Raúl L. Madrid, Retiring the State: The Politics of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Beyond. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Tables, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 319 pp.; hardcover $65, paperback $27.95.Alberto José Frick Cardelle, Health Care Reform in Central America: NGO-Government Collaboration in Guatemala and El Salvador. Coral Gables: North-South Center Press, 2003. Figures, tables, abbreviations, appendixes, bibliography, index, 200 pp.; hardcover $43.

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
Mary A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Central America ◽  
The State ◽  
Stanford University

The United States and the Rise of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Grieb
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Central America ◽  
American Politics ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Central American ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
The Military

The militarycoup d'étatwhich installed General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez as President of El Salvador during December 1931 created a crisis involving the 1923 Washington Treaties. By the terms of these accords, the Central American nadons had pledged to withhold recognition from governments seizing power through force in any of the isthmian republics. Although not a signatory of the treaty, the United States based its recognition policy on this principle. Through this means the State Department had attempted to impose some stability in Central America, by discouraging revolts. With the co-operation of the isthmian governments, United States diplomats endeavored to bring pressure to bear on the leaders of any uprising, to deny them the fruits of their victory, and thus reduce the constant series ofcoupsandcounter-coupsthat normally characterized Central American politics.

Fear and Loathing in Central America

2020 ◽  
pp. 295-306
Author(s):  
Russell Crandall
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Economic Action ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
The World

This chapter begins with Nils Gilman's seminal essay “The Twin Insurgency,” stating that gangs aim to carve out de facto zones of autonomy for themselves by crippling the state's ability to constrain their freedom of economic action. It talks about gangsters in Latin America that took advantage of the vulnerability of the states they operated in to such a degree that they frequently became shadow powers. It also details how gangs terrorized their host societies, using corruption, extortion, and bullets as their weapons of choice. The chapter cites the statistics that emphasized that the most violent cities in the world were in Latin America, clarifying that the statistics were a result of the impunity enjoyed by the region's criminal organizations, primarily those with ties to the illicit drug trade. It discusses how drug gangs often served as the de facto administrator of social services in slums, where the state failed to provide much of anything.

Why Tiempo is under attack

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Author(s):  
George Black
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Central America ◽  
North American ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The North ◽  
The Government

‘Those who are not with the government are considered enemies of Honduras, anti-patriots, Communists’ says Tiempo's editor, Manuel Gamero Honduras was until recently an area of calm in the stormy region of Central America. Now, however, its civilian government is hard-pressed by the armed forces who have involved the country in the struggle against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the guerrilla fighters in El Salvador. Both Honduras' press and university are coming increasingly under attack, as George Black, a British journalist who is on the staff of the North American Congress on Latin America in New York, here explains.

Strategy, Ideology, and Human Rights: Jimmy Carter Confronts the Left in Central America, 1979–1981

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Soares
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Central America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jimmy Carter

This article discusses the Carter administration's policies toward Nicaragua and El Salvador after the Sandinistas took power in Nicaragua in July 1979. These policies were influenced by the widespread perception at the time that Marxist revolutionary forces were in the ascendance and the United States was in retreat. Jimmy Carter was trying to move away from traditional American “interventionism” in Latin America, but he was also motivated by strategic concerns about the perception of growing Soviet and Cuban strength, ideological concerns about the spread of Marxism-Leninism, and political-humanitarian concerns about Marxist-Leninist regimes' systematic violations of human rights.

Administrative and legal aspects of the state policy of ensuring the national security of Ukraine in the field of health care at the present stage

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-173
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Komisarov ◽  
Yuriy Shvets
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
National Security ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
The State ◽  
Medical Reform ◽  
Care System

The article considers the main administrative and legal aspects of the state policy of national security of Ukraine in the field of health care. On this theoretical basis, the current challenges of medical reform are identified and proposals are developed to find the best ways to prevent and optimize them. Under the administrative and legal support of health care, we understand a set of organizational and legal forms and mechanisms to ensure socio-economic, health, anti-epidemic measures carried out by specialized organizations, the purpose of which is to preserve, strengthen and maintain human health, provide professional, high-quality and high-tech medical care to all who need it, as well as ensuring the availability of such care. It is concluded that the state policy of national security of Ukraine in the field of health care is aimed at creating such conditions for the health care system that allow for health education, disease prevention, provide medical care to citizens, conduct scientific research in the field of health care and training of medical and pharmaceutical workers, to maintain and develop the material and technical base of the health care system. Today in Ukraine the directions of the state policy of national security of Ukraine in the field of health care are determined by the European integration directions of our state and the commitments made by Ukraine in connection with the signing in June 2014 of the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and The EU, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other hand. However, the concept of health care reform in terms of its implementation to meet the relevant obligations has significant differences with the constitutional principle of free medical care, and therefore needs further refinement and improvement. It is substantiated that the highlighted topical issues of administrative and legal provision of health care should be taken into account in the implementation of the second stage of medical reform, which started on April 1, 2020. In addition, the experience of preventing and counteracting the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection should be an important aspect of health care reform.

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