La gobernanza regional compleja del comercio electrónico latinoamericano: una perspectiva comparada de la Alianza del Pacífico, la Comunidad Andina y el Mercosur by Julissa Castro-Silva

“…Originality: This work connects studies on complex regional governance with a relatively underexplored agenda in Latin American academic literature: e-commerce.…”
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The performance of agriculture in latin america: analysing efficiency and efficacy in the region by Nelson Guilherme Machado Pinto, Vanessa Piovesan Rossato, Daniel Arruda Coronel, Aline Beatriz Schuh

“… The objective of this study was to analyze the performance of agricultural activities in Latin American countries based on efficiency and efficacy models using data from the decade beginning in the year 2000. …”
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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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Latinoamérica y la CPI: afrontar la impunidad en Colombia by Bárbara Direito

“…But the real test of commitment will come when there is an investigation of (and even judicial proceedings against) Latin American nationals, or of and against a situation occurring in a Latin American country. …”
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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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THE WEST AND NON-WEST: A NEW APPROACH TO THE OLD DICHOTOMY by D. A. Kuznetsov

“…Moscow: Institute of Latin American Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015. 172 p.…”
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Soulèvement populaire au pays de Chávez by Julien Rebotier

“…Its historical, socio-political and economical contexts allow making connexions with current Latin-American challenges. Stemming from a socio-historical and geographical perspective, a contextual and prospective analysis of such violence brings a better understanding of the events instead of merely judging a government. …”
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Venezuela: Political Confrontation and the World Community by Z. W. Iwanowski, D. M. Rozental

“…The miscalculations of the incumbent president were used in election campaigns in other Latin American countries and became one of the reasons for the defeat of left candidates, the subsequent ‘right drift’ leading to the isolation of the republic. …”
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Theotônio dos Santos (1936-2018) y la reconstrucción de la economía política del desarrollo by DOMÍNGUEZ-MARTÍN, Rafael

“…This essay analyzes economic thought trajectory of the great Latin American intellectual Theotônio dos Santos in his vital context and the history of ideas, as well as his main contributions to the critical studies of development.…”
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Considering middle-classes in Latin America: An update of old debates by Isabel Díaz

“…The approaches to the middle classes that have been dominant in Latin American thought and that structure current academic debate form the analytical nucleus of this article. …”
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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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Whiteness in Latin America: measurement and meaning in national censuses (1850-1950) by Mara Loveman

“…Fundamental similarities in ideas about whiteness found in Latin American censuses appear even more starkly when the scope of analysis expands to include the censuses of the United States.…”
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Is There a Diversity of Dependent Capitalisms in Latin America? by Ilán Bizberg

“…The Latin American continent has been considered as a paradigm of dependent economies since the studies of the Dependency Theory in the sixties and seventies. …”
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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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Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in the United States of America: A Short Review and Some Comments by Stephen A. Klotz

“…This report discusses autochthonous cases of Chagas disease as well as disease in immigrants from Latin American countries. Suggestions for epidemiology research and medical care are discussed given the evolving epidemiology of the disease in the United States of America.…”
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El Buen Vivir como alternativa al desarrollo para América Latina by Cubillo-Guevara, A.P., Hidalgo-Capitán, A.L., García-Álvarez, S.

“…In this article we show the theoretical-regulatory basis of Good Living, understood as a transformation proposal of Latin American socioeconomic systems that aims to overcome the problems of bad development (alienation, inequality and unsustainability). …”
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Identity, Familia, and Belonging by Alicia Long, Denice Adkins

“…Many librarians of Latin American heritage are and have been members and/or leaders of the American Library Association (ALA). …”
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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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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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