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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]

The paper explores the repercussions the coup of State in Chile in September 11th 1973, especially in domestic scenario. Research was held at the Arquivo Histórico do Ministério das Relações Exteriores - henceforth AHMRE. Specifically were consulted documents sent to Itamaraty from Santiago in the subsequent days to the emergence of a bureaucratic-authoritarian regime commanded by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Concludes that the coup were dramatic, long lasting and, in many cases, tragic for Chilean society and for others countries with traditional links and interests that country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a general analysis of the relations among United States and Latin America considering issues such as the questioning of the US centrality globally and in the hemisphere, Brazil's policies to the region and the impact of the growing relations with China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to increase the trading volume with Latin America, Japan had signed trade agreements with major local economies. However there is a lack of studies regarding the trading flow between those two regions. This paper has the main objective to estimate a cointegration relation between Japan and the four biggest economies in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, by the most traditional Johansen procedure and the Lütkepohl's which allows to deal with structural breaks. Regarding Johansen main results, only the Argentinian trading flows are cointegrated, however by Lütkepohl approach, the Brazilian and the Chilean imports equation are also cointegrated. As the estimated structural break is related to main monetary events in Argentina and Brazil this fact increases the significance of those results and the importance to deal with these break for international trade econometric modeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper poses hypotheses about the connection between local and global powers involved in the production of Latin American cinema during this decade. The recent historiography of these national cinemas is the guiding principle for the analysis of the political, cultural and economic trends of Latin American cinema. Contextualized by cultural and economic globalization, the production of national cinemas is explained as a battleground hybrid, in which symbolic and market issues are deeply interlinked. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents Latin American and Asian perspectives on the biofuels emerging industry. The Brazilian's possibilities of participation on this industry evolution and the involvement on the world trade for ethanol and biodiesel are discussed. Also, an investigation about who will be the main "strategic" partners of Brazil in this sector is made: the huge consumer markets of developed countries or the emerging and also hungry consumers of energy Asian economies? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the tax systems in Latin American federations (Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico) and the reform thereof. The article begins with a contextualization of the macroeconomic and social scenario, based on which it undertakes a diagnosis of taxation in the region with special attention to the changing tax burden. The recent reform agenda, focused on the federalism debate, is then presented. Finally, some perspectives and trends are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the context, causes, and consequences of mistrust of politicians in Latin America's current democratic era. In terms of context, we demonstrate that the very low trust in politicians in Latin America is merely one aspect of a syndrome of low trust across the board. In terms of causes of mistrust, we review three prominent features of democratic development over the past 15 years: poor economic performance affecting most new democracies in the region, corruption scandals, and the instrumental use of political institutions by incumbents. In terms of consequences, we examine the weak and uneven support for democracy across the region that appears to be causally related to mistrust of politicians. However, we avoid alarmism by arguing that these findings must be contextualized in light of the multidimensional low-trust syndrome of Latin America discussed above. Moreover, the reservoir of authoritarian attitudes is fragmentary and is rarely expressed coherently in political action. And finally, research on both advanced and emerging democracries has recently demonstrated that citizens are increasingly willing to separate their evaluations of incumbents (often negative) from their evaluation of democracy as a regume type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much of the recent analysis of presidentialism has been based on the assumption that executive-legislative confrontation creates simultaneous conditions for policy stability and regime breakdown. In the first section of the paper, I show that there is an inherent logical tension between these two predictions and that they rely on contradictory assumptions. In the second section, I develop a model of executive-legislative deadlock and argue that regime instability is more likely when partisan players are unilaterally impatient, when institutional design is biased in favor of one party, and when the number of parties is greater. In the third section, I test the predictions of the model using time-series cross-section data for 19 presidential countries in the Western Hemisphere between 1950 and 2000. Finally, I discuss how this approach illuminates some empirical puzzles like the historical survival of American presidentialism and the lower levels of regime instability created by executive-legislative deadlock in Latin America in the 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]