Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 1999"

TL;DR: The relationship between neo-Pentecostalism and established culture is explored in this article, where it is shown that what appears at one level as a religious conflict is at another level a conflict over political power, over the rhetoric and imagery of power, and for controlling the popular imaginary.

TL;DR: The Brazilian Landless Farmworkers' Movement (MSTMST) as discussed by the authors occupies idle farmland and demands that it be expropriated under the terms of Brazil's agrarian reform law.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the Guatemalan peace process by focusing on different actors in civil society, and show that civil society can have an impact on transitions on multiple levels.

TL;DR: The authors examines how neoliberal policies implemented under Carlos Salinas Gortari (1988-1994) changed the nature of state-private sector relations in Mexico and how Mexico's entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) solidified a strategic alliance between the state and business.

TL;DR: The response of the Indian population to Protestant proselytism is neither passive nor impotent, and far from playing a destructive or reactionary role, Protestantism provides an unsuspected combination of identity markers and modernity, thus occupying a space left open by Catholicism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore constructions of masculinity and feminity in the speech and practice of residents of a low-income settlement in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and argue that it is necessary to locate multiple and contested gender identities in the overarching gender system.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that processes of professional affirmation in the context of the political conjuncture of the democratisation process contributed to a radical politicisation of segments of the emerging new middle classes.

TL;DR: In this paper, three waves of Protestant expansion are described in relation to missionary activity from the North, and the relationship between Protestantism and modernity both at the level of the larger society and at the local community are explored.

TL;DR: In the industrialised world and in advanced developing countries alike, the focus has shifted from a top-down, statist approach that sought to create industries to a decentralised, networked approach whose aim is to shape competitive advantages and to create "systemic competitiveness" as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Chamorro government (1990-1996) as discussed by the authors achieved stabilisation in Nicaragua by implementing stabilisation and structural adjustment policies as recommended by the IMF and the World Bank, but the priority of internal stabilisation implied that insufficient attention was paid to the external balance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain the slowness of economic reform in Mexico in political terms by pointing out that risk aversion seems to have been a characteristic of Mexican authoritarianism during 1982-1994.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the changing position of women in an indigenous community in Chiapas, Mexico and argue that women are gaining new agency and an increased pride in their ethnicity as they become members of the various sects that are taking root in the community.

TL;DR: Traditional family feuding and banditry as well as envy-inspired violence associated with capitalised irrigation have been intensified by the introduction of cannabis farming and organised crime in the Sertao of Northeast Brazil to the point that today the cannabis producing zone is one of the most violent places in the world.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the tensions between these pressures and the heritage of grassroots Peronist activism of the 1970s and the exigencies of contemporary neo-liberalism.

TL;DR: The role of institutions in economic performance in general, in Latin America as a whole, and in Venezuela in particular, is discussed in this paper, where the authors call attention to the highly significant "special case" of the oil sector where the state company, PdVSA, has been bureaucratically autonomous and relatively efficient.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine and compare how the repression of homosexuals and intellectuals is portrayed in two recent Cuban fictional narratives: the film, Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate) (Gutierrez Alea et al., 1993) and the detective novel, Mascaras (Masks) (Padura Fuentes Mascara, Tusquets, Barcelona, 1997).

TL;DR: The authors examines the efforts at judicial system and related reforms in El Salvador since the 1992 Peace Accords, and relates those reforms to popular perceptions, both of previous institutions and of the institutional reforms and new institutions that have been created as part of the peace-making process.

TL;DR: This paper explored the mechanisms of Mexican identity as they are constructed in the film Como agua para chocolate (1991) (Like Water for Chocolate) and applied the metaphor of boiling, derived from the film's title, to examine certain key concepts of cinematic "mexicanness" including the tropes of ‘revolution’, ‘border, race, and sex.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the posthumously published autobiography by Reinaldo Arenas and examine questions of genre, and specifically, autobiography as ars moriendi, where issues of internal and external exile are explored and a fluid alternative narrative is offered, in contrast to the rigid official narrative on AIDS.

TL;DR: The authors examines the writings of the Mexican literary journalists, Guadalupe Loaeza and Cristina Pacheco, and traces the political agendas of the writers through an analysis of their work in two collected volumes, Las ninas bien (Loaeza) and Sopita de fideo (Pacheco), arguing that each piece of writing contains an implicit or explicit attack on the Mexican ruling classes which mismanage the economy, squander its wealth and condemn the majority to economic misery.

TL;DR: In Brazil basismo has evolved from a libertarian discourse encouraged by the Church to a more institutionalised activity centred on local and international NGOs, with their increasingly managerial priorities.

TL;DR: The demerits and merits of Cuba's quarantine facilities for AIDS patients and seropositives have been widely debated by referring to the phenomenon of HIV self-injection in Cuba, as documented in the 1995 film Socialism or Death.