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Mexico's Dirty War: A Reassessment

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 211-224, June 2024.
Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation.
Alex Aviña, Benjamin T. Smith
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The politics of development in Ecuador: Accounting for plural rationalities

Latin American Policy, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 269-287, June 2024.
Abstract Recent protests and tense elections in Ecuador suggest a strong polarization regarding the development model. The diversity of vindications underscores the plurality of development notions, rendering it a wicked problem, which is characterized by the presence of multiple definitions. Employing sociocultural viability theory, four ideal‐typical
Pablo Garcés‐Velástegui
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Blastocystis infection frequency and subtype distribution in university students

Heliyon, 2020
Blastocystis is a parasite commonly found in the gut of humans and animals; there are 22 known subtypes (STs). STs 1-9 and 12 have been found in humans.
Marcela Ramírez Pérez, Claudia Muñoz Yáñez, Alejandra Méndez Hernández, Jesús Jaime Duarte Sustaita, Efraín Gaytan Jiménez, Marisela Rubio Andrade, Gonzalo Gerardo García Vargas, Janeth Oliva Guangorena Gómez   +7 more
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The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–2023

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 3, Page 486-499, May 2024.
Abstract Objective The purpose of this article is to explain how Peronism, an allegedly personalist party, has managed to institutionalize its internal power struggles and its succession procedures since democratization in 1983. Methods The authors employ the common conceptual framework developed for this special issue.
Andres Malamud, Leiv Marsteintredet
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Citizen security in Mexico: Legacies of distrust

Latin American Policy, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 9-25, March 2024.
Abstract The article provides a backdrop to citizen security in Mexico, presenting a critique that challenges the democratic bases of citizen security and offering an alternate genealogy of its analytical and practical implementations. On the one hand, citizen security emerges not only from a violent legacy of national security but also amid larger ...
R. Guy Emerson
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Esponjas marinas (Porifera) del Parque Nacional Caguanes, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba

Revista de Investigaciones Marinas, 2021
Se presentan los resultados de la evaluación ecológica de las esponjas marinas del Parque Nacional Caguanes. Los inventarios se realizaron en marzo de 2003 en 26 estaciones, incluyendo los fondos blandos y los manglares.
Zuleika Marcos Sardiñas, José Espinosa
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Una larga marcha [PDF]

, 2023
Como aporte al campo de estudios de los procesos de movilización social y política de los sesenta-setenta, esta tesis pretende reconstruir y analizar, desde una perspectiva sociohistórica y sociopolítica, la trayectoria del Partido Comunista Revolucionario (PCR) como emergente de la “nueva izquierda” (NI), desde la gestación de la fractura en el seno ...
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Empathy and attitudes toward protecting migrants from criminal violence

Latin American Policy, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 99-128, March 2024.
Abstract Migrants in Latin America are increasingly vulnerable to organized crime violence while en route to their destination. Public opinion regarding how to address this problem varies. While many residents of countries along migration routes support policies protecting migrants from organized crime, others oppose them. What explains this variation?
Rebecca Bell‐Martin, Alejandro Díaz Domínguez   +1 more
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Comportamiento de algunos indicadores demográficos. Municipio Plaza de la Revolución. 2006

Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas, 2008
Realizamos un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo sobre el comportamiento de algunos indicadores demográficos, fundamentalmente aquellos relacionados con la fecundidad, en el Municipio "Plaza de la Revolución" durante 2006.   Observamos un predominio de la
Joel Pagola Leyva, Madelín Mendoza Trujillo, Mayra Rendueles Hernández   +2 more
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Agent-Based Evacuation Modeling: Enhancing Building Safety in Emergency Scenarios

Smart Cities
Buildings and their supporting infrastructure are vulnerable to both natural and human-made disasters, which pose significant risks to the safety of the occupants.
Miguel Islas-Toski, Erik Cuevas, Marco Pérez-Cisneros, Héctor Escobar   +3 more
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