La documentación de las lenguas patagónicas en el gabinete de Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo. El Vocabulario Guenaken by Marisa Malvestitti, María Emilia Orden

“…Towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the boom of the description of indigenous groups in Latin America, Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo (1835-1920) began his work of collection and linguistic description. …”
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An Overview of Global Papaya Production, Trade, and Consumption by Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen

“…Papaya has become an important agricultural export for developing countries, where export revenues of the fruit provide a livelihood for thousands of people, especially in Asia and Latin America. Papaya exports contribute to the growing supply of healthy food products on international markets. …”
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Os Relatórios do Desenvolvimento Humano (RDHs) e o padrão de intervenção pública na área social: os desafios postos à forma de organização do Estado no Brasil by Maria José de Rezende

“…These are general proposals that attempt to find common and viable solutions for several countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The reports show, over hundreds of pages, examples of social policies that have been implemented in various parts of the world. …”
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Who owns the Atoms? Nanotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights by Tomás Javier Carrozza, Susana Silvia Brieva

“…In Latin America, under the premise of enhancing economic competitiveness, there has been an exponential increase in investments in the development of nanotechnologies. …”
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Crimillegal Orders: Revisiting Organized Crime’s Political Power by Markus Schultze-Kraft

“…The article concludes by presenting some ideas about how the concept of crimillegality could be usefully adopted in the fields of peace building and the mitigation of non-armed conflict violence in Latin America and other parts of the contemporary world.…”
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Inequality in breast cancer: Global statistics from 2022 to 2050 by Ling Liao

“…These values contrast with those for Asia (0.085, 0.208), Europe (0.002, −0.014), Latin America and the Caribbean (0.17, 0.303), Northern America (−0.078, −0.188), and Oceania (0.166, −0.001). …”
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Ontological and intercultural anthropology of health among the shuar peoples of Zamora-Chinchipe by Christian Tym

“…This article shows the connections between Anglophone anthropology and the political philosophy of interculturality, to which little attention has been given in Latin America. Specifically, the contributions of the so-called ‘ontological turn’ are detailed in order to develop a theory of interculturality that addresses the differences between Indigenous peoples and Western societies. …”
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Género y gestión del riesgo de desastres: análisis comparado de la agenda internacional y latinoamericana y caribeña by Ana Gabriela Fernández-Saavedra, Rosario González-Arias, Sandra Dema-Moreno

“…The results show that there has been an accelerated process of incorporating the gender perspective in disaster risk management on a global scale, but not in Latin America and the Caribbean, a geographical context in which said evolution has not been homogeneous or constant. …”
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Technetium-99m-labeled peptides and their applications in radio imaging: advancements in Latin American research by Vaezeh Fathi Vavsari, Saeed Balalaie

“…This study highlighted the potential of technetium-99m-labeled peptides in advancing diagnostic capabilities in directed research in Latin America.…”
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21st century Latin American synthetic peptides for their application in antivenom production by Jésica A. Rodríguez, Gabriela R. Barredo-Vacchelli, Joaquin A. Eloy, Silvia A. Camperi

“…Envenomation caused by snakes, scorpions, and spiders represents a serious public health problem in Latin America. The antivenoms used for its treatment are produced by immunizing horses repeatedly with sublethal doses of animal venoms along with the adjuvant. …”
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Processes of juridification and defense of water in the southern Andean region of Ecuador by Carlos Quizhpe, Ivette Vallejo

“…In a context in which mining extractivism is expanding in Latin America, this article deals with the collective action agendas that local populations in the southern Andean region of Ecuador have followed to defend water against the Rio Blanco and Loma Larga projects in Quimsacocha, located in the Cuenca canton, Azuay province. …”
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The International Mycological Association: its history in brief with summaries of its International Mycological Congresses and diverse international relationships by E.G. Simmons

“…Regional associations currently are functional and hold their own regional congresses in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Latin America. The relationships of the IMA with other organizations recognized within the supra-national International Council of Scientific Unions are discussed.…”
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The relation between knowledge and concern: A global study of children and COVID-19 by Dina L. G. Borzekowski, Christopher R. Lane, Ankit Chandnani, Maya Götz

“…Among children from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian region, Asia, and North America, there was a positive relation between knowledge and concern. For those from Latin America, Oceania, Europe, and Southeast Asia, the relation was flat or negative. …”
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The diversity of local political agendas during COVID-19: A comparison of Mexican states by Enrique García-Tejeda, Juan Guillermo Vieira-Silva

“…COVID-19, as an event that disrupted economic activities around the world, affected government policy agendas. In Latin America, most of the responses were centralized by national governments; however, in Mexico, the 32 states developed their own economic policies in response to the pandemic. …”
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La necesaria construcción de un sistema público de pensiones para la sociedad mexicana* by Berenice Ramírez

“…A partir de los indicadores que utiliza la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) en su estudio y publicación Reversing Pension Privatizations: Rebuilding Public Pension Systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America (OIT, 2018a) se evalúan los sistemas de pensiones en México, para situar la discusión acerca de las siguientes preguntas: ¿La privatización ha sido un fracaso? …”
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De movimientos estructurados y estructuras móviles: una introducción a las perspectivas teóricas sobre los movimientos sociales by Willem Assies

“…Este escrito se publicó como capítulo en el libro Structures of Power, Movements of Resistance: An Introduction to the Theories of Urban Movements in Latin America, editado por Willem Assies, Gerrit Burgwal y Ton Salman, y publicado por CEDLA, Amsterdam, en 1990. …”
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An Overview of Global Papaya Production, Trade, and Consumption by Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen

“…Papaya has become an important agricultural export for developing countries, where export revenues of the fruit provide a livelihood for thousands of people, especially in Asia and Latin America. Papaya exports contribute to the growing supply of healthy food products on international markets. …”
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Chagas Disease, a Triatomine Bug-Transmitted Protozoan Infection by Bethany R. Eutsey, Cameron J. Jack, Shelley A. Whitehead, Eva A. Buckner

“…Disease transmitted by triatomine bugs generally occurs in rural areas of Mexico, Central America, and South America, but it is becoming more prevalent in non-endemic areas like the US as asymptomatic infected people move from rural to urban areas of Latin America and other regions.  In the US, approximately 300,000 people are currently infected with Chagas disease, 18,000 in Florida. …”
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Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis in a Post-COVID-19 Patient from Peru by Linda Ponce-Rosas, Jose Gonzales-Zamora, Nelson Diaz-Reyes, Oliver Alarco-Cadillo, Jorge Alave-Rosas

“…Mucormycosis has been reported increasingly in patients affected by COVID-19, especially in India where the first cases were described. In Latin America, there is limited information about this association, mainly coming from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. …”
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Financialized growth regime and capital accumulation in Brazil: geopolitical and institutional factors of the recent collapse and beyond by Miguel Bruno, Denise Gentil

“…It is based on the view that in order to understand the economic and political-institutional crisis, it is necessary to analyze the deepening financialization of Brazil, a periphery country, and the way in which rentier accumulation operates in the consolidation of US power in Latin America. The empirical evidence revealed the existence of endogenous factors for the crisis, factors that were already present in the Brazilian economy before the cyclical deterioration that started in 2014. …”
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