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This paper is the product of doctoral research and aims to introduce the discussion and analysis of Ubuntu and traditional African philosophy as a contribution to thinking about the fragmentation of democracy in Latin America, giving way to the role that African movements and organizations have in assuming a political and ethical struggle to build a relational democracy as a necessary proposal to the crisis of liberal democracy. The methodology consists of a bibliographic review of literature and intellectuals from the social sciences and African thought to highlight a trend that is not only framed in the questioning of the democratic model in force in Latin America, but also provides some clues for the construction of a community society project in the region, based on relational ontology. It concludes that, in the crisis of the Western political model, the struggles of Afro-descendant movements must transcend the logic of strengthening liberal democracy, to propose the ethical path of Ubuntu as a route to deconstruct the political and societal structures in place, promoting a message of humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of the transformation from savings banks into commercial banks. The Spanish savings banks during the 2012-2014 period have been used as a "quasi-experiment" or as an example for other countries in which there are savings banks nowadays. The aim is to show if there are efficiency differences between banks and former savings banks. Then, at least in the first years after their transformation, savings banks are still achieving very positive results in social activities, and, besides, they are improving their economic results. These findings are useful for both potential transformations of savings banks in other European countries with this type of financial entities, and for future research with Latin America, Asia or Africa financial data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to bring notes and analyzes of sources and historiography that contribute to the understanding of Baptist missionary expansion to Central Brazil from the year 1925. The article was built from the perspective of the Cultural History of Religions. It was concluded that the Baptists took advantage of the context of Protestant expansion throughout Latin America and made use of the discourse of the supposed need that the interior habitants had to receive the Christian message in order to justify the realization of their projects. It is believed that the issues raised here may contribute to the debates about the Protestant theme in Brazil, especially in the field of the Cultural History of Religions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the reading of The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir, by the Colombian artist Emma Reyes, it is possible to know the author's life story. She stands out in this article as a relevant figure in the context of literature written by women in Latin America. Thus, this paper aims to discuss the possible reading keys presented in Emma's set of letters, based on the theoretical background of authors such as Aleida Assmann (2011) and Paul Ricoeur (2007). Before starting the analysis and considering its aspects, some information about the emergence of this work will be presented, as well as the biographical data of the author, according to Diego Garzón's (2016) journalistic work, in order to establish more reflections from this study proposal. Finally, the reading keys presented are cultural memory and identity, spaces and voices that appear in the narrative through memoirs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theoretical horizon of the Political Analysis of Discourse (APD) affirms the political ontology of all identity, from a particular conception of language, of social discourses and of the subject. By postulating the ultimate impossibility of the society as a meaningful totality fully and stably articulated, this transdisciplinary perspective investigates the conflict inherent in the historicity and contingency of any identity process, analyzing the struggles for hegemony around differences and antagonisms in the social space. The APD incorporates conceptual tools from different fields of knowledge (such as post-structuralist linguistics, post-Marxist political theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophical thinking of deconstruction). In this paper we present a review and assessment of its main contributions to social analysis in Latin America, as it constitutes a particular epistemological elaboration to address the political-discursive dimension of disputes over hegemony and social meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to propose an analysis that contributes to the apprehension of the main elements that determinates the current Brazilian conjuncture, from the main economic dynamics that evidences the barbarism panel that follows the attempt of restarting the capital appreciation cycle to the most contemporaneous elements, which ties this broader context with particular events and processes that can distinguish the current Brazilian conjuncture. Moreover, the additional objective of this article is to think about the resistance processes, having as a temporal reference the year 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to examine and reflect on the political and cultural meaning of the speeches delivered by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, the Brazilian Communist Party's Secretary of Education and Propaganda Pedro Pomar and the communist writer Jorge Amado in the first meeting between the Communist Party of Brazil and the writers. That event was not further explored when studying the political and cultural actions of the Brazilian Communist Party. It took place in São Paulo, in July 1945, when Brazilians were mobilizing for the country's political democratization, the legalization of the Communist Party and the Party's Secretary-General, since 1943, Luís Carlos Prestes' amnesty. The speeches given by Neruda, Pomar and Amado were gathered in a book called "O Partido Comunista e a Liberdade de Criação" published by the publishing company Horizonte in 1946. This paper analyses this document, that may be considered the only and most important record of the meeting and it aims to associate it with the party's effort to make the experience of the cultural frontism that occurred clandestinely into a proposal to a legal cultural movement. Therefore, the effort to reaffirm conceptions and to value literary projects that were developed in the 1930's and the meaning of Jorge Amado's and Pablo Neruda's militancy in Latin America must be highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I analyse the methodological approaches linked to action-research e some possible influences of the Latin American Popular Education and Participatory Action-Research in the Brazilian Ethnomusicology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents reflections on the network mode of production of Television America Latina (TAL) and its role in strengthening public and cultural televisions of this Region, in the diffusion of this culture and the adoption of an alternative or resistant stance faced with a historical situation of global trade dominance on regional television production. Methodologically we start from the perspective of the model of culture circuit to propose the circuit of TAL and, from there, outline the steps necessary for the understanding of the cultural representation process in this Network television. Specifically we focus the forms of TV co-production and its mediations as a network, captured through fieldwork in TAL's Annual Meeting 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infectious diseases are among the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Latin America. Despite the availability of safe, effective and relatively accessible vaccines, adult vaccination remains at a low level worldwide and especially in Latin America resulting in millions of adults every year suffering illness, hospitalization and even death from vaccine-preventable diseases. In response to this problem, the Americas Health Foundation facilitated the development of this document: Recommendations to Improve Adult Vaccination Coverage in Latin America. The 24 endorsing organizations are deeply committed to increasing adult vaccination coverage in the Region and believe that it should be considered an individual, community and governmental responsibility and that increasing vaccination coverage in adults is an essential investment in every country's future. The criteria for including a recommendation to improve adult vaccination coverage in Latin America are that it be timely, reasonable, effective, relevant and clear. While the challenges to adult vaccination coverage are multi-factorial, they can be overcome by a commitment from government, payers, health care professionals and others. Most important, we believe that every country should have a nationwide schedule for adult immunization. We believe that as a result of implementing the recommendations in this paper, all adults will be better informed about the severity of vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccine safety and efficacy, current recommendations, the fact that vaccines are as essential for adults as they are for children, and that vaccination is a life-long need. As a result, we are confident that vaccination coverage throughout Latin America will improve greatly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]