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This research paper puts forward a set of academic proposals for the Colombian health care system's adequate incorporation of the right to try experimental treatments conceived in the United States. It explains the differences between the Colombian and the American health models regarding access to non-conventional drugs. A comparative qualitative method is used, which, by contrasting, would provide solutions to incorporate the right appropriately into the national health model. The research concludes that, for the right to be adequately adopted, it is crucial to take out voluntary policies that ensure experimental treatments, introduce presumption of fact on patients' economic capacity to avoid shifting the burden of proof, eliminate medical committees for the approval of these drugs--notwithstanding the fact that physicians may consult their risks and benefits with other medical bodies--, and incentivize credits and tax exemptions for insurers and manufacturers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1910 and 1915 the American Museum of Natural History carried out several expeditions in Colombian territory. Taking into account recent studies on U.S. cultural imperialism and science and imperialism, this paper analyzes the collections of birds from these expeditions to explore the role of North American imperialism in science, as well as the role of North American science in the expansion of the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. The paper illustrates how theories of race and migration shaped the way in which North American naturalists appropriated and comprehended Colombian nature. Likewise, the paper explores the perspective of Colombian naturalists towards the expeditions, concluding that, far from being mere puppets of North American interests, Colombians used the relationship with U.S. naturalists to pursue their own agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses current dynamics of the relationship between Colombia and the United States. The Free Trade Agreement negotiations, the atoned conflict in Colombia and the Plan Colombia have been central issues in bilateral relations. Recent political changes in the region promise to affect not only Colombia's bilateral relations with its neighbors, but have an effect on US.-Colombian relations. The paper evaluates the particularities of president Uribe's Democratic Security policy, and the state of U.S.-Colombia relations during the Uribe administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses current dynamics of the relationship between Colombia and the United States. The Free Trade Agreement negotiations, the armed conflict in Colombia and the Plan Colombia have been central issues in bilateral relations. Recent political changes in the region promise to affect not only Colombia's bilateral relations with its neighbors, but have an effect on US. - Colombian relations. The paper evaluates the particularities of president Uribe's Democratic Security policy, and the state of U.S. - Colombia relations during the Uribe administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo es el resultado de una investigación cuyo principal objetivo fue analizar el acceso a la justicia en el mecanismo de solución de controversia previsto en el Tratado de Libre Comercio suscrito entre Colombia y Estados Unidos (TLC COL-USA) y su impacto en los sectores económicos colombianos. De esta forma, se analizó la temática a partir de la conceptualización teórica del acceso a la justicia construida a partir de la doctrina y de la jurisprudencia tanto colombiana como estadounidense, así como del análisis del Sistema de Solución de Controversias consagrado en el TLC y su relación con un agente del sector productivo colombiano especifico como son los microempresarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To compare the educational philosophy, structure and contents of psychoanalytic training institutions, members of the I.P.A., which correspondence to a five geographic areas so their similarities and differences could be establish. Development: This comparison was able to be established from the information provided to the author, by those responsible for analytic training in each one of the institutes studied: Britain, France, USA, Uruguay, and Colombia. Conclusions: It was determinate that there are differences in the process of the psychoanalytical training. This differences are in previous requirements, duration of the training, structure, sequence, contends, minimum number of sessions admitted to performance a psychoanalytical cure, analyzed one's self and to analyze; as well as the function or status to be a didactic analyst. However, there is a basic common ground: The Eitingon triangle (personal analysis for the training, a supervised clinical paper and theories and clinical seminars). It concludes that this common denominator that prevails on every institute mentioned, permits the education of an autonomous analyst and one`s own construction of psychoanalytical identity, in spite of theories, cultural and geographic differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to examine the implications that the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTAA) between the United States and Colombia would have particularly in the situation of Colombian women. The recent contributions that gender studies have provided to the social sciences and more specifically to economics, allow elaborating new ways of understanding issues concerning the national welfare and sovereignty from a usually marginalized perspective. The fact that there are not many studies that relate the gender factor with free trade, makes this paper a catalyst of the debate in this issue, which attempts to contribute in the analysis of the social impacts, standing specifically from a gender perspective, the implementation of the trade agreement would have. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the effect of political violence on the production of coca in the Central Andes? Does U.S. military aid reduce the amount of drugs that originate from this region? What other factors help explain the production of coca? Are the effects of U.S. military aid the same across the Andean nations? This paper tests the effects of political violence and U.S. military aid in the drug producing nations of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. Our results are consistent with existing literature that emphasizes the obstacles that governments face as they attempt to suppress markets for prohibited goods. Our comparative analysis sheds new light on the limitations of the current U.S. policy, particularly in Colombia, where political violence has strengthened the global drug trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This second paper from Mauricio Avella describes the complete cycle of capital exports originating in the United States in the 1920's: the conversion of United States into a creditor nation; the role of New York as the dominant financial center; and the distribution of United States investments, particularly in South America. Moreover, it examines the availability of these exports to Colombia, and the consequences from collapsing of external credit granted by the United States. Finally, it reviews the balance of the main international creditors when the export cycle of American capital closed in the 1920's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water Quality Index of the National Science Foundation has been deduced for the special conditions of the USA's rivers, however, it has been used for many countries of the world Weigths for variables in the Water Quality Index, was proposed in consideration of characteristics of contaminant charge, asociate with particular production process. This considerations let us to think about index validity in our especific topic conditions. In this paper we explore about this question, based in measures maked in the Cali and Meléndez rivers, in Cali -- Colombia [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]