Biology of the Hicatee: A Critically Endangered River Turtle of Belize by Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Nathan Schwartz, Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“… The hicatee (Dermatemys mawii) is a Central American river turtle and one of the 25 most endangered turtle species in the world. …”
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Imaginando una nación de raza blanca en Costa Rica : 1821-1914 by Ronald Soto Quirós

“…At the same time, it is an intent to prove how the speech spread by the Costa Rican elites from the middle of the XIXth century also nourished the later interpretations of the foreigners and by the way a differential vision of this country in the Central American and even Latin-American context. Thus, the article tries to underline how the idea of a particular race with white tones was perpetuated being the result of a feedback process between both speeches, although the first documents of the XIXth century mention the existence of a half-caste country.…”
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CAFTA and U.S. Sugar by Andrew Schmitz, Troy G. Schmitz, James L. Seale, Jr.

“… The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is a trade agreement between the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. …”
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CAFTA and U.S. Sugar by Andrew Schmitz, Troy G. Schmitz, James L. Seale, Jr.

“… The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is a trade agreement between the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. …”
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Mexican Redrump Tarantula, Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer) (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Kenneth L. Hibbard

“…The first author examined the specimen (which was only half grown) and tentatively identified it as Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer), a species known to be commonly imported by the pet trade under assorted common names (Central American, Guatemalan, Honduran, or Mexican black velvet tarantulas). …”
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Mexican Redrump Tarantula, Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer) (Arachnida: Araneae: Theraphosidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Kenneth L. Hibbard

“…The first author examined the specimen (which was only half grown) and tentatively identified it as Brachypelma vagans (Ausserer), a species known to be commonly imported by the pet trade under assorted common names (Central American, Guatemalan, Honduran, or Mexican black velvet tarantulas). …”
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Las redes anticomunistas entre América latina y Asia (1954-1980) by Ernesto Bohoslavsky

“…This article studies the relationships established between South and Central American and Asian anti-Communist organizations and military dictatorships between 1954 and 1980. …”
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Postcolonialité et archive : le cas du roman de l’après-guerre et l’héritage du conflit armé au Guatemala by Mónica Quijano

“…It is from this discussion that I propose to analyze the literary response to these criticisms, through three novels written by Central American authors: Señores bajo lo árboles o Breve relación de la destrucción del indio de Roberto Morales, Insensatez de Horacio Castellanos Moya and El material humano de Rodrigo Rey Rosa. …”
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Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique by Víctor M. Toledo, Narciso Barrera-Bassols

“…This extensive territory where maize – which today constitutes the staple food in Mexican and Central American kitchens – finds its origin has become a symbolic point of reference, forming the core nucleus of a cosmic matrix. …”
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Foreign policy of A.M. López Obrador: Declarations and reality by V. L. Jeifets

“…., relations with the United States and Latin American countries, particularly in the context of the Venezuelan and Bolivian crises, as well as the Central American migration crisis) and to weigh it up against traditional patterns of Mexico’s foreign policy behavior, as well as to assess its overall feasibility. …”
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Late blight resistance of wild potato species under field conditions in the Northwest of Russia by N. M. Zoteyeva

“…The highest percentage of resistant accessions/species was identified among the species with areas of distribution in Mexico. A group of Central American species and large part of species with areas of distribution in South America expressed high level of interspecific polymorphism in foliar resistance to late blight.…”
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Tracking the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Nicaragua throughout the COVID-19 pandemic by Gerald Vásquez Alemán, Cristhiam Cerpas, Jose G. Juarez, Hanny Moreira, Sonia Arguello, Josefina Coloma, Eva Harris, Aubree Gordon, Shannon N. Bennett, Ángel Balmaseda

“…Comparative analysis with regional data underscored the low diversity of circulating lineages in Nicaragua and their delayed introduction compared to other countries in the Central American region. The study also linked specific viral mutations with hospitalization rates, emphasizing the clinical relevance of genomic surveillance. …”
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Biodiversity of Lecanosticta pine-needle blight pathogens suggests a Mesoamerican Centre of origin by Ariska van der Nest, Michael J. Wingfield, Paulo C. Ortiz, Irene Barnes

“…The pathogen is thought to have a Central American centre of origin. This was based on the morphological variation between isolates believed to represent L. acicola from native Pinus spp. …”
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The influence of depth on the global deep-sea plasmidome by Melany Calderón-Osorno, Dorian Rojas-Villalta, Franck Lejzerowicz, Jorge Cortés, Maria Arias-Andres, Keilor Rojas-Jimenez

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Prenatal inflammation and trauma symptoms in Latina mothers: The role of discrimination and growing up in an ethnic minoritized context by Rebeca Alvarado-Harris, Krista Perreira, Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombe, William Roger Mills‐Koonce, Hudson P. Santos, Jr.

“…Methods: Latina mothers, primarily of Mexican and Central American heritage (n = 150), completed the Everyday Discrimination Scale and the Traumatic Avoidance subscale of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms-II during pregnancy (24–32 weeks). …”
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The pattern of brittle deformation in Central America for an assessment of the seismo-tectonic framework by Mauro Agate, Francesco Caldareri, Luis Castillo, Amalia Garcia, Giuseppe Giunta, Luis Mixco, Jaime Requena, Carlos Rubi Tellez, Maynor Ruiz, Attilio Sulli, Abel Alexei Argueta-Platero, Heyddy Calderon, Julio Luna, Lidia Elizabeth Torres Bernhard

“…A seismo-tectonic map depicting the principal structural elements of the northern Central American region has been meticulously crafted to characterize the tectonic setting and the individual seismo-tectonic structures of this area. …”
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Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, association with ocean currents and seasonal effects of upwelling using real-time Argos locations by Chelsea E. Clyde-Brockway, Chelsea E. Clyde-Brockway, Samir Harshad Patel, Gabriela Blanco, Samuel J. Friederichk, Stephen Morreale, Frank V. Paladino, Frank V. Paladino

“…Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) are the most abundant marlin in Central American waters and are a species of socioeconomic and ecological importance with sport fishing generating millions of dollars (USD) and thousands of jobs each year. …”
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