Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 1988"

TL;DR: In the realm of public ideology, the Mexican Revolution was preceded and accompanied by an upsurge in nationalism as discussed by the authors, and it fell to Manuel Gamio to apply the principles of Boasian anthropology to further the same cause, albeit, in this case, by insisting on the enduring contribution of Indian civilisation to Mexico's development.

TL;DR: According to figures offered by the CDESTAC (Centro de Documentacion y Estudios Sindicales y del Trabajo, A.C.) the real minimum wage or the purchasing power of the minimum wage has decreased by 34 per cent between 1976 and 1985 (CDESTAC 1986: 36).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine discussion of contemporary developments with a retrospective historical view in order to offer a critical examination of some of the theoretical and political tendencies which are emerging from the 'New Social Movements' literature, which are generally argued that their Latin American manifesta? tions, like their North American and European manifestations, are some? thing 'new' (Slater (ed., 1985).

TL;DR: In the early 1970s, Cuba and the Soviet Union agreed to a formula for establishing the price of sugar in bilateral trade which essentially severed any relationship between this price and the world market price as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Mexican revolution began in 1910 with high hopes and a multitude of spokesmen clamoring for a better life for ordinary Mexicans, including women, the landless, the poor, and country folk as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the role of public participation in urban planning in Mexico City, using data gathered from several settlements located within the Tlalpan delegation (one of the administrative units) in the south of Mexico City.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the issues of identity, regional diversity and the limited impact of land reform in Chiapas as contributing to the inoperability of programmes of development, which are generally poorly planned and regionally and socially unbalanced, maintaining the anachronistic socio-economic structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a long chapter on Chile from 1958 to the present day, for the final volume of the Cambridge History of Latin America (CHLA), which is organized around three major questions: the role of parties, how parties were organized, how decisions were taken inside the parties, or what the balance of power was between the various sectors of the parties.