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Understanding The Ideological Transformation Of Farc In Colombia, Savannah Grier

CMC Senior Theses

In 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) agreed to a peace deal that led to their disarmament. The former guerrilla group, FARC, integrated into Colombian politics by forming a new party called Comunes. FARC, thus, has taken a similar route to other former rebel groups in Latin America by pursuing its agenda as a political party after demobilizing. This thesis examines the ideological transformation and political evolution of FARC, analyzing its transition from a Marxist-Leninist insurgent group to a political party within Colombia’s democratic system. By exploring FARC’s historical role in the Colombian conflict …

We Are All Mestiz(Ç)Os: An Exploration And Deconstruction Of The Myth Of Mestizaje/Mestiçagem In Mexico And Brazil, Michelle Garcia

CMC Senior Theses

Different from the United States, racial-mixing was permissible in Latin America throughout its history. Furthermore, race-mixing has been cemented into the national identities of LatAm states through Mestizaje, thus painting these states as racial democracies. This thesis examines the construction and maintenance of Mestizaje as a myth and sign for racial democracies as well as the racial disconnect created within those in “Mestizo” nations. This thesis contributes to existing literature by utilizing Mexico and Brazil due to their different socio-historical contexts. They will serve as case studies to evaluate the mechanisms that allow this myth to persevere. First, I will …

Advancing Medical Applications Of Cancer Nanotechnology: Highlighting Two Decades Of The Nci's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory Service To The Research Community, Rachael M Crist, Yechezkel Barenholz, Ahuva Cern, Kate N Clark, Pieter R Cullis, Cheryl Dean, Neil Desai, Mauro Ferrari, Matthieu Germain, Carmen A Giacomantonio, Emma Grabarnik, Piotr Grodzinski, Atara Hod, Barry E Kennedy, Ruvanthi N Kularatne, Glen S Kwon, Emmanuel Loeb, Erin B Noftall, Len Pagliaro, Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni, Alexander Roth, Darren Rowles, Kulbir Singh, Nicole F Steinmetz, Zhanna Yehtina, Yao Zhang, Daniel Zilbersheid, Jeffrey D Clogston, Stephan T Stern, Marina A Dobrovolskaia

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

The Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) is a US federally funded resource providing characterization and expertise to the cancer nanomedicine research community. Founded as a formal partnership among the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the NCL has spent two decades developing a one-of-a-kind service with broad multidisciplinary expertise to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving drug development field. To mark the 20th anniversary of the lab's founding, the NCL hosted a symposium to highlight the achievements of the cancer nanomedicine field, showcase novel, …

Cities In Transition: Insights From Three Latin American Cities On Urban Growth, Governance, And Sustainable Development, Abby Barahona

Scripps Senior Theses

In 2015, the Inter-American Development Bank reported that nearly 80 percent of the Latin American population lived in cities, a figure projected to reach 90 percent by 2040. In addition to being the most urbanized region in the world, Latin America is also the most unequal. This research explores the challenges and possibilities of equitable urban development in Latin America by evaluating how cities perform across four key dimensions: functionality, inclusivity, environmental sustainability, and aesthetic value. Drawing from historical context and case studies of El Alto (Bolivia), Brasília (Brazil), and Medellín (Colombia), this thesis examines patterns of urban growth shaped …

Latin American Culture, Bernardita Llanos Mardones

Open Educational Resources

This course examines a series of contemporary cultural and social issues in Latin America through the study of case studies in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Nicaragua, Chile, Peru and Bolivia. Among the topics we will analyze are: feminicide- or the killing of women due to their gender, abortion rights, historical and cultural memory, peace and war, sexual abuse and male power, politics and corruption, machismo and racism. The course ends with the ethics and life style based on the community practiced by the Andean world and summarized in the thirteen principles of “el buen vivir o Sumak Kawsay.” Through the readings …

Resisting Neoliberalism: Testimonios Of Language Teachers As Social Activists, David Martinez-Prieto

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This study examines the testimonios of Mexican language teachers who experienced the violent and institutional imposition of neoliberal policies at the main university at the state of Puebla. Through the analysis of testimonios, language teachers narrated their own trajectories to resist the implementation of the neoliberal policies, such as the restriction of teaching freedom for educators, the elimination of the right to free education for students, and the current subjugation educators experience at the site of study. Based on the Foucauldian concepts of sovereign and institutional power, along with governmentality, this article analyzes the activism of language teachers, and …

Revelations: Spirituality As Privileged Perspectivism In Magical Realist Distortions, Isabella Scala-Kazanecki

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by Francine Prose, an American writer. The Kingdom of This World, itself the originator of the mode of magical realism, has allowed me to conclude with Carpentier that magical realism arises from “privileged revelations,” as he notes in the preface to his seminal book. But these revelations in magical realism are not necessarily always of the …

Association Between Trust In The Incumbent President And Covid-19 Preventive Behaviors During The Pandemic In Four Latin American Countries, Juliana Mejía-Grueso, Gloria Isabel Niño-Cruz, Javiera Alarcón-Aguilar, Pablo Roa-Urrutia, Sergio Mauricio Moreno-López, Adriano Akira Ferreira Hino, Alexandre Augusto De Paula Da Silva, Fernando López, Deborah Salvo, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Guillermo Rosas, Andrea Ramírez-Varela

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed disparities in policy responses in Latin America. We examined the association between trust in the president and COVID-19 preventive behaviors in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. We used data from the Collaborative COVID-19 Response Survey by the McDonnell Academy at Washington University in St. Louis (United States), from September 2020 to March 2021. Nonprobabilistic sampling included adult citizens from the four countries. Multivariate negative binomial regression models were applied. The study included 8,125 participants, with Brazil showing the lowest adherence to preventive behaviors (65.5%). Increased adoption of preventive behaviors was linked with ages 18-26 (aIRR = …

Inner Life, Spiritual Leadership, And Spiritual Well-Being As Predictors Of The Organizational Performance Of Employees At A Seventh-Day Adventist University In Latin America, Patricio Ordoñez

Dissertations

Problem

While traditional leadership models, such as transactional and transformational leadership, have shown success, recent research highlights the need for leadership approaches that address the spiritual and ethical dimensions of individuals in the workplace. Leaders who fail to integrate spiritual leadership risk negatively impacting employee satisfaction, creativity, and overall organizational performance. Despite the well-established concepts of inner life and spiritual well-being, more research is needed to understand their effects on employee performance in faith-based institutions. This study sought to fill that gap by examining the relationship among inner life, spiritual leadership, and spiritual well-being as predictors of organizational performance among …

Macroeconomics, State Action, Civic Trust, And Homicide: The Causes And Consequences Of Interpersonal Violence In Latin America, Guillermo Escano

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) represent 8 percent of the global population but about one-third of global homicides, yet interpersonal violence in the region receives limited attention in the English-language literature. This dissertation contains three distinct studies of the causes and consequences of crime and violence in LAC. The first study examines the predictive effects of inflation on robbery, burglary, and homicide rates in Argentina, which possesses one of the highest robbery rates worldwide and has endured high inflation – and, at times, hyperinflation – for years. I obtained annual crime data for 1973-2022 from the National Criminal Information …

Gender Equity And Coffee Agroforestry: The Environmental And Social Impacts Of Commodity Production In Latin America, Suzanna Lloyd

Student Theses 2015-Present

This paper addresses the environmental and social implications of coffee growth and production in Latin America. Women contribute significantly to the ownership of coffee farms and labor of coffee production; however, there is a lack of resources and financial compensation for their work. Chapter One provides both quantitative and qualitative data on the environmental impacts of coffee plantations compared to agroforestry methods of coffee production in Latin America. This chapter defines basic terms, differentiates coffee species and mode of production, and explains the ecosystem services of biodiverse, tropical farms. Chapter Two highlights the patriarchal nature of Latin American agriculture systems …

Carnivalesque Economies: Clowning And The Neoliberal Impasse, Barnaby King

Kritika Kultura

In Colombia, clowns are proliferating and thriving, particularly in the context of neoliberal political economies prevailing since the mid-1990s. This paper explores some reasons why this might have occurred, as well as theorizing a two-way relationship of domination and resistance between clown practices and the current iteration of late capitalist global economies; what I call “carnivalesque economies.” While Bakhtin described clowns as “the constant, accredited representatives of the carnival spirit in everyday life out of carnival season,” the Colombian case suggests that their breaching of norms and violations of taboos are all too easily co-opted by governments, corporations, and institutions …

Church Reform In A New Cultural And Ecclesial Context: Diagnoses And Positive Starting Points, Carlos Schickendantz

Vincentian Studies

Carlos Schickendantz discusses why the Church's governance needs reform and the extent to which the Second Vatican Council recognized this. He explains how the Church should incorporate accountability into its structure and why its hierarchy should share power with the laity. Schickendantz describes why the sexual abuse crisis highlights the exigency for these reforms and how they all have precedents in thought resulting from the Second Vatican Council. The current synodal process also addresses two other important contemporary issues: women’s role in the Church and “the inclusion of marginalized people in a decolonial perspective.” As Schickendantz writes, “The synodal process, …

Towards More Forage Seeds For Small Farmers In Latin America, J E. Ferguson, G Sauma

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Smallfarmers in Latin America are scattered among different agroecosystems, such as: Andean highlands; Central American and Andean hillsides; Amazonian basin forest margins; and non-Andean crop margins. Forages, mainly grasses, are used to different degrees in mainly mixed and diversified crop-livestock farming syslems. The range of species, both temperate and tropical, is wide and increasing. Seed supply is variable, but limited by the range and availabilily of materials, variable quality of tropical grasses and high prices. Seed systems tend to be informal and incipient, especially with tropical species. This paper describes five seed projects and seed enterprises and draws generalisations from …

Genetics Of Latin American Diversity Project: Insights Into Population Genetics And Association Studies In Admixed Groups In The Americas, Victor Borda, Douglas P. Loesch, Bing Guo, Roland Laboulaye, Diego Veliz-Otani, Jennifer N. French, Thiago Peixoto Leal, John Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, Joanne E. Curran

School of Medicine Publications

Latin Americans are underrepresented in genetic studies, increasing disparities in personalized genomic medicine. Despite available genetic data from thousands of Latin Americans, accessing and navigating the bureaucratic hurdles for consent or access remains challenging. To address this, we introduce the Genetics of Latin American Diversity (GLAD) Project, compiling genome-wide information from 53,738 Latin Americans across 39 studies representing 46 geographical regions. Through GLAD, we identified heterogeneous ancestry composition and recent gene flow across the Americas. Additionally, we developed GLAD-match, a simulated annealing-based algorithm, to match the genetic background of external samples to our database, sharing summary statistics (i.e., allele and …

Access To Treatment For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease In The Americas: A Call For Action A Joint Perspective From The Brazilian Thoracic Society, Canadian Thoracic Society, Latin American Thoracic Society, And The American Thoracic Society, Francesca Polverino, Mohit Bhutani, Gustavo Zabert, Frederico Leon Arrabal Fernandes, Karen Czischke, Luiz Fernando Pereira Ferreira, Lian Szabo, Juan P Wisnivesky, Margareth Pretti Dalcolmo, Juan C Celedón

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major public health problem in the Americas (a region of the world comprising North, Central, and South America), although there is substantial variation in disease prevalence, morbidity, and mortality between and within nations. Across the Americas, COPD disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, including minoritized populations and impoverished persons, who are more likely to be exposed to risk factors such as tobacco use, air pollution, infections such as tuberculosis, and biomass smoke, but less likely to have adequate healthcare access. Management of COPD can be challenging across the Americas, with some barriers being specific to …

On A Night Of A Thousand Stars: The Tragic History Behind Argentina’S Dirty War, Clay B. Wiley

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Analyzing Andrea Yaryura Clark's On the Night of a Thousand Stars, this book review essay places the novel taking place during Argentina's Dirty War and examines its quality for teaching readers about the military junta that ruled the country in the late 1970s and 80s. By examining historical events and how they affect each character in the novel, the author evaluates and compares each with how they are portrayed in history. In addition to these evaluations, the author also reflects on his own experience in learning about Argentina's Dirty War for the first time in a Latin American History …

The Race To Invest: What Is The Driving Cause Of The European Union's Increased Involvement In Latin America?, Bryson C. Frank, Soo Bin Im, Alyssa Powell

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

This article analyzes the rhetoric of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and high-level EU leaders who speak about the EU’s role in Latin America and the role of China in the region. To what extent are MEPs and other EU officials concerned about Chinese expansion and is China the reason why the EU seeks increased collaboration with Latin American partners? Our paper documents who in the EU is advocating for increased ties with Latin American countries, why they are doing so, and whether the influence of China is inducing rhetorical changes in EU foreign policy. Findings suggest that while …

The Institutional Impact Of Left-Leaning Populism In Latin America, Nicolas Cachanosky, Joao Pedro Bastos, Alexandre Padilla, Karla C. Hernandez

Hunt Institute Working Paper Series

We study the institutional impact of 21st-century left-leaning populist regimes in Latin America. Looking at the representative left-leaning populist regimes in Argentina, Bo-livia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, we find that these types of populist regimes impose a significant undermining on the liberal-democracy institutional quality of their countries. The institutional cost is both significant and long-lasting, and our synthetic counterfactual suggests that liberal democratic institutions would have im-proved if not for these populist regimes.

Molecular Testing Of Environmental Samples As A Potential Source To Estimate Parasite Infection, Rojelio Mejia, Barton Slatko, Cristina Almazan, Ruben Cimino, Alejandro Krolewiecki, Natalia Montellano Duran, Jacob Edwin Valera Aspetty, Paola Andrea Vargas, Chiara Cássia Oliveira Amorim, Stefan Michael Geiger, Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, Juan David Ramirez, Luz Marina Llangarí-Arizo, Irene Guadalupe, Liliana E Villanueva-Lizama, Julio Vladimir Cruz-Chan, María Leticia Ojeda, Eva Mereles Aranda, Sandra Ocampos Benedetti, Maritza Dalí Camones Rivera, Eddyson Montalvo Sabino, Carlos Pineda, Eric J Wetzel, Philip J Cooper

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

We discuss the potential usefulness of molecular testing of soil, dust, and water samples to detect medically important parasites, and where such testing could be used to supplement stool sampling in humans. A wide variety of parasites including protozoa and helminths, many of which are zoonotic, have an important infection reservoir in the environment. In some cases, this environmental period is essential for further parasite development. We describe the progress in implementing methods for the molecular detection of these parasites in soil across eight collaborating centers in Latin America and represent a variety of potential applications in improving our understanding …

Notes From The Field - A Militarização Do Espaço Urbano Do Rio De Janeiro: Grupos Armados, Forças De Segurança E Forças Armadas E A Disputa Por Território, Thiago Sardinha

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

The Militarization of the Urban Space of Rio de Janeiro is the synthesis of different historical processes: The state through massive incarceration of black and racialized people, and the systematic elimination of black poor people from favelas through urban policing operations by security and armed forces, traffic patrols, and paramilitary/vigilante groups. Together, they result in the production of different actors that exert violent territorial domination for economic exploitation and social control.

Gnsi Decision Brief: Free Venezuela! The Opportunity For A Return To Democracy, Robert S. Burrell, Homer Harkins

GNSI Decision Briefs

Nicolás Maduro remains a weak and unpopular dictator, only retaining power in Venezuela through internal violent repression, nefarious international support, and paramilitary assistance from violent transnational criminal organizations. Limited, targeted sanctions designed to discourage political repression and criminal cooperation remain ineffective as they have been evaded and ignored. The Venezuelan regime has effectively countered multinational diplomatic efforts by using approximately $28 billion in regional economic support to undermine the will of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations push for a return to democracy in Venezuela.i A full-spectrum national resistance campaign including, if necessary, the use of …

La Viuda Del Panamá -- A Sixteenth-Century Novel, Maria Cecilia Herrera Astua

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

La Viuda del Panamá es una novela histórica acerca de Sir Francis Drake y su amante, María Isabel Domínguez--una viuda mestiza de quien él se enamora cuando ella lo salva de una muerte segura. Isabel oculta su ascendencia india porque, en el pueblito Nombre de Dios, esa circunstancia es un pecado social. Mas al corregidor don Pedro—un viudo quien ha tenido un matrimonio infernal—no le interesa la pureza de sangre. Nacido en un hogar judeo-musulmán, don Pedro se enamora de Isabel desde el día en que ella lo atiende en la posada La Costeña y decide ofrecerle un futuro impensable …

Why Has Peace Not Come To Colombia? Between Total Peace And Armed Peace, César Niño

Journal of Strategic Security

This research asks why peace has not come to Colombia despite the end of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Total Peace is an ambitious project of Gustavo Petro’s government to build the elusive peace in Colombia. However, the country's current security and violence situation shows a crisis in realizing the peace project. New criminal actors are proliferating, massacres are increasing, the confinement of marginal populations is on the rise, and ambushes against members of the security forces continue. The disconnection of the Total Peace policy with the security and defense policy has led to the strengthening of armed structures …

Populism’S Influence On News Content: Polarization, Political Parallelism, And Journalistic Professionalism In Rafael Correa’S Ecuador, Manel Palos Pons

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This article investigates how populism in power influenced news media in Ecuador during leftist president Rafael Correa’s presidency (2007–2017). Correa’s administration triggered a bold media reform in Ecuador challenging traditional media and promising media democratization, but his government received sharp denunciations from press freedom and media organizations which considered Ecuador as a “not free” country, especially after the passing of a Communication Law in 2013 that regulated media extensively. Through content analysis of news and opinion pieces published in 2005, 2006, 2015, 2016, and 2018 by Ecuador’s main legacy newspapers, El Comercio and El Universo, different legal and political contexts …

Paradoxes And Potential Of Tourism Development In Nicaragua, Cody J. Silveira

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation research evaluates the successes and challenges of tourism integration and expansion as both a broad human development strategy and a catalyst for local populations to achieve greater economic and social opportunities. The country of Nicaragua serves as the primary case study for such an evaluation due to its relatively recent promotion and expansion of tourism through government led incentives and oversight. As a case study, Nicaragua is a country whose tourism industry remains nascent, yet commands great economic potential and influence, which can serve as an example for future tourism development initiatives for developing countries in the region …

Missed Exits: Causal Mechanisms Influencing Militarized Interstate Dispute Escalation In Latin America, Colton Arciniaga

Undergraduate Theses, Capstones, and Recitals

Research on militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) and the reasons for their escalation to interstate war is sparse at the global level and the regional level in Latin America. This thesis contributes new research on militarized interstate dispute escalation in Latin America. In this project, I ask: how do differences in conflict escalation indicators between states affect whether a Latin American country will participate in a Militarized Interstate Dispute that escalates to the use of force? To answer this question, I conduct a case study utilizing the most similar cases analysis approach to compare the cases of the 1995 MID between …

Latin American Trans-Ancestry Initiative For Ocd Genomics (Latino): Study Protocol, James J Crowley, Carolina Cappi, Marcos E Ochoa-Panaifo, Renee M Frederick, Minjee Kook, Andrew D Wiese, Diana Rancourt, Elizabeth G Atkinson, Paola Giusti-Rodriguez, Jacey L Anderberg, Latin American Trans‐Ancestry Initiative For Ocd Genomics, Brazilian Obsessive‐Compulsive Spectrum Disorder Working Group, Jonathan S Abramowitz, Victor R Adorno, Cinthia Aguirre, Gilberto S Alves, Gustavo S Alves, Naeshia Ancalade, Alejandro A Arellano Espinosa, Paul D Arnold, Daphne M Ayton, Izabela G Barbosa, Laura Marcela Barón Castano, Cynthia N Barrera, María Celeste Berardo, Dayan Berrones, John R Best, Tim B Bigdeli, Christie L Burton, Joseph D Buxbaum, Jennifer L Callahan, Maria Cecília B Carneiro, Sandra L Cepeda, Evelyn Chazelle, Jessica M Chire, Macarena Churruca Munoz, Pamela Claisse Quiroz, Journa Cobite, Jonathan S Comer, Daniel L Costa, Jennifer Crosbie, Victor O Cruz, Guillermo Dager, Luisa F Daza, Anabel De La Rosa-Gómez, Daniela Del Río, Fernanda Z Delage, Carolina B Dreher, Lucila Fay, Tomas Fazio, Ygor A Ferrão, Gabriela M Ferreira, Edith G Figueroa, Leonardo F Fontenelle, Diego A Forero, Daniele T H Fragoso, Bharathi S Gadad, Sheldon R Garrison, Andres González, Laura D Gonzalez, Marco A González, Polaris Gonzalez-Barrios, Wayne K Goodman, Dorothy E Grice, Jerry Guintivano, Daniel G Guttfreund, Andrew G Guzick, Matthew W Halvorsen, Joseph D Hovey, Hailiang Huang, Jonathan Irreño-Sotomonte, Reinhard Janssen-Aguilar, Matias Jensen, Alexandra Z Jimenez Reynolds, Joali Alexandra Juárez Lujambio, Nasim Khalfe, Madison A Knutsen, Caleb Lack, Nuria Lanzagorta, Monicke O Lima, Melanie O Longhurst, David A Lozada Martinez, Elba S Luna, Andrea H Marques, Molly S Martinez, Maria De Los Angeles Matos, Caitlyn E Maye, Joseph F Mcguire, Gabriela Menezes, Charlene Minaya, Tomás Miño, Sara M Mithani, Circe Montes De Oca, Alonso Morales-Rivero, Maria E Moreira-De-Oliveira, Olivia J Morris, Sandra I Muñoz, Zainab Naqqash, Ambar A Núñez Bracho, Belinda E Núñez Bracho, Maria Corina Ochoa Rojas, Luis A Olavarria Castaman, Trinidad Olivos Balmaceda, Iliana Ortega, Darpan I Patel, Ainsley K Patrick, Mariel Paz Y Mino, Jose L Perales Orellana, Bárbara Perdigão Stumpf, Tamara Peregrina, Tania Pérez Duarte, Kelly L Piacsek, Maritza Placencia, María Belén Prieto, Lucas C Quarantini, Yana Quarantini-Alvim, Renato T Ramos, Iaroslava C Ramos, Vanessa R Ramos, Kesley A Ramsey, Elise V Ray, Margaret A Richter, Bradley C Riemann, Juan C Rivas, Maria C Rosario, Camilo J Ruggero, Angel A Ruiz-Chow, Alejandra Ruiz-Velasco, Melisa N Sagarnaga, Aline S Sampaio, Leonardo C Saraiva, Russell J Schachar, Sophie C Schneider, Ethan J Schweissing, Laura D Seligman, Roseli G Shavitt, Keaton J Soileau, S Evelyn Stewart, Shaina B Storch, Emily R Strouphauer, Vissente Tapia Cuevas, Kiara R Timpano, Beatriz Treviño-De La Garza, Alexie Vallejo-Silva, Javier Vargas-Medrano, María I Vásquez, Guadalupe Vidal Martinez, Saira A Weinzimmer, Mauricio A Yanez, Gwyneth Zai, Lina M Zapata-Restrepo, Luz M Zappa, Raquel M Zepeda-Burgos, Anthony W Zoghbi, Euripedes C Miguel, Carolyn I Rodriguez, Mayra C Martinez Mallen, Pablo R Moya, Tania Borda, María Beatriz Moyano, Manuel Mattheisen, Stacey Pereira, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, Karen G Martinez-Gonzalez, Michele T Pato, Humberto Nicolini, Eric A Storch

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder. Worldwide, its prevalence is ~2% and its etiology is mostly unknown. Identifying biological factors contributing to OCD will elucidate underlying mechanisms and might contribute to improved treatment outcomes. Genomic studies of OCD are beginning to reveal long-sought risk loci, but >95% of the cases currently in analysis are of homogenous European ancestry. If not addressed, this Eurocentric bias will result in OCD genomic findings being more accurate for individuals of European ancestry than other ancestries, thereby contributing to health disparities in potential future applications of genomics. In this study protocol paper, we …

Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Hematological Health In Latin America, Lina M. Barrios, Ms

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Hematological malignancies, also known as blood cancers, such as leukemia, lymphomas, and myelomas, are a significant health concern globally. The incidence of these malignancies has dramatically increased over time, leukemias being the leading cause. The incidence of blood cancers in Latin America exhibits regional variability, with leukemia being the emerging cause as the most prevalent type in children and young adults. However, the overall incidences are oddly lower than in developed countries, potentially due to the underreporting of the cases and the lack of cancer registries. This situation implies a critical need for improving surveillance and data collection methods to …

Latin American Participation In The Current Process Of Economic Globalization, Sullivan D. Padgett

Journal of Global Awareness

From World War II to the present, Latin America has participated in the current process of economic globalization to varying degrees. The Washington Consensus of the late twentieth century supplanted the region’s earlier model of state-led development and increased its participation in the global capitalist regime. However, Latin America has shown minimal participation in the current process of economic globalization since the late 2000s and, instead, espouses regionalization. Nevertheless, regionalization has proven to be an arduous undertaking in Latin America, especially with China’s increasing regional influence. Variations of benefits are discussed, and recommendations are offered. While the future of Latin …