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This paper reviews the five General Conferences of the Latin American Episcopate held over the course of half a century, from the first one, held in Rio, until the most recent one in Aparecida. To facilitate the understanding of these Conferences, the theological context of each is recalled and some of the main points of their "Conclusions" are indicated. These Episcopal Assemblies prove that there is a specifically Latin American pastoral theology. Nonetheless, if before one had to prevent Eurocentric exaggerations, it is currently necessary that one avoid excessive Latin Americanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study the use of the “«hot news» Present Perfect" in the Spanish digital press as it appears in 39 articles of several online newspapers. Stress is laid on the combination of Simple Past and Present Perfect forms in these texts, their productivity and performance. The results are also compared with the same occurrences in the American Spanish online press. We conclude that the hot news Perfect is a special type of Present Perfect which functions as a stylistic resource in the Spanish digital press, but is non-existent in the American one. It does not correspond exactly to the “recent past" Present Perfect, with which it is often linked, for its main function is not to narrate recent facts but to focus on current events, leaving the events in the Past Simple form in the background. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]