This paper analyzes the military action response of the Chilean Army during and after the Earthquake of Valdivia of May 21th, 1960 and their impact on the armed institution and civil-military relations. After the strong earthquake, the government of Jorge Alessandri decreed “Emergency Zone” and authorizing the direct deployment of the army, und…[Read more]

This chapter examines the process by which Puerto Rican nationalists engaged with the Olympic Movement in their struggle for decolonization. Sotomayor shows not only shifting meanings of colonial Olympic sport for nationalists, but, more generally, that the Olympic Movement has been used and serves as a platform to negotiate nationalism and…[Read more]

I analyze the strategies used in Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz 2010), Enrique Buchichio’s Behind the Truth (Zanahoria 2014) and Nicolas Pereda’s Summer of Goliath (Verano de Goliath 2010) to expose the political uses of landscape images in concealing and reconstructing forced disappearances and the violence surro…[Read more]

This essay examines the US government’s attempts throughout the 20th century to
improve its relations with Latin America. It shows that most of these efforts were
motivated by external factors such as wars or conflicts with other world powers. Although genuine, these attempts were ultimately subordinate to the United States’
geopolitical and…[Read more]

Post Mortem by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín challenges traditional cinematic conventions of affect and spectacle through a narrative of spaces and bodies that is neither realist, comedic, nor melodramatic. This chapter draws upon affect theories that study the spectacle of cinematic spaces and political bodies in Latin American film. The…[Read more]

Estudio genético-genealógico sobre las familias Sotomayor y Colón del noroeste de Puerto Rico. Análisis de pruebas avanzadas de ADNY comprueban que los Sotomayor y Colón de Moca/Aguada (Puerto Rico) descienden agnaticiamente del matrimonio entre el capitán don Pedro Mexía de Lugo y doña Isabel de Sotomayor en el siglo XVI en Puerto Rico. Don Ped…[Read more]

This essay offers a reading of Glissant’s work on memory and history, arguing that traumatic experience is central to that work and consequent conceptions of identity. I explore the function of traumatic memory in relation to Glissant’s notions of the past and also futurity, both of which work with a sense of the painful past that simultaneously…[Read more]

On the woolfian view of the essence of Latin America

Desde mediados del 2005, archivistas- activistas del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala han estado digitalizando documentos policiales ocultos por más de un siglo para protegerlos, organizarlos y proporcionar acceso a los mismos — 23 millones de páginas hasta la fecha. Encontramos que la digitalización amplificó la reuti…[Read more]

In this essay is discussed the lack of scientific support in the teacher’s formation established in the laws

This article studies the intersection of sport, religion, and imperialism through the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) as an extension of United States expansion into Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War of 1898. The YMCA’s emphasis on “muscular Christianity” and sports made it attractive to some locals who welcomed this feature…[Read more]

Since mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police
records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve v…[Read more]

Genetic genealogy is a rapidly growing field. The potential for genetics to make genealogical connections and break brick walls is starting to be untapped. This is more so for Latin American and Caribbean societies where limited or non-existent documentation is a reality. This article uses advanced genetic testing to draw genealogies for a…[Read more]

Prepared for delivery at the International Symposium on the Neighborhood Diplomacy of Big Powers, October 25th-26th, 2018
Changsha, China

This review analyze the importance for the sociolinguistics studies on bilingualism in Paraguay of the work: Sociedad, Historia y Lengua en el Paraguay, wrote by Germán de Granda.

O objetivo do trabalho é analisar o jornal Centro Academico, publicado entre 1872 e 1873 por alunos da Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia do Rio de Janeiro e por alunos da Escola Central de Engenharia do Exército, como centro difusor de ideias republicanas durante o século XIX. Esse periódico diagnosticava o Império Brasileiro e, a partir diss…[Read more]

“World War II was the Twentieth Century event of greatest global repercussions. It was the most destructive, intense and geographically inclusive war in the history of the humanity. Puerto Rico was of critical importance for the strategic planning of the United States and the other powers. During the first stages of the war, the maritime areas of…[Read more]

The expropriation of U.S. companies —such as the International Petroleum Company— has been signaled in historiography as a decisive factor in determining the stance of the U.S. government towards Peru’s military regime. This study shows that Congressional motivations were rather of a political nature, associated with the seizure of U.S. fishi…[Read more]

A pesar de su innegable importancia por la posición que ocupa dentro del sistema político estadounidense, el Congreso no ha recibido la atención que merece de parte de los estudiosos del desarrollo histórico de la política exterior de Estados Unidos. Enfocados en las acciones del poder ejecutivo, éstos han minimizado o ignorado el papel del Congr…[Read more]