scholarly journals The Latin-American Union and the LAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Luis F. Copertari

Objective. To support the creation of a Latin-American Union with the creation of the Latin-American peso (LAT) as the common currency. Methodology. Analysis and synthesis using induction and deduction proposing theory and reviewing its validity. Results. The LAT can be used as a robust enough currency. Limitations. The study was carried out only for the three main Latin-American Union candidates: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Originality. The ideas proposed here are original in the way the LAT is meant to function. Conclusions. The LAT promises to be a good option for stabilizing Latin-America and promote its regional development.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 1239
Author(s):  
Carlos Hakansson

Resumen:El presente trabajo es una primera aproximación a las diversas manifestacionesdel constitucionalismo en América Latina, a partir de algunas referencias comunes: Revolución Francesa, Derecho Comparado y alusiones a la modernidad. Summary:I. The common traits of the latin american constitutions. II. Content of the latin american constitutions. III. The degree of modernity of the latin american constitutions. IV. Constitutional trends. V. An approach to ibero-american presidential model. VI. Prospects for latin american constitutionalism.Abstract:The present paper is a first approximation on the diverse manifestations of the constitutionalism in Latin America, starting from some common references: French Revolution, Comparative Law, and allusions to modernity.


Comunicar ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 193-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Mellado-Ruiz

Based on an historical analysis of the last five decades of research, this article analyzes the elements that define the journalism in Latin America. The work is based on the common social structures and the fact that journalism mediates in the construction of reality throughout the region, proposing a model that describes the individual, organizational and social aspects that have influenced the development of the profession. The results indicate that the educational problems linked to both the identity and the autonomy of the profession, the cultural value associated to professional practice, the existence and reach of the Teachers Associations, political and economic peculiarities, and the considerable influence exercised by Europe and the United States, are all aspects that make Latin American journalism different journalism in the rest of the world. Still, despite these similarities, neither a shared conceptualization nor a homologated operationalization of the profession exists in Latin America.En base a un recorrido histórico de las últimas cinco décadas, este artículo analiza los elementos que hoy definen a la profesión periodística en Latinoamérica. El trabajo se sostiene en las estructuras sociales compartidas por la región, así como en la función de mediación que el periodismo cumple en la construcción de la realidad, proponiendo un modelo que describe los aspectos individuales, organizacionales y sociales que han influido en su desarrollo. Se concluye que los problemas de formación vinculados a la identidad y a la autonomía de la profesión, el valor cultural dado a la carrera profesional, la existencia y alcance de los colegios profesionales, las peculiaridades políticas y económicas, y la gran influencia extranjera ejercida por Europa y EEUU, son los aspectos que diferencian al periodismo latinoamericano del resto del mundo. Sin embargo, se plantea la inexistencia de una conceptualización y operacionalización homologada de la profesión en el sub-continente.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 654-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar G Encarnación

This essay examines the conditions that enable a ‘gay rights backlash’ through a comparison of the United States and Latin America. The United States, the cradle of the contemporary gay rights movement, is the paradigmatic example of a gay rights backlash. By contrast, Latin America, the most Catholic of regions, introduced gay rights at a faster pace than the United States without much in the way of a backlash. Collectively, this analysis demonstrates that a gay rights backlash hinges upon organisationally-rich ‘backlashers’ and an environment that is receptive to homophobic messages, a point underscored by the American experience. But the Latin American experience shows that the counter-framing to the backlash can minimise and even blunt the effects of the backlash.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Lydia S. Cidale

AbstractProf. Jorge Sahade (1915–2012) was the first Latin American President of the International Astronomical Union (1985–1988). From then on, he had a very active participation as president, vice-president, and organizing committee member of several Commissions and Divisions of the IAU, related to stellar astrophysics and exchange of astronomers. Prof. J. Sahade was born in Argentina and was one of the first students graduated in astronomy at the National University of La Plata. He served as director of the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba (1953–1955) and of the Observatory of La Plata (1968–1969). He was the first Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the National University of La Plata. He promoted the purchase of a 2.15-m diameter telescope, today located in the Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito, San Juan, Argentina. He founded the Institute of Astronomy and Physics of Space (IAFE) in Buenos Aires and was its first director (1971–1974). He was also director of the “Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales” (the Argentina Space Activity Agency) and promoted the inclusion of Argentina as a partnership of the Gemini Observatory. Prof. Sahade also focused on the development of the astronomy in Latin America and this led to the creation of the “Liga Latinoamericana de Astronomía” (nowadays LIADA).His research field was interacting binary systems and he published about 150 papers, among them is the well-known discovery of the “Struve-Sahade effect”. I met him when he was 70 years old; he was a very enthusiastic astronomer, who travellled everywhere to promote the astronomy in Latin America (Argentina, Perú, Honduras). Among his last dreams was the creation of a Latin American Institute to develop and enhance astrophysics in South and Central America, the revival of UV astronomy and many more impressive works that he would have liked to end and publish.


2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Luis Martínez Andrade

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Praktyka Teoretyczna journal, we have invited our long-lasting collaborators and comrades to reflect once again on the concept of the common and its possible futures by posing the following questions: a) what is the most important aspect of the current struggles for the common?; b) what are the biggest challenges for the commonist politics of the future?; and c) where in the ongoing struggles do you see a potential for scaling-up and spreading organisation based on the common? In his reply, Luis Martinez Andrade situates his answer in the Latin American context by drawing our attention to the contemporary struggles of communitarian feminists and indigenous movements.


Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 677-684
Author(s):  
Jorge Martínez-Barrera

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show a surprising coincidence between Lutheran Protestantism and physicalist neurosciences regarding the negation of free will and how this issue can begin to be studied in Latin American academia. The current advance of Protestantism in Latin America, accompanied by a decline in Catholicism, is simultaneous with a growing presence of the physicalist neurosciences. It can be seen that the development of Protestantism and neurosciences coincide historically in Latin America, unlike what happened in other parts of the world, where Protestantism has a much more extensive history. This allows us to suppose that the discussion on free will will be installed as a matter of research and discussion in the Latin American academia, which had not happened until now. In this work we also seek to identify what could be the common element that unites the Lutheran conception and the arguments of the physicalist neurosciences about the negation of free will. We will show that this common element is the aversion to metaphysics as an explanatory dimension of free will. The strong opposition to metaphysics is probably the most important common element between Lutheran Protestantism and the physicalistic neurosciences. This will allow us to show that the proximity between the two is not such an extravagant idea.


2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Pablo Buchbinder ◽  

The aim of the article is to study the repercussions of the beginning of the Spanish Second Republic and the rebellion of July 18 in various Latin American countries. The cases of Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are studied in particular. These repercussions are analyzed in the framework of the rise of dictatorial and authoritarian governments in most of these countries with the exception of Mexico since the early 1930s. The way in which governments, the Spanish immigrant com-munities and the different social groups in these countries acted in the face of both episodes are studied. The repercussions generated by the anticlerical policy of the first government of the second republic are an-alyzed, especially in the face of the dissolution of the company of Jesus and the introduction of secular education. The tensions that these poli-cies provoked in Argentina and Chile and the support that the second republic obtained in Mexico are analyzed. On the other hand, the way in which the news of the uprising of July 18, 1936 was received is studied. The support for the army by the governments of Uruguay and Chile and, again, the support that the Spanish legal government obtained in Mexico is analyzed.


Author(s):  
Nicolás Terradas

Latin America is often hailed as “the most peaceful region in the world.” In both academic and policy circles, this view has taken root under the common perception of the region as a “zone of peace” where war and interstate armed conflict have largely disappeared and are now unthinkable. The region, however, continues to showcase high levels of intra-state violence despite the absence of war among states. In the IR academic debate of the long peace in Latin America, as well, several areas of discord and intense disagreement among the multiple works continue to challenge any encompassing explanations for this rather paradoxical regional phenomenon. In this context, for those interested in conducting further research in this area, there still is plenty of space for making meaningful contributions to both the theoretical study of regional peace dynamics as well as the unravelling of Latin America’s paradoxical coexistence of intra-state violence amid enduring inter-state peace.


Author(s):  
Mtra. Silvana Lorena Lagoria

Desde fines de la década de los ochenta y comienzos de los noventa, se produjo en América Latina una serie de cambios que permitían vislumbrar un panorama desafiante para la educación regional. En ese contexto, nos proponemos reconstruir el escenario político-educativo latinoamericano y argentino, con el fin de comprender los desafíos y los cambios que debe enfrentar la educación superior actual. Para alcanzar nuestro propósito, en las páginas siguientes analizaremos el modo en que se fue configurando una nueva agenda educativa en el contexto de las políticas globales de los años noventa. Paralelamente, haremos referencia a un caso particular: la educación argentina. Teniendo como marco referencial los cambios que se gestaron en esa época y proyectándonos más hacia nuestros días, al final del trabajo concluiremos con un apartado donde nos dedicaremos a reflexionar acerca del modo en que estos cambios influyen en la educación superior y el panorama que se vislumbra en este nivel.AbstractSince the end of ‘80s and the beginning of ‘90s, followed a series of changes in Latin America that allow to visualize a challenging future for regional education. In this context, we propose to reconstruct the context socio-political-educative of Latin American and Argentina, in order to understand the challenges and changes that higher education must confront today. To achieve our objectives in the following pages we will analyze the way it was setting up a new educational agenda in the context of global politics of the ‘90s. In parallel, we will make reference to a particular case: education in Argentina. Taking as a reference the changes that were generated at this time and projecting towards the present day, at the end of this work we will conclude with a section dedicated to reflect how these changes affect higher education and the panorama glimpsed at this level. Recibido: 05 de marzo de 2012Aceptado: 03 de septiembre de 2012


2018 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Mariela Cecilia Avila

ResumenEn el presente artículo se reflexiona sobre la construcción de un “Otro” durante las últimas dictaduras militares del Cono Sur latinoamericano. Para ello, se hace uso de las categorías de “genocidio” y “etnocidio” desde la perspectiva del antropólogo Pierre Clastres. El análisis permite poner en diálogo dichas categorías con el modo en que se identificó y configuró una individualidad considerada una amenaza para el modelo político y económico que se buscaba implementar. Se explicita aquí el modo en que la construcción de una otredad disidente ameritó prácticas de tortura, muerte y exilio, en aras de la construcción de un proyecto político unitario y hegemónico que no admitía posibles diferencias.Palabras clave: Pierre Clastres- genocidio- etnocidio- Otro- dictaduras militares latinoamericanasAbstractThis article reflects on the construction of “otherness” during the last mili- tary dictatorships of Latin America. For this, categories of “genocide” and “ethnocide” are used from anthropologist Pierre Clastres’ perspective. The analysis puts these categories in dialogue about how an individuality was identified and configured as a threat to the political and economic model to be implemented. It makes explicit the way in which the construction of a dissident otherness deserved practices of torture, death and exile, in order to build a unitary and hegemonic political project that did not admit possible differences.Keywords: Pierre Clastres- genocide- ethnocide- Other- Latin American military dictatorshipsResumoNo presente artigo reflexiona-se filosoficamente sobre a construção de um Outro durante as últimas ditaduras militares do Cone Sul latino-americano. Para aquilo, se faz uso das categorias de “genocídio” e “etnocídio” desde a perspectiva do antropólogo Pierre Clastres. A análise permite pôr em diálogo ditas categorias com o modo em que se identificou e configurou uma individualidade considerada una ameaça para o modelo político e econômico que se buscava implementar. Explicita-se aqui o modo em que a construção de um outro dissidente envolveu práticas de tortura, morte e exílio, em prol da construção de um projeto político unitário e hegemônico que não admitia possíveis diferenças.Palavras-chave: Pierre Clastres- genocídio- etnocídio- Outro- ditaduras latino-americanas


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