El bosque en la ciudad: la invención del urbanismo moderno en la Ciudad de México (1870-1930) by Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera

“…The beautification and sanitation of cities of the early twentieth century in Latin America not only sought to liberate them from epidemics that plagued most of the European and Latin American capitals, but such interventions materialized the aura of progress, positioning the cities at international competitive standards as well as stressing the supremacy of knowledge. …”
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Origens da segregação racial no Brasil by Reinaldo José de  Oliveira, Regina Marques de Souza Oliveira

“…The approach follows the historic route of the years 1890 to 1930, marked by major changes in the Brazilian and Latin American scene: in 1888, the abolition of slavery, the following year the proclamation of the Republic and more precisely in the first decades of the twentieth century, the metamorphosis of industrial urban society, focusing in Salvador, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Sorry it took me so long: Latin America and rapid governments’ response to COVID-19 by Ian Rebouças Batista, Amanda Domingos, Rodrigo Lins

“…The region had more information on what to do to prevent the disease from spreading itself and social isolation was the most recommended measure to avoid contamination. Still, Latin American countries varied greatly on how fast they adopted strict social isolation measures. …”
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Temporary employment and its impact on wages in Latin America by Roxana MAURIZIO

“…This paper analyses fixed-term contracts in eight Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. …”
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Corporate storytelling and the idea of Latin America by Mariana I. Paludi, Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

“…In a continuation of critical perspectives that challenges the dominance of Anglo-Saxon onto-epistemologies in management and organization studies (MOS), we conducted an empirical study on a multinational airline company whose past successes depended on the North/South, Anglo/Latin American borderlands. We analyzed the grand narratives of Pan American Airways’ (PAA) corporate archival material to determine its dominant discourses about people from Latin America. …”
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La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX by Víctor Octavio Hernández Ávila

“…Mexico, like many other Latin American countries, considered it appropriate to analyze the eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. …”
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Outros olhares para outras Américas: cultura visual e fotografia na América Latina pós-tradicional by Sérgio Luiz Pereira da Silva

“…This paper presents a reflection on the critical role and the politics behind the photographic look at the context the visual culture in Latin American. We present the photographic look as an agent of social action in the context of visual culture. …”
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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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Violence fondatrice, mémoires de la dictature et politiques de la reconnaissance by Ricardo Salas Astrain

“…This article develops a philosophical thesis about violence foundational American political process, and therefore is not a direct pose about the military dictatorship, in other words, we propose a general hypothesis about the “founding violence” formed societies in Latin America, and determines much force facts that occurred in those hard 17 years experienced by the Chilean society and many more in other Latin American versions. This background can understand from a historical phenomenology resulting violence and cruelty of the Chilean dictatorship. …”
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A bajulação das massas by Franz Josef Brüseke, Héctor Ricardo Leis

“…Since the greek political philosophy passing through the theoretical work of Tocqueville, Le Bon, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset and Heidegger, to acquire a curious political actualization with Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and others, the fl attered mass presents itself in the Latin American populism.…”
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Dictaduras Militares y Tradiciones Obreras en Argentina y Brasil by Paula Andrea Lenguita, Marco Aurelio Santana

“…From the comparative approach adopted, we consider the contributions made ​​to the academic literature in this period hinge Latin American labor struggle and we analyze the continuities and ruptures that imposed repressive context to working class traditions: peronist, class, communist and cutista (Unified Workers´ Central Brazil). …”
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Inflammation and Hypertension: Are There Regional Differences? by Patricio López-Jaramillo, Carlos Velandia-Carrillo, Julie Álvarez-Camacho, Daniel Dylan Cohen, Tatiana Sánchez-Solano, Gabriela Castillo-López

“…The concentration of proinflammatory cytokines is higher in the Latin American population than that reported in developed countries, suggesting a higher susceptibility to develop systemic low-degree inflammation at a given level of abdominal obesity. …”
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Transcultural transformation in cinema by Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…This concept was the basis for a study of the organisational practices of director Carlos Saura, who in his last phase of his career focused on making films that offer samples of music, dance and unusual storytelling (based on the principle of “photography”) associated to the Iberian and Latin American space. This creates a special definition of the musical and artistic genres, combining traces of a documentary style influencing the authenticity of the representations depicted, with a strong aesthetic impulse emphasising the organisational and artistic nature of these representations. …”
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Rio de Janeiro y la Exposición del Centenario de la Independencia en 1922 by Niuxa Dias Drago, Marcia Furriel Ramos Gálvez

“…Following the path traced by other Latin American nations at the beginning of the 20th century, Brazil celebrated the centenary of its independence with a major international exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. …”
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L’exil chilien en France du coup d’état à l’acceptation de l’exil : entre violences et migrations by Nicolas Prognon

“…The violence of the Pronunciamento and the implementation of the tenets of the national security doctrine, supplemented by an ad hoc legislation, caused an enormous political, then economic migration, quite extraordinary for a Latin American country. In Europe, France as well as Sweden were part of the main host countries. …”
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Shifting the focus of world industrial development from European countries and North America to Asia by A. V. Ivanchenko

“…It makes it possible to change the term “developed countries” meaning and extend it not only to European and North American countries, but also to a number of Asian and Latin American countries due to the ever-growing importance of these countries’ industry on a global scale.…”
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La Asociación Sud-Americana de Paz Universal y Ángela Oliveira Cézar: pacifismo, activismo trasnacional y «diplomacia femenina» by Paula Bruno

“…Based on the itinerary of its founder and the dynamics of the association and resorting to different types of sources –documentation of the group (statutes, correspondence, books published), national and international periodical press, official documentation, personal correspondence– the article studies the possibilities and limits of Latin American women in undertaking actions motivated by American fraternity and international pacifism and the articulation between the local, regional and transnational repercussions of their initiatives. …”
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Employing Kirkpatrick’s framework to evaluate nurse training: an integrative review by Fernanda Maria de Miranda, Bruna Vasconcelos dos Santos, Vicki Leigh Kristman, Vivian Aline Mininel

“…Method integrative literature review in the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System and Web of Science databases. …”
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L’identité argentine ou la construction d’un mythe littéraire entre Europe et Amérique by Lionel Souquet

“…Paradoxically enough, this literary image is not so far removed from the socio-cultural reality as the identity of the Latin-American novelist is often defined by his or her engagement with reality through (philosophical, political, historical and sociological) description and analysis. …”
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La dimensión de los discursos curatoriales y su circulación en la Bienal más expandida del Sur Global by Eva Natalia Fernández

“…In this article the purpose is to develop the articulation between curatorial discourses and their circulation in Bienalsur: the most innovative contemporary art biennial in the last four years in thirty-two cities in the world at the same time.This biennial proposes the notion of network as a space for review of the power structures that have to do with the global cultural policies prevailing in the art world.Its operational modality pursues the idea of ​​simultaneity that we will understand as a production of synchronous speeches, with a circulation and a reception established from a situated statement -the south- aiming of repositioning Latin American Art.First, the notions of discourse and circulation will be conceptualized from the gaze of authors such as Michel Foucault, Eliseo Verón, Teun Van Dijk and Michel Espagne. …”
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