Chapter 11. Latin American Food Labelling: Review and Recent Developments

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Marcela Reyes ◽  
Camila Corvalan
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Food Labelling ◽  
Recent Developments

Protection of the Individual in Recent Private International Law Codification in Latin America

2019 ◽  
pp. 251-267
Author(s):  
Sebastián Paredes
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Traditional Approaches

This chapter presents an overview of the recent developments in Latin American private international law acts and civil codes for cross-border cases. International jurisdiction, applicable law and international judicial co-operation in recent private international law rules contained in national sources are the focus of analysis with special attention to solutions given by traditional approaches and theories but also by modern ones like the possibility to use non-State law for access to justice or for international commercial contracts. Other questions addressed in this chapter are: Is the protection of individuals improved in these new laws? How Latin Americans seek to deal with the decisive upsurge of human rights principles in post-modern private international law and cross border relationships and to fulfil access to justice?

An Emerging Social Ethics

Pneuma ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 477-499
Author(s):  
Néstor Medina
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Historical Origins ◽  
Latin American Population

Abstract This article proposes that a new pentecostal social ethic is emerging in the region. Examining recent developments of Pentecostalism in Latin America along with Latin American scholars, I will discuss, in thematic form, some of the recent developments affecting pentecostal movements in the region from revising its historical origins, celebrating its internal diversity, reconsidering political involvement, reclaiming the crucial role of women’s contributions, to developing a social ethics seeking to respond in relevant ways to the social issues confronted by the Latin American population. Though the influence of liberation theology is noticeable, these groups are drawing on the pentecostal experience to reinterpret their relationship with the larger social context and internally. Particular attention is given to the great internal diversity within pentecostal movements in Latin America

Rheumatological disorders

2013 ◽  
pp. 268-289
Author(s):  
Steve Ryder ◽  
Karen Walker-Bone
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Upper Limb ◽  
Inflammatory Arthritis ◽  
Spinal Disorders ◽  
Pain Syndromes ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Rheumatic Conditions ◽  
Upper Limb Disorders

Musculoskeletal pain affects up to 50 per cent of the population at any one time. Consequently, low back pain, neck pain, and upper limb disorders are important causes of sickness absence. Spinal disorders, including back pain, are covered in detail in Chapter 11, and will not be discussed further here. Instead this chapter will focus on the other common rheumatological disorders, including upper limb disorders (specific and non-specific), osteoarthritis (OA), inflammatory arthritis, connective tissue disorders, and widespread pain syndromes. Many rheumatological conditions are chronic and potentially disabling but there have been recent developments in medical therapies, especially in the inflammatory rheumatic conditions, which offer the prospect of controlling disease activity, reducing disability, improving quality of life, and enabling work.

scholarly journals An Attorney's Perspective on Emerging New Venture Opportunities for Petroleum Projects in Latin America

1995 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Jay G. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Potential Risks

This article discusses the potential for new opportunities in the petroleum industry in Latin American countries. The author states that investment in Latin American petroleum projects is required in order to meet energy needs and environmental requirements. After surveying the history, politics and investment climate in Latin America, the author discusses the investment opportunities that have arisen in Latin America as well as the potential risks associated with these investments. He then discusses environmental concerns and other recent developments that impact on petroleum investments. The author examines key issues arising out of petroleum agreements between investors and Latin American governments and outlines the various petroleum agreements currently in use. To conclude, the author discusses the role of legal advisors in assisting clients in making successful investments in Latin American petroleum projects.

Latin America and the Primary Product Trade

1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Junguito
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Alternative Control ◽  
Foreign Earnings ◽  
Primary Products ◽  
Control Schemes ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue

The impact on Latin American economies stemming from recent developments of the primary product markets is analyzed in this article. Brief comments are also offered on the political stands these countries have adopted or are considering adopting as a result of the ongoing dialogue taking place at both the academic and political levels on the new international economic order.Rather than pursue the traditional route of first reviewing major problems that primary product trade has imposed on economic development efforts and then recounting alternative control schemes adopted in primary trade, this article focuses primarily on the degree to which Latin America is dependent on primary products as a source of foreign exchange earnings, and second on the influence, relative to other developing countries (LDCs), that primary products have had on foreign earnings, export instability, and terms of trade.

scholarly journals The Latin American Labor Studies Boom

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. French
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Labor History ◽  
World Market ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Labor Studies ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of

The contemporary North Atlantic world has been marked by a waning enthusiasm for and salience of the study of workers. Yet the current ebb “in the traditional capitalist ‘core’ countries” (not to mention eastern Europe), Marcel van der Linden recently suggested, is far from being a “crisis” in the field of labor history as such. Rather, it is best understood as “only a regional phenomenon” since in much of “the so-called Third World, especially in the countries of the industrializing semi-periphery, interest in the history of labor and proletarian protest is growing steadily”. Citing encouraging recent developments in labor history in Asia, he noted how the field has grown in parallel with “the stormy conquest of economic sectors by the world market [which] has led to a rapid expansion of the number of waged workers, and the emergence of new radical trade unions”. Van der Linden's description fits well the study of labor in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the field first gained visibility in the early to mid-1980s and has now won recognition as an established specialization among scholars of many disciplines. After surveying the Latin American boom and its political context, this article offers a Brazilian/North Atlantic example in order to illustrate the intellectual gains, for students of both areas, that come with the transcendence of geographical parochialism.

Searching for El Dorado: Performance and Ritual in Early Latin America

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (16) ◽  
pp. 330-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Versényi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
World View ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
El Dorado

The quasi-theatrical kinds of performance-ritual which existed in pre-Columbian Latin America have been little investigated, and are almost entirely neglected by English-speaking theatre scholars. In NTQ 8, Robert Potter looked at ways in which the missionaries who followed in the wake of the Spanish conquistadores tried to adapt Aztec rituals to their own proselytizing purposes: and here, Adam Versényi, in the first of a series of articles on early Latin American performance, provides an overview of the ways in which the great pre-Columbian civilizations embraced performance into their often-unfamiliar world view – suggesting that in some cases the cosmogony expressed through the dramatic rituals made them particularly ill-equipped to confront the ‘otherness’ of the invading Spaniards. Adam Versényi is currently preparing a study which parallels recent developments in Liberation Theology and Liberation Theatre in Latin America.

Ritual Meets the Postmodern: Contemporary Mexican Theatre

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 221-225
Author(s):  
Adam Versényi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
American Society ◽  
Latin American Theatre

Adam Versényi here considers responses to the call for a new kind of Latin American theatre, combining anthropological awareness of the area's history and culture with the technical abilities and thematic sophistication of western theatre, through an analysis of two plays which suggests both the benefits and pitfalls of such an approach. These are Nahui Ollin, a shadow-puppet play dramatizing episodes from Nahuatl cosmogeny, and Los enemigos, a contemporary adaptation of the unique Mayan script, the Rabinal Achí. Adam Versényi has written widely on the theatre of Latin America, including a study of recent developments in liberation theology and liberation theatre, and for NTQ two articles on earlier periods – in NTQ16 (1988), on the theatricality of pre-Columbian performance rituals, and in NTQ19 (1989) on the adaptation of Aztec rituals by the mendicant friars who came in the wake of Cortés – this piece being selected as the ‘Younger Scholar's Prizewinning Article’ of the year by the American Society for Theatre Research.

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