Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 2015"

TL;DR: The authors examines the active reconstruction of indigenous identities within the Plurinational State of Bolivia through the case study of a resource conflict that arose with the government's announcement of its intention to build a road through a national park and indigenous territory, the TIPNIS; Indigenous Territory and Isiboro Secure National Park.

TL;DR: This article conducted interviews with 85 migrant-smugglers who operate at the border between Mexico and the United States, and concluded that many smugglers have become part of organized crime groups but only after leaving the MCS business.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on Amazonia to explore how rural-urban mobility redefines patterns of resource use is presented in this article, where the focus is primarily on riverine areas of the Brazilian Amazon.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the Chilean data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) 2012, the results suggest that distributive beliefs are associated primarily with participation in protests, and that an individual's beliefs about economic distribution are an important determinant of participation both in elections and in protests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between rural-urban mobility and economic differentiation in Amazonian communities, through a multi-scaled methodological framework and showed that individual mobility patterns are embedded in a process of multilocalisation, articulating rural and urban areas at a collective level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use socio-economic, governance and land use data to understand the contemporary transformations of indigenous territories in relation to several factors, including urbanisation, population growth, economic development and conservation policies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the presence of bias in Chile's two main daily newspapers, El Mercurio and La Tercera, was examined in the first 100 days of rule of presidents Eduardo Frei (1994-2000), Ricardo Lagos (2000-2006), Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010) and Sebastian Pinera (2010-2014).

TL;DR: In this paper, the transformations undergone by indigenous agricultural systems in periurban areas of the Rio Negro (Amazonas, Brazil) were explored, and the recognition of the ecological and cultural relevance of indigenous practices depended on new kinds of market integration and partnerships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate and discuss whether BNDES fulfils the three typical functions expected of national development banks: financial sector development, business climate enhancement, and knowledge services.

TL;DR: The authors argue that dominant national discourses on identity in Panama have shifted in response to transnational alliances and pressures, and that a monolithic nationalism driven by the narrative of panamenismo has given way to an ethno-racial climate in which the politics of identity and representation are approached more pluralistically and arguably more equitably.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how changing urban-rural relationships pose new opportunities and challenges for resource management in the municipality of Barcelos, Middle Rio Negro, Brazilian Amazon.

TL;DR: In this article, relations between mining companies and local communities are explored, with a particular focus on the role of participation and firm-based commitments to local development, and the conclusions point to the limits of voluntary firm initiatives in strengthening local sustainable development.

TL;DR: The authors examines the restrictions on internet access in Cuba and asks to what extent the lack of access to the World Wide Web has helped to maintain (with some evident changes), the socialist status quo on the island, arguing that the Cuban government is negotiating a fine line between taking full economic advantage of what the internet can offer and hampering its use as a mechanism for the subversion of the Revolution in the face of continued US aggression.

TL;DR: The case study of Panama illuminates which quota provisions increase descriptive representation, shedding light on how quotas work in small states and how the lack of enforcement mechanisms fail to increase representation.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of advocates pursuing LGBTI rights cases through the courts is examined, drawing on McAdam and colleagues' (2001) concept of a broker to examine the lawyers' roles in linking previously unconnected sites within the judiciary and further afield.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a survey of 304 households in Jerez municipio (municipality), Zacatecas, Mexico, in 2009 and found that active households perceived their economic situation to have improved more, but both their social cohesion and their happiness to be less than those of non-active households.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the evolution of political campaign coverage through a content analysis of the topics highlighted in newspapers' agendas during three presidential elections in Chile, and found an expected increase in the space allocated to the politicians' private lives by 2009, but no change in the attention given to individual politicians' political traits (political competence).

TL;DR: This article analyzed how Mexican presidents have interpreted the concepts of drug trafficking and national security and how these particular connotations have redefined national sovereignty and the specific role of the armed forces in protecting this sovereignty.

TL;DR: Following the Civil War in the United States of America, colonies that were predominately ‘Yankee’ and Confederate sprang up in Brazil as mentioned in this paper, and these colonies were the result of in the first case, the actions of Imperial diplomacy and in the second case, spontaneous interest by Southerners due to the existence of slavery in Brazil.

TL;DR: This paper examined how Mexican immigrants in the United States use a system of flexible kinship and ritual practices to adapt to new circumstances of living and working in communities with new neighbours, new challenges and new threats.