This paper analyzes the position of the Chilean Catholic Church in the debate on national development and the Alliance for Progress that took place in the
country during 1961-1970. The Church participated in the public discussion through the magazine Mensaje, in which positions were opposed between economic (material) development and spiritual…[Read more]

This article outlines the formation of architectural theory in Portugal and Brazil during the nineteenth century, arguing that such theory was initially contained within the social circle and methodological scope of literary history. It makes this case by following the architectural discourses of writers, literary critics, and ethnographers. This…[Read more]

Brazilian architect. He was an influential eclectic architect highly active in Rio de Janeiro and a professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA). Soon after graduating from the ENBA, he established his firm in 1898. The son of Custódio José de Mello, a republican admiral and cabinet minister, Mello benefited from his family’s con…[Read more]

This chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]

En este libro se analiza la interpretación histórica que realiza el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) en dos de sus libros: Un proyecto alternativo de nación (2004) y La mafia que se adueñó de México y el 2012 (2010). Se consideraron sólo estos libros debido a que fueron escritos y publicados con la finalidad de difundir…[Read more]

This is a chapter about the Chilean experience toward Democracy (1983-1990).

El objetivo general de este trabajo es analizar la interpretación histórica que realiza el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) en dos de sus libros: Un proyecto alternativo de nación (2004) y La mafia que se adueñó de México y el 2012 (2010). Se consideraron sólo estos libros debido a que fueron escritos y publicados con la finali…[Read more]

The Brazilian Northeast has been a constant subject for journalists of one of the world’s leading media companies – The New York Times – between 1933 and 1945. This study investigates the multiple Northeast representations formulated in The New York Times’ pages when the Americans were spotlight is on the region. It delineates similarities and…[Read more]

This research examines Tad Szulc’s writings and performance (1926-2001) in inter-American post-war relations. He was an American intellectual relevant to inter-American relations in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a press professional linked to The New York Times. He made an itinerant journalistic coverage that crossed America…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

Hasta hace poco, los estudios sobre las prácticas musicales al interior de una logia masónica cubana eran casi inexistentes. Con la identificación de la Música para ritual masónico de Ramón Figueroa Morales dentro del Archivo de Música de la Catedral de Santiago de Cuba (AMCSC), se dio el primer paso hacia el entendimiento del tema en cuesti…[Read more]

Este trabajo tiene como finalidad estudiar brevemente el comportamiento de Popé (Po’pay), líder de la rebelión de los indios Pueblo de 1680. En cuanto al análisis del liderazgo de Popé, existen algunas obras que lo abordan, sin embargo no lo hacen con variables claras y explicitas, a lo que este trabajo busca contribuir, otorgando herr…[Read more]

La Operación Carlota fue, y continúa siendo, la mayor campaña militar latinoamericana en otro continente. Mediante la lectura de los principales momentos (de forma muy general y lo más resumido posible), sus antecedentes y unas breves reflexiones sobre esta campaña militar, se busca difundir y dar a conocer un acontecimiento poco conocido, que,…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the reception and influence of the Alliance for Progress in Venezuela during the 1960s (1961-1969). The US assistance program financed various social projects in Latin American countries, with the aim of promoting local development, and at the same time counteracting the impact of the Cuban Revolution (1959). Methodologically,…[Read more]

This essay analyzes the role of the Chilean Army in the debate for development and the Alliance for Progress in the country between 1961 and 1970. The Army followed the idea of development through articles in its magazines, and contributed with it through of special courses for conscript soldiers, as well as in construction tasks carried out by…[Read more]

country, due to two reasons: one, the high growth of the economy determined by high oil revenues, two, the lack of
This article analyzes the immigration policy of the Venezuelan State during administration of Pérez Jiménez (1952-1958). From December 1952 until January 1958, Marcos Pérez Jiménez governs Venezuela, first as interim president (un…[Read more]

The following historiographical study is referred to the History of the Portuguese in Venezuela (1959), by Miguel Acosta Saignes, it hill analyze the work of critical and reflective way, both internally and externally, to elucidate its contribution to one of the process greatest historic modern Venezuela, such as immigration, as well as…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the public life of Ildefonso Riera Aguinagalde (1834-1882) as a writer and politician who participated in the vagaries of the construction of the national state in the Venezuela’s nineteenth century. Based on a systematic historiographical review and consultation of primary sources, the Riera Aguinagalde political action was r…[Read more]

The IRA’s alleged connections with FARC, which surfaced in 2001 and continue to appear in the Irish and Colombian media, are an ideal opportunity to analyse perceptions of Latin America in Ireland. Newspaper articles, personal interviews, and the judgement of the Appeals Court in Bogotá have been used to study different attitudes in this puzzling…[Read more]