“Subject People” and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947. By Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles. [SUNY Series in Society and Culture in Latin America.] (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 304. Tables. Notes. Index. $14.95.)

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-617
Author(s):  
Dain Borges
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Social Disorder

Policies seek to attract film-makers to Latin America

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Content Type ◽  
International Production ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Comparative Stability

Significance For film crews trained in Latin America and seeking to create their own domestic projects, this model also affords the possibility of attempting to persuade international film companies to shoot their films abroad. Impacts Puerto Rico will leverage its dollar economy and comparative stability to attract productions set in other regional locations. Fiscal issues, such as COVID-19-related spending constraints, could limit tax incentives at least during the pandemic recovery period. The presence of international production companies and investments may benefit local film industries as well as tourism promotion.

scholarly journals P749 Epidemiological and clinical characterisation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Latin America and the Caribbean: The EPI-LATAM IBD study from the Pan American Crohn’s colitis organisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S599-S600 ◽  
Author(s):  
J K Yamamoto-Furusho ◽  
N N Parra-Holguín ◽  
E Grupo-Colombiano ◽  
F Bosques-Padilla ◽  
G Veitia-Velásquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Steroid Resistance ◽  
Extraintestinal Manifestations ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Epidemiological Characteristics ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean

Abstract Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is currently recognised as a global health problem, since its incidence and prevalence have increased significantly worldwide in recent years. Studies in Latin America are only limited to reporting incidence and prevalence, so our main objective is to report the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of IBD in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Methods This is a multicentre cohort study in which 8 Latin American and Caribbean countries were included: Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela during the period from August 2017 to October 2019. Two study groups were conducted by geographic region due to their ethnicity, Group 1) Caribbean: Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, Group 2) Latin America: Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and Peru. Statistical analysis was performed with the statistical programme SPSS v.24. A value of p <0.05 was taken as significant. Results This study included a total of 4216 IBD patients from 8 countries. The CD was more frequent than UC in the following countries: Puerto Rico with 68.5%, Dominican Republic 56.3% and Peru with 53.1%, while in the rest of the countries the frequency of UC predominated, in Colombia by 79.2%, Venezuela in 78.4%, Cuba in 69.9% and Mexico in 75.8%. The Caribbean countries had a significantly higher frequency in the fistulising phenotype in CD with 65.1% (p = 0.0001), steroid dependence in 11.51% (pp = 0.002), steroid resistance in 28.5% (pp = 0.0001), thiopurine intolerance in 1.40% (p = 0.0002), extraintestinal manifestations in 55.91% (p = 0.0001), IBD surgeries in 32.10% (p = 0.0001) and family history of IBD reported a frequency of 15.60% (p = 0.0001). For Latin America, the frequency of pancolitis was more frequent in 48.21% (p = 0001) in patients with UC. The factors associated with the use of biological therapy were: fistulising phenotype in CD, steroid resistance, thiopurine intolerance, presence of extraintestinal manifestations and IBD-related surgeries. There is an increased frequency in the diagnosis of IBD in the last two decades (2000–2019), being 7.5 times for UC and 12.5 times for CD as show in Figure 1. Conclusion This is the first large and multicentre study in Latin America and the Caribbean which showed significant increase in the diagnosis of IBD in the last two decades as well as the differences in clinical and epidemiological characteristics between both regions.

Problems of Land Tenure Reform in Latin America

1964 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Picó
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Reform Program ◽  
The Government ◽  
Luis Munoz Marin

My interest in land reform started very early. In fact, my first executive appointment in the Government of Puerto Rico was in 1941, even before I left academic life, when I became a member of the first Board of Directors of the Land Authority of Puerto Rico, thus participating from the start in the land reform program of Puerto Rico. Back in 1940 when the present Government of Puerto Rico headed by Luis Muñoz Marín, our present Governor but at that time President of the Senate, took over the reins of government one of the first bills approved by our legislature was for a land tenure reform program in Puerto Rico.

Anti-Imperialism and the Good Neighbour Policy: Ernest Gruening and Puerto Rican Affairs, 1934–1939

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT DAVID JOHNSON
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
The United States ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Local Support ◽  
Initial Support ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt

During his five years as chief US policy-maker towards Puerto Rico, Ernest Gruening strove to create a model – based on the anti-imperialist principles he had outlined in the 1920s – for a reformist policy which the United States could pursue towards the rest of Latin America. The initial support of Franklin Roosevelt allowed Gruening to position his Puerto Rican programme as one of the three ideological alternatives present in the early stages of the Good Neighbour Policy. The collapse of Gruening's scheme provided US policymakers with an early illustration of the difficulty of imposing reform with insufficient local support.

scholarly journals Reescrituras de la tragedia en el teatro latinoamericano contemporáneo. El caso Antígona

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Lía Sabrina Noguera
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Luis Rafael Sanchez ◽  
Griselda Gambaro ◽  
Leopoldo Marechal

In the present article we propose to perform an analysis of various rewrites that from Latin America have been made from the text Antigone by Sophocles, taking as corpus of analysis: Antigone Velez (1951-Argentina) by Leopoldo Marechal, Furious Antigone  (1986-Argentina) by Griselda Gambaro, The passion according to Antígona Pérez (1968-Puerto Rico) by Luis Rafael Sánchez, Antigone (1999- Peru) by José Watanabe, Antigonon. An epic contingent (2013-Cuba) by Rogelio Orizondo and Antigones. Court of women (2014-Colombia) by Carlos Satizabal. We start from the assumption that these dramas do this rewriting as a way of rethinking the national past and present and, especially, as a way of not forgetting the often traumatic experiences that these territories have experienced.

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