MATILDA Latin American Open Chair: An international cooperation initiative to increase women in engineering

In the first years after Cuba's 1959 revolution, the island's new government provided international medical assistance to countries affected by natural disasters or armed conflicts. Step by step, a more structural complementary program for international collaboration was put in place. The relief operations after Hurricane Mitch, which struck Central America in 1998, were pivotal. From November 1998 onward, the “Integrated Health Program” was the cornerstone of Cuba's international cooperation. The intense cooperation with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela became another cornerstone. Complementary to the health programs abroad, Cuba also set up international programs at home, benefiting tens of thousands of foreign patients and disaster victims. In a parallel program, medical training is offered to international students in the Latin American Medical School in Cuba and, increasingly, also in their home countries. The importance and impact of these initiatives, however, cannot and should not be analyzed solely in public health terms.

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Ecuador: Putting an End to Ghosts of the Past?

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs ◽

10.2307/165809 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 195-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Fernando Bustamante

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

International Cooperation ◽

Free Trade ◽

Latin American ◽

Foreign Minister ◽

Free Trade Zone ◽

The Past ◽

Political Economic

In 1991, Ecuador's foreign policy had to deal with the revival of its old border conflict with Peru. Nevertheless, this time the situation offered some hope — in contrast to previous occasions, the most recent being the Paquisha incident in 1982 — that the longstanding impasse between the two countries, which had hindered closer cooperation and greater integration for decades, might be nearing some sort of resolution at last.During the first two years of his administration, President Rodrigo Borja and his Foreign Minister Diego Cordovez were primarily concerned with incorporating Ecuador into some of the Latin American efforts at international cooperation — political, economic, and commercial — which had emerged during the 1980s, such as the Rio Group, or which had been redefined and advanced in new, more creative forms, such as those exemplified by the Cartagena Group, the Asociación Latinoamericana de Integratión (ALADI), the proposed Andean Free Trade Zone, and the like.

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The Comintern after the end of the Comintern. Some episodes of search of new forms of unity by Latin American Communists

Latinskaia Amerika ◽

10.31857/s0044748x0016570-6 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 17

Author(s):

Victor Jeifets

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

International Cooperation ◽

Latin American ◽

Central Committee ◽

Socialist Party ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Left Wing ◽

Optimal Model ◽

Important Center

The article analyzes the evolution of various forms of international cooperation between Latin American Communist Parties and the ways of their interaction with Moscow after the dissolution of the Comintern. The search for an optimal model of interaction was often carried out on the initiative of the Communist Parties themselves and led to the formation of the CP of Guatemala as also to the restoration of the unity of the Venezuelan CP (in the latter case, due to the efforts of the Cuban Popular Socialist Party). The international communist movement and the CPSU, which claimed the role of its leader, initiated a serie of conferences with a purpose to discuss complex problems of relations between Left-Wing parties. At the same time, the CPSU took over the function of training personnel in its own educational institutions (the Institute of Social Sciences and the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU). The international journal “World Marxist Review” has also become an important center for coordinating the activities of parties and developing new approaches to strategy and tactics.

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DYNAMICS OF AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION AND RESISTANCE

REVISTA NERA ◽

10.47946/rnera.v0i17.1350 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 29-48

Author(s):

Henry Veltmeyer

Keyword(s):

International Cooperation ◽

Latin American ◽

Social Transformation ◽

Development Process ◽

Rural Poor ◽

Capitalist Development ◽

Progressive Change ◽

Capitalist System ◽

Agrarian Society ◽

Agrarian Transformation

The paper analyses in the Latin American context the dynamics associated with the capitalist development process, namely, the productive and social transformation of an agrarian society and economy into a modern industrial capitalist system. This process implies a process of primitive accumulation (separation of the direct producers from the land) and the proletarianization of the peasantry. The project of development with international cooperation was designed and serves to assist the dispossessed rural poor in adjusting to the forces of progressive change released in the process, rather than resisting them. The paper also deals with the resistance of the rural landless workers and other elements of the peasantry against the neoliberal model of capitalist development that threatens the viability and sustainability of their livelihoods.

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