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Extractions: Participation in organised groups Children from the Ashaninka indigenous group stand inside their school in Junin, Peru. More than half the children (52%) indicate that they belong to some organised peer group, with those living in the Caribbean reporting the highest participation in groups (70%). Mexico, Andean countries, and the Southern Cone have the highest figures for those who say they don't belong to any organised peer group. Of the 31% who say they participate in a sports group, the highest participation is among those in rural areas, high and middle socio-economic status, males and blacks. 16% of the children surveyed report belonging to some religious group and half that number to an artistic group, such as music or theatre. Click below to view the responses to the questions related to this issue: [view] Situations of concern among peer groups The issues of greatest interest and concern within peer groups include school studies and gaining university entrance (32%) reported the most in Andean countries, Central America and Mexico; delinquency and security (21%), mostly in Brazil, the Southern Cone and Central America; and drug addiction and alcoholism (15%), particularly in Brazil. Other concerns making up less than 10% included family problems, friendships, and unemployment.
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Extractions: - Stephanie, age 17, Costa Rica. The right to have a family A football practice in Salvador, Brazil. The family is experiencing a process of change within its basic nucleus. There is a high rate (one in four) of absence of the father figure, and 7% of respondents live with neither a biological father or mother, a condition most prevalent in the Caribbean (12%). One in five young children and adolescents (22% of total sample) live only with their mother, with the highest incidence in Brazil (26%) and the Caribbean (24%). While present in all the segments, the occurrence increases as income goes down, for inhabitants of urban areas, females, adolescents and blacks. Click below to view the responses to the questions related to this issue: [view] [view] Prevalence of feelings of happiness A third of respondents indicate that they experience feelings of happiness infrequently - 27 per cent say they feel happy only on some occasions and 5 per cent say they never or almost never feel happy. This increases within the segments having less income, with black or indigenous racial background, those who work for pay, and adolescents (who say the family is their main source of feelings of happiness or unhappiness.)
Estevanicos Legacy: Rethinking Colonial Latin American Studies colonialist drama as one of its notable omissions. such as Memmis for colonialLatin American studies, I colonizer, not those of his own people (Memmi 91 http://www.mtp.dk/authors/adorno/docs/2002e.htm
Extractions: Yale University 1. Transatlantic and Tri-Continental 2. The Colonial Situation and Linguistic Dualism 3. Colonialism and the Book Works Cited 1. Transatlantic and Tri-Continental In a 1994 reference work called Historic World Leaders The Colonizer and the Colonized, originally published in French in 1957 under the title, Portrait du Colonisé précédé du Portrait du Colonisateur, as the major postcolonialist contribution of the end of the 1950s. 2. The Colonial Situation and Linguistic Dualism Top Memmi further described the colonial situation, as it pertains to the colonized, in these terms: Carrying the burden of history, the colonized is always its object, never its subject; the memory and history he is assigned are those of the colonizer, not those of his own people (Memmi 91-92, 95). Oppressed by the laws under which he lives, the colonized lacks the rights of citizenship and is denied any participation in the governance of even community affairs, and so he takes refuge in the traditional culture of family and/or religion. If saved from illiteracy, he falls into a linguistic dualism (Memmi 99-101, 105, 106). In this apparently descriptive assessment of his own ethnic community, Memmi implicitly raised many of the pertinent issues regarding external and self-identification. The immediacy of these questions as Memmi posed them created a threshold, easily crossed, that allowed my students entrance into the realm populated by the creole (
Latin America: Empowering Civil Society This year, more than 50,000 people are converging on Two latin American recipientsof the Nobel Peace Prize are also among the Forums notable guests, as are http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pa1.htm
Extractions: BACK TO MAIN ONLINE BOOKSTORE HOW TO ORDER Latin America: Empowering civil society Porto Alegre, Brazil, 31 Jan 2002 (IPS/Gustavo Gonzalez) - Grassroots activists and members of civil society must be empowered to assert their economic, social and cultural rights in the context of a globalized world, say many of the Latin American organisations participating in the second World Social Forum in this southern Brazilian city through 5 February. Latin America, and particularly host-country Brazil, is playing a leading role in this second annual gathering of independent and non-governmental entities, an event born in January 2001 as a counterweight to the World Economic Forum, a yearly meeting in which the worlds most powerful politicians and business executives set the world economic agenda. At the first World Social Forum, 18,000 people from 117 countries participated, including delegates from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and participants in the Youth Camp and the Indigenous Nations Camp. This year, more than 50,000 people are converging on Porto Alegre, convened under the motto, another world is possible.
Extractions: From the Amazon Project [see below for home page] http://www.athenapub.com/orellan1.htm From the journal, Athena Review, comes this paper on Francisco de Orellana, a mid-16th century governor of Guayaquil, Ecuador, who joined a 1541-1542 expedition that was the first to travel the entire length of the Amazon River. I found the paper especially interesting for its details on the "Amazon" women warriors (for whom Orellana named the river), and their lion or jaguar goddess, who loved offerings of bright bird feathers: ....[she] required tribute from these villagers in the form of colored macaw and parrot feathers used to line the roofs of their temples. http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/suriname/suri-eng.html This is a lovely, rich site on the rainforests of Suriname (east of Venezuela) done by Marco Bleeker, who took the photos as a doctoral student in biology at the University of Utrecht, NL. It has a "slide show," which means when you click on the designated bar, you'll see a series of gorgeous photos of colorful flowers, plants, snakes, frogs from the jungle; a few jungle sounds also play from time to time. (See below for one of his photos.)
Extractions: Revolución de Amor has the magic to act as pain relief for anyone who identifies with the chaotic world we live in nowadays. With this album, Maná proves that rock and pop can be musically surrounded by power ballads, bolero, salsa and the influences of Hindu and Afro-Cuban rhythms at the same time. The lyrics of the songs are still gummy and repetitive (an unfortunate Maná trademark), but they are more mature and powerful since it's not all about "Boy meets girl, boy loses girl" anymore. Instead, they deal with political and social matters. The lyrics are also very optimistic. The band urges people to open their mouth, speak for their rights, walk away from their taboos and live their lives the way they want to. Of course, love isn't entirely absent from the album. The lyrics include quotes about love from such notable people as Sub-Comandante Marcos a Mexican activist leader Jesus Christ, John Lennon, Beethoven and Gandhi, among others. These quotes have the intention to make people think about revolution not as a synonym of anarchy, but rather as an evolution leading to unity.
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DATE- 19890204 -YEAR- 1989 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- INTERVIEW -AUTHOR- F. in the contacts you have had with latin American dignitaries, have you detectedany sign that this meeting of notable people from latin American politics http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1989/19890204.2
Extractions: -DATE- 19890204 -YEAR- 1989 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- INTERVIEW -AUTHOR- F.CASTRO -HEADLINE- U.S REACTION TO VISIT IN CARACAS -PLACE- CARACAS -SOURCE- HAVANA TELEVISION SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19890207 -TEXT- U.S. Reaction to Visit FL0402032589 Havana Television Service in Spanish 0100 GMT 4 Feb 89 [Text] Commander in Chief Fidel Castro's presence here in Caracas has been the focus of attention for the media and broad sectors of Caracas public opinion. [Begin recording] [Castro] I could not disregard Carlos Andres Perez' invitation. I had to come after he invited me and there was so much controversy regarding the invitation. The U.S. ambassador also was involved in the controversy. He said the United States would not like for me to come. I thought this was interference. This increased my desire to come here. [Unidentified reporter] President, in the hours you have been in Caracas, in the contacts you have had with Latin American dignitaries, have you detected any sign that this meeting of notable people from Latin American politics... [Castro, interrupting] And the world. [Reporter] Exactly, and the world... [Castro, interrupting] Because Felipe [Gonzalez] is not from Latin America. It would be Ibero-American. [Reporter] Ibero-American. Could a concrete initiative aimed at getting Latin America out of its big problem, the foreign debt, come about? [Castro] I believe a movement is gestating. It is preceded by an awareness by Latin American countries of the need to act in a concerted way and to act united and with solidarity to find a solution to these problems. Not only the foreign debt problem, but unequal trade, the need for a new international economic order, the need to end protectionism, dumping [preceding word in English], and a number of measures that damage Latin American countries terribly. So, we could say that an awareness of all this is gestating. It would not be as important and it is not as necessary for an initiative to come up. The important thing is to express a will for unity and a common struggle. It is very difficult to thoroughly analyze problems in events such as this one. This is not a meeting to analyze a problem; it is a meeting to attend an event. People from all parts of the world are meeting here. There are people from OPEC, people from the Social Democracy, people from all countries, people from the Nonaligned Movement, and Latin American people. [Words indistinct] a number of [words indistinct] it is impossible to analyze in-depth a problem. This doesn't mean that an initiative is going to come out of this. It means that people are uniting forces. [end recording] [Dominguez] Vice Minister, some observers cannot understand why the United States is bent on sending former Batista policeman Armando Valladares as its ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights, that man has a terrorist background and he was a complete failure during the last meeting of the commission. What do you think about this? [Roa] I do not understand what prompted the United States to appoint former Batista policeman Valladares as head of the U.S. delegation of Geneva. First, Valladares has a notorious reputation as a former policeman during the Batista tyranny; second, he is a convicted terrorist. Valladares, together with a group of counterrevolutionaries, were tried in Cuba, found guilty of terrorist activities, and sentenced. What we must ask ourselves is whether the appointment is the result of the close ties between U.S. leaders and the Cuban worms who finance the U.S. Republican Party's policy. We must ask ourselves if this is the only reason, if this is the U.S. leader's way of rewarding the rich worms who donate money for the Republican Party's campaigns. Perhaps that is the answer. Another explanation could be that the new U.S. Administration wishes to continue the confrontational policy practiced by the Reagan administration in Latin America. [Dominguez] Meanwhile, the Latin American people ask themselves whether the appointment of Valladaresa notorious terrorist, an inept person, and a former Batista policemanas head of the U.S. delegation has political significance. -END-
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Extractions: Chapter for the Spanish edition of Elite Discourse and Racism Elite Discourse and Racism in Latin America Fourth draft. November 10, 2002 Comments welcome! Introduction Racism in Latin America has many properties in common with racism in Europe , not least because also in the Americas it is especially engaged in by people of European descent and with similar ideologies about non-Europeans we have found in the previous chapters. Yet, there are important historical, economic, social and cultural particularities, as well as differences among various Latin-American countries, that need to be stressed from the start: Latin-American racisms are systems of ethnic-racial dominance historically rooted in European colonialism and its legitimization, that is, in conquest, the exploitation and genocide of the indigenous Amerindian peoples and the enslavement of Africans by European settlers and their descendants. Racism in Europe is generally directed against foreigners who are different, whereas in Latin America it is the foreign immigrants from Europe who discriminated against the indigenous peoples, as well as against different foreigners from
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Extractions: Luminoso PlaceMenu("boundmenu1") PlaceMenu("boundmenu2") PlaceMenu("boundmenu3_on") PlaceMenu("boundmenu4") PlaceMenu("boundmenu5") PlaceMenu("boundmenu_home") collections electronic resources internet resources finding aids ... exchanges For research papers or reviews requiring critical examination of people, countries, events, time periods, or themes in Latin American history in general, consult the following: Reference Materials General Bibliographies and Guides Historical Dictionaries ... Internet Resources (all shelved on the 2nd floor, in the Reference Department). Use these sources for a general overview of historical figures or events in a particular country or Latin America in general. ALMANACS Peoples of the World. Latin Americans: the Culture, Geographical Setting, and Historical Background of 42 Latin American Peoples. 1989. N. MIA REF F1408.M84 1989
Extractions: Go to the following pages for other parts of P eople w ith a H istory Main Page Introduction : History and Theory Section I : The Ancient Mediterranean Section II : Medieval Worlds [The West, Byzantium, Islam] Section III : Europe to World War I Section IV : Europe Since World War I Section V : North America Section VI : Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania Section VII : Special Themes Section IX : LGBT History Links Section X : FAQ Section XI : Picture Gallery
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Extractions: If William Andrews has his way, no minority student on campus will feel left out or isolated. "We are not going to allow any students that we serve to fall through the cracks," said Andrews, the newly appointed assistant dean at the John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute. "We won't let any students on campus feel isolated. We won't allow any students to fail." In his new role, Andrews will oversee the counseling, education and career services programs at the institute. He will also administer the institute's two scholarship funds: the Martin Luther King Jr. and the Ralph Bunche awards. Prior to Northeastern, the Richmond, Va., native was a senior clinician, family counselor, director of adolescent services and interim director of family counseling at Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury. Minton Goldman , associate professor of political science, presented a paper on the roots and causes of the 1992 split of Czechoslovakia at the 5th World Conference on Central and Eastern European Studies held in Warsaw, Poland, in August. Thomas Cullinane , professor of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering, was the guest speaker at the Institute of Industrial Engineers' season opening meeting Oct. 4 in Dracut. He discussed the evolution of the industrial engineer's function and new challenges facing the profession.
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Extractions: Guillermo Castro Herrera I In the course of one generation, Latin America has deeply changed in its realities as well as in the dominant perceptions about its own future, going from an exulted optimism about its possibilities for social and economic progress to a dark mood of pessimism and uncertainty. Today, many different sources coincide in considering that what started in 1982 as a simple economic crisis has become a virtual crisis of civilization, which synthesizes our societies' difficulties in successfully facing the new challenges derived from the ongoing transformations of the world as we once knew it. For our societies, the main issue at stake in this situation is the persisting combination of economic growth (although mediocre most of the time) with social deterioration and environmental degradation, in a context of exacerbation of what may be called a "plundering economy", whose roots go at least to the 16 th century. Particularly, it can be said that the problems affecting the region are the consequence of the ways our societies have been organized to fulfill some specific functions within the really existing international system for the last one hundred and fifty years, at least. This kind of situation should be the most adequate for the development of a Latin American environmental history, conceived in the most essential as a discipline dealing with the transformations produced in the natural world by humans, through socially organized work, and with the impact of those transformations in human development. The fact is, however, that it has not been so, and that scarcity more than plenty is the problem to be faced here.
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Extractions: Rio Group Ministerial - Vouliagmeni, 28 March 2003 SPEECH/03/160 - Check against delivery I am delighted that despite the difficult international background - we are meeting again here in Vouliagmeni, under the excellent Greek Presidency. The crisis today makes our meeting a meeting between friends who share common values- more, not less important. We have been meeting in this format since 1990. If I had to identify our main success, it would be
