, in part, by the creation of programming that includes messages that promote the conservation and preservation of the environment.


Top Pt Party Leader Barred From Public Office, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Top Pt Party Leader Barred From Public Office, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Law No. 3279 - Sources For The Generation Of Alternative Energy In The Beni Department, Congreso Nacional De Bolivia Dec 2005

Law No. 3279 - Sources For The Generation Of Alternative Energy In The Beni Department, Congreso Nacional De Bolivia

Latin American Energy Policies

Declares as national priority the development of sources for the generation of altenative energy in the Beni Department.


Pinochet Indicted On Tax Evasion Charges, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Pinochet Indicted On Tax Evasion Charges, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Rethinking The Region's Deforestation, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Rethinking The Region's Deforestation, Ladb Staff

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Dominican Republic Reforms Fail, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Dominican Republic Reforms Fail, Ladb Staff

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Arizona Firm Receives Permission To Build Oil Pipeline Through Mexico, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Arizona Firm Receives Permission To Build Oil Pipeline Through Mexico, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Mexico To Appeal Latest Wto Ruling On High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Mexico To Appeal Latest Wto Ruling On High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Mexicana Airlines To Be Sold To Mexican Investor Grupo Posadas, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Mexicana Airlines To Be Sold To Mexican Investor Grupo Posadas, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Disparo En Red, December 5, 2005, Disparo En Red Dec 2005

Disparo En Red, December 5, 2005, Disparo En Red

Disparo en Red (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The December 5, 2005, issue of Disparo en Red.


Countersummit To Summit Of The Americas Showcases Opposition, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Countersummit To Summit Of The Americas Showcases Opposition, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


President Alvaro Uribe Launches Re-Election, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

President Alvaro Uribe Launches Re-Election, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Venezuela Plans To Join Mercosur, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Venezuela Plans To Join Mercosur, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Honduran Presidential Election Throws Country Into Crisis, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Honduran Presidential Election Throws Country Into Crisis, Ladb Staff

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Renewable Energy Technologies To Improve Energy Access In Brazil, José Goldemberg, Emili Lebre La Rovere, Suani Teixeira Coelho, André Felipe Simoes, Patricia Guardabassi, Felipe Moreira Miranda, Centro Clima/Coppe/Ufrj, Cenbio/Usp Dec 2005

Renewable Energy Technologies To Improve Energy Access In Brazil, José Goldemberg, Emili Lebre La Rovere, Suani Teixeira Coelho, André Felipe Simoes, Patricia Guardabassi, Felipe Moreira Miranda, Centro Clima/Coppe/Ufrj, Cenbio/Usp

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This report shows the potential of Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) to help Brazil achieve it's goal to ensure the access to electricity to all citizens, and provides some recommendations of future actions to tap the RETs potential in order to make progress towards this end.


Haiti To Miss Constitutional Deadline As Elections Are Postponed Again, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Haiti To Miss Constitutional Deadline As Elections Are Postponed Again, Ladb Staff

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Guatemala Drug Czar Busted; Government Fails To Deliver On Drug-War Promises, Ladb Staff Dec 2005

Guatemala Drug Czar Busted; Government Fails To Deliver On Drug-War Promises, Ladb Staff

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Qubit, December 2005 Dec 2005

Qubit, December 2005

Qubit (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The December 2005 issue of the Qubit.


Polls Show Center-Left Candidate Lopez Obrador With Lead Over Two Rivals, Ladb Staff Nov 2005

Polls Show Center-Left Candidate Lopez Obrador With Lead Over Two Rivals, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.