Modern Art, National Culture, and Hispanophilia in Revista de Avance by Iliana Cepero

“…Latin American Research Review…”
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Desenvolvimento econômico e satisfação com a democracia: uma análise da América Latina by Roberta Carnelos Resende, Sara de Sousa Fernandes Epitácio

“…The main goal of this work is to find out in which way the satisfaction with democracy can be associated with the level of economic development of the Latin American countries (1997-2009). As specific goals, we seek to analyze how Latin Americans assess the demo- cratic regime of their countries, whether there are considerable differences in evaluation at different times, whether the variations of expressions of satisfaction with democracy by individuals are correlated to economic variables, a nd, finally, whether it is possible to assure that a particular socioeconomic context influences the level of satisfaction with democracy. …”
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Biomedical research and vulnerability: a study on responsibility of health professionals in research involving human beings by Angelita Maria Maders

“…The conclusion extracted from the present research is that health professionals must have their actions guided and limited by the Ethics Codes related to their professional areas but also that there must be a legal regulation that takes into account the diversity and vulnerability of Latin Americans in order to make possible holding referred professionals liable and thus protecting the individuals involved.…”
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Integrating comprehensive surgical, intensive, and emergency care systems into the Pan American Health Organization’s health agenda by Maria Jose Garcia Fuentes, Ayla Gerk, Leticia Campos, Alejandro Torres, Taylor Wurdeman, Nikathan Kumar, Ruth Jimbo-Sotomayor, Juan Carlos Salamea, Luiz Fernando dos Reis Falcão, Guido Parquet, John G. Meara, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Alfredo Borrero Vega

“…With 365 million Latin Americans lacking access to essential surgical services, the need for a regional action plan is urgent. …”
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Religião e lutas identitárias por cidadania e justiça: Brasil e Argentina by Joanildo A. Burity

“…One of the recent developments in the Latin American context is surely the growing public impact of identity claims and disputes, which are connected to demands for citizenship rights and justice or for political representation. …”
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Congresos criminológicos internacionales y su impacto en los códigos penales de América Latina (1870–1945) by Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta

“…It focuses on the particular role that these congresses played as tools for the universalization of norms and in the production of modes of subjectivity based on a racist social classification, which was widely accepted by Latin American elites.Thus, the presence of the Latin American delegations in these congresses gave rise to theoretical frameworks for social control and transnational criminal law regimes. …”
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Após a nacionalidade: história do romance e produção romanesca no Brasil e na América Latina by Pedro Dolabela Chagas

“…We comment the theses of Roberto Echevarría about the Latin-American novel, which place on a wider geographical frame the propositions by Flora Süssekind about the Brazilian novel. …”
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Sobre o modelo decolonial: a importância do outro e a urgência de seu olhar by João Alberto Mendonça Silva, Josemar de Campos Maciel, Dolores Pereira Ribeiro Coutinho

“…This article is an exhibition about changing models of thought intended for Decolonial thinkers, questioning and provoking the massificator system that Latin American societies have lived since the Colonial process. …”
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Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere by Philip Schlesinger

“…It then discusses the author’s meeting with Ortiz in Scotland during a European-Latin American ‘encounter’ set up to discuss cultural identity and communication. …”
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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves speci fi c changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. …”
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A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

“…The paratopic situation of the Latin American writer and the legitimating process are the starting point of this article, concentrated on the analysis of the novel Onze: uma história , by Bernardo Carvalho. …”
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Professional Baseball Player Type and Geographic Region of Origin Impacts Shoulder External and Internal Rotation Strength by Lori A. Michener, Adam J. Barrack, Bernard Y. Liebeskind, Ryan J. Zerega, Jonathan C. Sum, Ryan L. Crotin, Hillary A. Plummer

“… # Methods Minor league professional baseball players from North America and Latin America (n=242; age=22.4±2.3 years; n=135 pitchers and n=107 position players; n=162 North American and n=80 Latin American players) volunteered at spring training. …”
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International or National Orientation: A Comparative Study of Mexican Franchisors by Cesario Armando Flores Villanueva, María del Carmen Gaytán

“…Despite the importance of the franchise system in Latin American countries, few academic studies address the issue of internationalization. …”
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Moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between concentration of control and market value: empirical evidence in Latin America by Dante Baiardo C. Cavalcante Viana Junior, Daniel Ferreira Caixe, Vera Maria Rodrigues Ponte

“…For this purpose, we built an unbalanced panel dataset composed of 341 Latin American companies from six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. …”
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Os estudos culturais na encruzilhada dos feminismos materiais e descoloniais by Claudia de Lima Costa

“…I see echoes of what material feminists advocate vis - à - vis the thorny issue of the materiality of the world in the cosmopolitical proposals advanced by Latin American decolonial feminisms. I claim that the articulation of these two projects (one derived from debates in the North and the other from the South) can serve as an inspiration to rethink – and decolonize – the practices of cultural studies in Latin America.…”
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Cidade de Deus: entre o testemunho e a ficção by Sandro R. Barros

“…In this sense, this study also analyses the reception of Lin's text under what has been epistemologically termed in Latin American subaltern studies as testimonio. The analysis of Lins's novel under the testimonial rubric allows for a meditation on questions related to any fictional text whose content stands too close to factually recognizable events, which takes the literary work and its possible classifications to an ontological cri- sis whose repercussions problematize literature as a vehicle of social denuncia- tion, and the author as the mediator of such a process.…”
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Interview with Piet J. Naudé by Martin Laubscher

“…His thesis explored the relation between theory and practice in Latin-American Liberation Theologies and the work of Johann Baptist Metz. …”
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Political Risk in Latin America by David Soto Bello

“…In addition, we indicate the adverse effects that specific economic policies and impeachment processes have on Latin American stock markets. In conclusion, this research proposed to advance the political science literature and finance interception, and it does it by motivating the discussions. …”
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Estado e proteção social no Cone Sul da América Latina: um panorama do século XXI by Nayara Cristina Bueno, Lislei Teresinha Preuss

“…It presents characteristics of the Latin American society and the movement of the State in the 21st century, between the expansion and retraction in social investments. …”
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