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2012

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Full-Text Articles in Latin American Languages and Societies

Understanding Imf Stand-By Arrangements From The Perspective Of International And Domestic Law: The Experience Of Venezuela In The 1990s, Gabriel Garcia Nov 2012

Understanding Imf Stand-By Arrangements From The Perspective Of International And Domestic Law: The Experience Of Venezuela In The 1990s, Gabriel Garcia

Dr Gabriel Garcia

During the 1990s, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) promoted the so-called 'Washington Consensus'. One of the premises of the consensus was that developing countries needed to embrace a market economy and build a legal system supportive of the rule of law in order to promote progress and defeat poverty. The onset of financial crises across South America and the inability of governments to deal with problems derived from this financial meltdown provided the proitious conditions for the IMF to implement its agenda of promoting a market economy and the rule of …

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The Love Of Neighbors: Rosario Ferré’S Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios Eccéntricos, Keja L. Valens Oct 2012

The Love Of Neighbors: Rosario Ferré’S Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios Eccéntricos, Keja L. Valens

Keja Valens

Rosario Ferré’s position in one of Puerto Rico’s most important families and her status as one of the island’s most prolific and most vocally feminist authors render iconic her critiques of Puerto Rican “free association.” But as they struggle to disengage the binary structures of postcolonial patriarchy that constrain them, the women of Eccentric Neighborhoods walk in on possibilities rarely admitted in Ferré’s extensive body of work: English, statehood, and desire between women. The appeal of the titular eccentricity of places and people in Eccentric Neighborhoods is a new order of decentralized parity and plurality, a Caribbean feminist democratic ideal. …

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Fencing Off Love/ Feeding Off Love: Men In Love And The Women They Distrust In Machado De Assis's Ressurreição And Dom Casmurro, Diana Anselmo-Sequeira May 2012

Fencing Off Love/ Feeding Off Love: Men In Love And The Women They Distrust In Machado De Assis's Ressurreição And Dom Casmurro, Diana Anselmo-Sequeira

Diana Anselmo-Sequeira

As obras de Machado de Assis dramatizam as ansiedades vividas no seio da sociedade brasileira do fim de século XIX, especialmente as tensões sentidas entre uma masculinidade ameaçada e uma feminilidade emergente. Este artigo examina dois dos romances que melhor definem as mudanças estilísticas da vida literária de Machado - Ressurreição (1872), o seu primeiro livro moldado ao estilo europeu; e Dom Casmurro (1899, a obra que marcou a sua passagem para um tom único e realista. Analisando a complexa relação de despeito e ternura que instiga os principais pares amorosos retratados nestas duas obras, eu procuro argumentar que o …

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Americas And Caribbean Islands Union, Ruben B. Botello Jd Dec 2011

Americas And Caribbean Islands Union, Ruben B. Botello Jd

Ruben B Botello JD

Americas and Caribbean Islands Union

By Ruben Barrera Botello, JD

Immigration is a major issue in the United States today. U.S. Latinos often express interest in this issue because of its direct impact on their families, schools, jobs, communities and governmental affairs.

Latinos are Indigenous Americans whose ancestors suffered for centuries under European invaders and occupiers intent on stealing their lands and freedoms. Their native roots tie Latinos to Native Americans throughout the Western Hemisphere, traditionally, culturally and genetically. They remain attached, to their ancestral lands and freedoms, even though robbed of them by the foreign occupiers and their offspring. …

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El Performance Del Insulto En Los Albores De La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: 41 O El Muchacho Que Soñaba En Fantasmas De Paolo Po, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio Dec 2011

El Performance Del Insulto En Los Albores De La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: 41 O El Muchacho Que Soñaba En Fantasmas De Paolo Po, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio

Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio, Ph.D

No abstract provided.

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