The ITT: Life at Stake por Falconí Benítez, Fander

“…The objective of this article is to explain the Yasuní-ITT proposal and the benefits it would bring, were it to be implemented, to the natural environment of the Amazon while contributing to the protection of local inhabitants. …”
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Beyond Precarity: Collective Practices and Political Subjectivities from Argentina’s Popular Economy por Álvarez, María Inés Fernández

“…This article is based on an ongoing ethnographic research project with cooperatives of street vendors that are part of the Confederation of Workers of Popular Economy (CTEP), a recently formed union in Argentina whose objective is to represent workers of the “popular economy”. …”
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Mechanisms of Diffusion for Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America. The Chilean Case por Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia

“…This article attempts to identify the characteristics and the operationalization of the various difussion mechanisms of the CCT program: emulation, learning and coercion. These aspects are analyzed through a qualitative case study of the formulation of Chile’s CTT program, Chile Solidario. …”
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Microconflictos ambientales y crisis de gobernabilidad en la Amazonía ecuatoriana por Fontaine, Guillaume

“…The central idea is that conflict management by the state-owned oil company, Petroecuador, can lead to “efficient” negotiations in the short term, at the cost of a longterm perspective, that seeks the institutionalization of agreements and an effective treatment of the structural causes of environmental conflicts. …”
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From the National to the Transnational. Resistances to Statehood in Africa and Latin America por Tabernero Martín, Carlos, Caballero, Sergio

“…Departing from the similarities and dierences that arise in these two circumstances, it is possible to analyze actions that diverge from the dominant International Relations explanation, which presents a dichotomy between the inside and the outside of borders, and in which the State is cast as the primary actor.…”
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Forced disappearances by non-state actors: The case laws of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights por Sferrazza-Taibi, Pietro

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Dynamics, vulnerabilities and prospects of the Colombian-Venezuelan border por Ardila, Martha, Lozano, Jorge Iván, Quintero, María Alejandra

“…In the first place, the links between prospective analysis and political risk assessment are examined. Next both are related to the features which are relevant to their study. …”
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El pluralismo religioso en la colonización campesina de Caranavi-Alto Beni: iglesias y poder en la sociedad rural boliviana por Zalles, Alberto

“…Besides, pluralism leads to new forms of religious retroaction that appear through growth of cults inspired by native subjects and cosmovisions.…”
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The Quantitative Methods in the Latin American Social Sciences por Cortés, Fernando

“…This text analyses how Statistics has been applied in sociological research during the last four decades, and its links to the main social and political processes. …”
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Democracy and participatory institutional designs in urban politics: a study of the contemporary Brazilian experience por Brasil, Flavia de Paula Duque

“…Then, urban politics are contextualized, pointing out the new legal frameworks that require participation and focusing on the design of institutions in this respect. Next, the article analyze key elements in participatory designs, comparing councils, conferences, participatory budgets and participation in master plans, questioning their reach and potential for democratization.…”
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Más allá del caso Texaco: ¿se puede rescatar al nororiente ecuatoriano? por Fontaine, Guillaume

“…Ahora bien, tras ocho años de lucha ante las cortes estadounidenses, este caso fue reenviado al Ecuador, según lo decidió en última instancia la Corte de Apelaciones, en agosto de 2002. …”
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Latin America and the Dragon: The Risks of an Economic-Commercial Relationship por Nacht, Pablo Alejandro

“…This study concludes that although some countries have seized the emerging power of China to secure a certain degree of autonomy before the United States and Europe, the costs for Latin America and the Caribbean are high, especially if the Beijing Consensus ensues.…”
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The Transformation of Housing Policy. The System of Incentives for Housing in the Construction of Quasi-Markets in Ecuador por Córdova, Marco Antonio

“…Methodologically the study analyzes the conditions underpinning the functioning of quasi-markets in housing (market structure, information, transaction of costs, motivation and adverse selection), as well as of the evalution criteria of the model (efficiency, sensibility, choice and equity). …”
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Antagonism and Dissent: Tensions and Limits within the Media’s Construction of Politics in Venezuela por Sibrian, Nairbis, Millones Espinosa, Mario

“…With the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 and the coup d’état that followed in 2002, this characteristic was redefined and deeply accentuated. …”
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Petróleo, seguridad ambiental y exploración petrolera marina en Colombia por Avellaneda Cusaría, Alfonso

“…Finally a discussion is presented on the new oil policy of the Colombian state in connection with the off-shore exploration and the absence of environmental controls to protect the marine ecosystems that underlie to the delivered areas for exploration during next years, ignoring the international legislation on the protection of the sea.…”
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Archive, Memory and History: Intersections and Approaches por Murgia, Eduardo Ismael

“…In order to outline our position in light of these questions, we begin by offering several reflections on individual and collective memory. Next, from a philosophical perspective, we point out some aspects of the archive, relating these with question of origins and power in the archive’s use for history. …”
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The Military Policy of the Rousseff Government: Reflections on the Conduct of the Armed Forces in the UPP and the MINUSTAH por Mathias, Suzeley Kalil, Campos, Bruce Scheidl, Santos, Leandro Fernandes Sampaio

“…This establishes the theoretical basis for the issues analyzed in this article. In the next section we describe the UPPs and why they were created, focusing on the case of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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The military influence on the political construction of Ecuadorian Indians during the twentieth century por Ortiz, Cecilia

“…On January 21, 2000 the military head officers staged a coup d’etat using a sector of high rank officers, the Indian organizations and the social organizations. …”
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Labour standards and non-state initiatives in Colombia’s and Ecuador’s flower industries por Korovkin, Tanya, Sanmiguel-Valderrama, Olga

“…The recent wave of global economic expansion was triggered to a large extent by the relocation of labourintensive industries to developing countries with low labour costs. While there is no doubt that this relocation has created employment, most of it is in low quality jobs. …”
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Fauna y flora del Ecuador... en extinsión por Fernández, Ana

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