Value-based healthcare in Latin America: a survey of 70 healthcare provider organisations from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico by Pedro Ramos, Marcia Makdisse, Daniel Malheiro, Marcelo Katz, Luisa Novoa, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Jose Henrique Germann Ferreira, Sidney Klajner

“…A previous national-level survey has shown that Latin American countries were in the early stages of alignment with VBHC. …”
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Música e internacionalismo no Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano by Camila Arêas, Glauber Lacerda, Ivette Céspedes

“…This study examines the strategies used to musicalise images within the Cuban cultural project to build an internationalist and mainly Latin American identity for the Cuban audience.…”
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Public policy training in Latin America: Current status and challenges for political science by Nicolás Bentancur, Germán Bidegain, Rodrigo Martínez

“…The present article analyzes training in public policy at the undergraduate level in Political Science programs at 11 Latin American countries. This research addresses the profile of instructors, the most often quoted authors and texts and the importance granted to knowledge produced both inside and outside the region. …”
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Growth models and comparative political economy in Latin America by Nikolas Passos, Guilherme Spinato Morlin

“…Finally, the paper opens a research agenda for the political economy of stagnation in Latin American economies.…”
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Transnational organized crime in Latin America: Current trends and prospects for military crime-fighting operations by A. N. Pyatakov

“…On the one hand, this trend towards the ‘policialization’ of armed forces shows that the authorities of Latin American states recognize the threat posed by cross-border criminal groups. …”
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Mato Grosso do Sul na rota: uma análise em imagens by Ana Paula Camilo Pereira, Rafael Oliveira Fonseca, Mateus Boldrine Abrita, Daniel Amorim Souza Centuriao, Angelo Rondina Neto, angelorondina@uel.br, Rafaella Stradiotto Vignandi, Guilherme Espindola Junior

“…This study analyzes the spatial segment of the Latin American Integration Network (RILA) route that crosses the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in order to identify possible changes in territorial dynamics caused by the implementation of this road corridor, which has gradually reconfigured the territorial planning of the state, especially with regard to the logic of enabling circulation infrastructure, which sometimes conditions the speed of fluidity, sometimes shows the transformations embedded in this space.…”
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El Congreso de Lima de 1847 y los exiliados unitarios argentinos en la política exterior boliviana by Pol Colàs

“…Foreign relations were fundamental to nineteenth-century Latin American state-building. They are consequently central to our understanding of these nation’s diverse evolution. …”
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Las editoriales independientes en el punto de mira literario: balance y perspectivas teóricas by Ana Gallego Cuiñas

“…This paper aims to define the material and cultural practices of the independent Latin American publishers of the 21st century, a phenomenon that has recently captured the Academy’s attention, from the categories of literary theory and criticism, in dialogue with the sociology of culture. …”
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Bolivie, de l'autonomie à l'éclatement ? by Sophie Blanchard

“…The poor Bolivian highlands are Evo Morales's electoral basis - the president, leader of the new Latin-American political leftwing, is an eager defender of the rights of indigenous people -, whereas the wealthier and whiter lowlands are claiming for more autonomy.…”
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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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Les frontières latino-américaines, trajectoires historiques et construits politiques en mutation by Lucile Médina, Emmanuelle Perez-Tisserant

“…At once geopolitical fault lines, historical scars and economic and cultural interfaces, Latin American borders share the fact of having gone through the same major historical phases since colonization –first, the emergence of nascent networks, then the formation of independent states. …”
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Varying circumstances surrounding opioid toxicity deaths across ethno-racial groups in Ontario, Canada: a population-based descriptive cross-sectional study by Tara Gomes, Mina Tadrous, Sophie A Kitchen, Frank Crichlow, Tonya J Campbell, Cynthia Damba, Colin H Johnson, Ashley Smoke

“…Decedents were categorised as Asian, black, Latin American or white. We summarised decedents’ sociodemographic characteristics, circumstances surrounding death and patterns of healthcare utilisation preceding death by ethno-racial group, and used standardised differences (SDs) to draw comparisons.Results Overall, 6687 Ontarians died of opioid toxicity, of whom 275 were Asian (4.1%), 238 were black (3.6%), 53 were Latin American (0.8%), 5222 were white (78.1%) and 899 (13.4%) had an unknown ethno-racial identity. …”
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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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L'Amérique Latine sous le regard des frères Grandidier, explorateurs scientifiques polyvalents (1857-1859) by Jehanne-Emmanuelle Monnier

“…The Grandidier's travel narrative also offers a first-hand account of the political and social situation in Latin American countries following independence, as well as on the health conditions of the trip.…”
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Myth as Urban Collective Memory: A Reading of José María Arguedas’s Representation of Cuzco in "Los Ríos Profundos" by Maxwell Woods

“… This article explores the socio-political function of mythical representations of urban space in Latin American literature. Based on an analysis of the first chapter of José María Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos (1958), I argue that myth is a narrative technology of collective memory that binds together a regional community through the practice of reproducing shared narratives of the urban meaning of a uniting city. …”
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A escrita anarquitextual nos romances de viagem latino-americanos by Humbert Fois-Braga, Luiz Guilherme Castro

“…This paper aims to analyze how Latin-American travel novels deconstruct the ideology of European stories that legitimize a certain speech about peripheral countries. …”
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La narcoculture : vers un nouvel exotisme mexicain by Sébastien Rutés

“…In the past, Latin-American intellectuals have complained about the representation of continental reality because it was reduced to stereotypes of magical realism. …”
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Niñas del exilio. Una aproximación a las narrativas del pasado reciente by María Isabel Burgos Fonseca

“…A small aspect of Latin-American political exile will be illuminated by its protagonists. …”
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Le latino-américanisme français en perspective by Mona Huerta

“…If art and culture have been the cornerstone of these relationships since the late nineteenth century, the region was for the French researchers a fruitful laboratory that inspired the construction of Latin American Studies in France. Back on a story to feed the reflection on the changing Area Studies, in times of globalization.…”
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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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