ANNOUNCEMENTS
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CALL FOR LECTURES AT CLACS FOR FALL 2013
The
Center for Latin American and Caribbean studies invites faculty and graduate
students (in the last stage of their dissertation writing) to present at the
Lecture Series Fall 13
Lecture
presentations take place in an informal, friendly, and supportive setting where
you share any selected aspect of your academic research with graduate and
undergraduate students and faculty. Our aim is not only to promote students but
also to involve faculty to participate and share their work.
Typically
the presenter speaks for 40 to 50 minutes and then invites audience for
questions, comments and discussion.
Brown
Bags presentations at CLACS are held on Thursdays from noon to 1:30pm in 101
International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street in Champaign.
CLACS
can provide a lap top and a projector.
I
schedule presenters on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are interested
you can sign up for any of the following dates:
October
3, 17, 254, 31
Nov
7, 14
December
5
If
interested contact Angelina Cotler (cotler@illinois.edu)
- SUMMER 2013 ONLINE COURSES (Quechua and Introduction to Latin American Studies) http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/courses/default.aspx
- FALL 2013 APPROVED COURSES http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/courses/default.aspx
- NEW CLACS BLOG http://clacs-uiuc.blogspot.com
- LEMANN INSTITUTE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES TRAVEL GRANTS
The Lemann Institute offers travel grants
to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate and undergraduate students
who have been accepted to present papers at academic conferences in the U.S.
and abroad. Any student can apply to up to 2 conferences in the U.S. per year
OR 1 international conference. http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/lemann/fellowships/default.aspx
<http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/lemann/fellowships/default.aspx>
- GRADUATE MINOR IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Only 3 graduate courses
http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/graduate/minor/default.aspx
<http://www.clacs.illinois.edu/academics/graduate/minor/default.aspx>
- VISIT THE NEW AND IMPROVED WEBPAGE OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARRIBEAN STUDIES COLLECTION AT THE LIBRARY http://www.library.illinois.edu/ias/lat/index.html
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Department
of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
The
SIP Colloquium
Presents
RUBBER
SOULS: NARRATIVS OF VIBRANT MATERIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
Prof.
HECTOR HOYOS, Stanford University
MONDAY, APRIL 29
4-6 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge
Professor
Hoyos will discuss the articulation of new materialisms (Latour, Bennet) and
historical materialisms in the study of Latin American narrative. The
presentation contrasts the agency of objects in the work of Fernando Ortiz with
the role of rubber in selected works from Fordism and post-Fordism, including
J.E. Rivera's La Vorágine (1924) and Ariel Magnus' Muñecas
(2008), in order to highlight reciprocal contributions between Latin American
cultural production and current thinking on materiality.
Lecture
co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Presents
Prof. CHARLES HALE
Prof of Anthropology and African Diaspora Studies. Director of
the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and Benson Latin American
Collection.
University of Texas at Austin
CONSUMPTION AND COLONIALITY: BLACK AND INDIGENOUS POLITICS AT
THE TWILIGHT OF NEOLIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM
TUESDAY, APRIL 30
2:00PM
101 International Studies Building
This
paper, situated geographically in black and indigenous Central America, takes
the rise of neoliberal multiculturalism as the backdrop for thinking through
the tensions and convergences between two theoretical currents: critical
race theory, whose genealogy is traced through the black radical tradition of
the north, and “coloniality of power,” primarily rooted in indigenous and
mestizo radical traditions of the south. I am interested in understanding
the awkward moments of desencuentro between the two, especially given
their ostensible commonalities. More important, I pursue this comparative
analysis by pressing both into service in helping make sense of black and
indigenous political horizons given the gradual eclipse of neoliberal
multiculturalism by a still faintly visible, but generally alarming, successor
governance project.
Internationally
respected in his field of activist anthropology, Dr. Hale focuses on race and
ethnicity, identity politics, and consciousness and resistance. He is a recent
past president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and the author
of Más que un Indio: Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in
Guatemala and Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan
State, 1894–1987. He is also editor of Engaging Contradictions: Theory,
Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship. Dr. Hale received his B.A.
from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He taught at the
University of California, Davis, before joining the faculty at the University
of Texas in 1996.
Lecture
co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
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Department
of Anthropology
Presents
INFECTIOUS
DISEASES AND PRIMATE CONSERVATION: AN OUTBREAK OF YELLOW FEVER IN SOUTHERN
BRAZIL
JULIO
CESAR BICCA-MARQUES, Lemann Visiting Professor
109A
Davenport Hall
Tuesday
April 30th 2:00 PM
Hunting and habitat loss and fragmentation have long been
recognized as the major threats to primate conservation. Awareness of the importance
of infectious diseases, on the other hand, grew only in the past decade. In
this talk I’ll discuss the strategies that managers adopt to control disease
outbreaks and the consequences of an outbreak of yellow fever to the
conservation of the threatened black-and-gold (Alouatta caraya) and
brown (Alouatta guariba clamitans) howler monkeys in the State of Rio
Grande do Sul in southern Brazil.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1st
2:00-3:30PM
101 International Studies Building
PAULO ROBERTO ALMEIDA
BRAZILIAN FOREIGN POLICY: THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MISTER
LULA
The presentation
will deal with the presidential diplomacy developed during Lula's Administration,
in the context of the international agenda and the main features of previous
diplomacy, handled by the professional staff at Itamaraty during the previous
two mandates of FHC. It is important to take into account the world vision of
PT leaders, as it has a direct impact over the diplomatic agenda implemented
during Lula's two mandates. No one of the main diplomatic objectives of
president Lula -- a permanent chair at the UN Security Council, the
consolidation and expansion of Mercosur as the hub of a economic integrated
space in South America, and the successful conclusion of multilateral trade
negotiations -- was achieved, and the reasons were lack of appropriate
strategies and too much ideology. The most negative consequences of Lula's two
terms were the commoditization of external trade and an erosion of
competitiveness in the industrial sector, both due to domestic factors, not
external forces.
Ph.D. in Social Sciences (University of Brussels, 1984); Master in
Economic Planning (University of Antwerp, 1977); Professor, Post Graduate Law
Studies - Uniceub (2004-2013); Invited Professor at IHEAL - Latin America High
Studies Institute - University of Paris-3 (Sorbonne) (2012)
Economic Counselor, Embassy in Paris (1993-1995); Head of
Financial Policy Division – Itamaraty (1996-1999); Minister-Counselor, Embassy
in Washington (1999-2003); Strategic Affairs Unity of the Presidency
(2003-2007); Deputy Commissioner of Brazil at Shanghai Expo 2010; Deputy
General Consul of Brazil in Hartford-CT (2013-___ )
Author of many books and articles on international relations,
Brazilian foreign policy, and regional integration (Mercosur): www.pralmeida.org
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OPPORTUNITIES
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For
more information: http://fulbright.edu.co/?utm_source=Universidades+EE.UU.&utm_campaign=1d5e6e7c9c-US_scholar_Comunidad4_23_2013&utm_medium=email#?page_name=Interna&idFile=2788&cssColor=1&idMap=401
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CALL FOR PAPERS/ CONFERENCES
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The Eleventh International Conference on New Directions
in the Humanities
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
19 - 21 June 2013
http://lashumanidades.com/congreso for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://thehumanities.com/the-conference for proposals in English
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
19 - 21 June 2013
http://lashumanidades.com/congreso for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://thehumanities.com/the-conference for proposals in English
Registration
deadline: 19 May 2013
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The Twentieth International Conference on Learning
University of the Aegeon, Rhodes, Greece11 - 13 July 2013
http://sobrelaeducacion.com/congreso for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://thelearner.com/the-conference for proposal in English
University of the Aegeon, Rhodes, Greece11 - 13 July 2013
http://sobrelaeducacion.com/congreso for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://thelearner.com/the-conference for proposal in English
Registration
deadline: 11 June 2013
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The Eighth International Conference on
Interdisciplinary Social Science
Charles
University, Prague, Czech Republic
30
June - 1 August 2013
http://lascienciassociales.com/congreso for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://thesocialsciences.com/the-conference for proposals in English
http://lascienciassociales.com/congreso for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://thesocialsciences.com/the-conference for proposals in English
Registration
deadline: 30 June 2013
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The Eleventh International Conference on Books and
Publishing
Universität Regensburg Universitätsbibliothek, Regensburg, Germany
26 - 27 September 2013.
http://sobreellibro.com/conference-2013/ for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://booksandpublishing.com/the-conference for proposals in English
Universität Regensburg Universitätsbibliothek, Regensburg, Germany
26 - 27 September 2013.
http://sobreellibro.com/conference-2013/ for proposals in Spanish and Portuguese
http://booksandpublishing.com/the-conference for proposals in English
Registration
deadline: 26 June 2013
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6th Annual CONELIT 2013: Gender, Sexualities and
representations
August
14-16, 2013
Lima, Perú
Lima, Perú
Red Literaria Peruana (Peruvian Literary Network), in association with Casa de la Literatura Peruana and the Institute for the Humanities at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, cordially invite submissions for the 6th CONELIT Students Conference on Latin American and Peninsular Literatures. Each year, CONELIT brings together students and scholars from a wide variety of countries of Latin America, Europe and the United States.
In 2013 CONELIT celebrates 6 years of promoting spaces of academic dialogue and diversity from Latin America to the world.
- Main Topic: Gender discourses in Latin America, Spain and Portugal constructed through Literature, Film, Visual Arts, Perfomance and Public Spaces.
Keynote Speakers: Diamela Eltit (NYU - Chile), Victoria Barrientos (PUCP)
Proposal deadline: May 5th, 2013
Contact information:
conelit@literatura.pe
http://literatura.pe/conelit
Phone Numbers PERU: +51 997302266 / USA +1 3055053223
http://literatura.pe/conelit
Phone Numbers PERU: +51 997302266 / USA +1 3055053223
Additional
information: Call for papers also available in Spanish and Portuguese
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Radical Caribbeans/Los Caribes Radicales
October
3-5, 2013
New Orleans, Lousiana
Sponsored by the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, Tulane University.
New Orleans, Lousiana
Sponsored by the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, Tulane University.
Etymologically, the word radical is derived from the Latin radicalis, to have roots. In that sense, this conference proposes to explore the roots of Caribbean life and culture, but from a “radical” perspective, invoking the word’s usage as “a change or action relating or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.”
Rather than approaching the greater Caribbean through its metropolises or mainstream critical apparatuses, a radical perspective of the Caribbean entails restaging our analytical perspectives to look at Caribbean life and culture through alternative prisms that disconnect, reconnect and electrocute how the region has tradicionally been framed. Thus we welcome papers that follow rhizomatic trajectories, from and away from the city through the countryside, into the diaspora and maybe back again: how are those in these geographical, ideological, and cultural other interesecting spaces transforming the Caribbean radicalis? Our impetus is to push the boundaries of what and how we understand the caribbean beyond the glittering façade of the lettered city and its grounded denizens onto other landscapes that have always been in its shadow and the travelers that configure its outer parameters.
Proposal deadline: June 15th 2013
Contact
information: Please send abstracts of 250 words and contact information to lopez@tulane.edu or icaballe@tulane.edu.
Also check http://cuba.tulane.edu/
Also check http://cuba.tulane.edu/
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FIEALC, (Federación Internacional de Estudios de
América Latina y el Caribe) Congreso XVI “El viejo Mundo y el nuevo mundo en la
era del dialogo”SubtemaVI Lengua, lingüística, literatura, arte y cultura:
pasado y presente.Iconografías latinoamericanas: la ciudad y el campo como
fuentes de representaciones y universos simbólicos
8,
9, 10 y 11 de octubre de 2013
Antalya, Turquía
Antalya, Turquía
Las fuentes iconográficas son nuevos objetos de estudios requeridos por las disciplinas históricas, sociales, humanas, filosóficas, semióticas, estéticas y otras, es decir “lecturas transdiciplinarias” (García Canclini) para realizar ingresos renovados a la realidad cultural de América latina y el Caribe.
La constitución de argumentaciones y en particular la organización de epistemologías desde matrices del “viejo mundo” en particular de las Bellas Artes con sus propuestas explicitadas en dibujos, pinturas, esculturas y arquitecturas crearon todo un ideario sobre la ciudad y el campo como fuente inspiracional a lo largo de estos últimos siglos en vastos y recónditos territorios.
Así también, las artes industriales con las tecnologías de la prensa, los archivos fotográficos, las propuestas del diseño y la organización del cine regional y de autor, han marcado las prácticas sobre la ciudad y el campo, en particular en las luchas sociales y la reivindicación popular.
En fin, las tipologías iconográficas en nuestro continente han dado consistencia a renovadores discursos sobre la identidad, el sentido de lo latinoamericano y en muchos casos han constituido trincheras representacionales y políticas precisas desde un acontecimiento urbano o de un hecho rural. Por lo mismo, las iconografías han producido “diálogos entre el viejo y el nuevo mundo”, así también han creado numerosos universos simbólicos que operan entre la subjetivación y la objetivación de tensados imaginarios culturales (N. Richard).
La imagen fija, la imagen en movimiento, el dibujo en papel, la pintura en lienzos, las esculturas en los espacios públicos, los estilos en la ciudad de los muertos o en la viva estructura urbana, los negativos fotográficos, los archivos fílmicos, los originales analógicos o los del mundo digital, son entradas direccionadas de la representación desde las “estructuras del sentimiento” (R.Williams) pues nos entregan una ciudad y ruralidad primeramente visualizada y soñada, pero sobre todo utópicamente amada.
Esta propuesta apunta a realizar un balance, rectificar omisiones de las “cultura mudas de América Latina y el Caribe” (P. Freire) y principalmente darle coherencia científica a este campo de resonancias que establecen múltiples exploraciones desde corpus consistentes que definen campos fecundos de acción analítica y crítica: una “ecología de saberes” (B de Sousa), un campo de identidades simbólicas precisas.
Proponemos una mesa establecida en cuatro matrices culturales:
- Idearios iconográficos de la ciudad y el campo del siglo XIX
- Políticas de las representaciones de la modernidad urbana/rural
- Análisis discursivos iconográficos entre la tradición y el progreso
- Nuevas transiconografías (hibridismos)
Proposal deadline: 5 agosto 2013
Contact
information: Dr.
Gonzalo Leiva Quijada, Chile, Académico e investigador Instituto de Estética,
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. gleivaq@uc.cl
Dra. Andrea Casa Nova Maia, Brasil. Profesora de Historia del Instituto de Historia de la Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro andreacn.bh@gmail.com
Dra. Andrea Casa Nova Maia, Brasil. Profesora de Historia del Instituto de Historia de la Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro andreacn.bh@gmail.com
Additional
information:
Informes e inscripciones, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Necati Kutlu, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Ankara, e-mail: kutlu@ankara.edu.tr y lamerika@ankara.edu.tr
Consultas especiales: Coordinación General de la FIEALC (CCyDEL, CIALC, UNAM) Torre II de Humanidades, lo piso, C. U. México, Tel. (5255) 56 16 25 15, e-mail: zea@unam.mx
Informes e inscripciones, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Necati Kutlu, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Ankara, e-mail: kutlu@ankara.edu.tr y lamerika@ankara.edu.tr
Consultas especiales: Coordinación General de la FIEALC (CCyDEL, CIALC, UNAM) Torre II de Humanidades, lo piso, C. U. México, Tel. (5255) 56 16 25 15, e-mail: zea@unam.mx
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2013 LABEL Workshop: ‘Human and Environmental Security
in Cross-border Regions: Multidisciplinary approaches in Latin America’.
October
10 – 11, 2013
Luxembourg City (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)
Luxembourg City (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)
Workshop synopsis Human security and environmental security are timely and relevant matters in global geopolitics, and Latin America is not the exception. However, they have rarely been empirically examined in cross-border areas in relation to regional institutional dynamics and regional human security regimes. The purpose of 2013 LABEL Workshop is to explore these interactions bringing together three different disciplinary analysis specifically for the Latin American region: human and environmental security, border studies, and regional integration studies. The workshop seeks to contribute to international debates on human and environmental security: 1) analyzing social process and mechanisms that link environmental security to human security and the respect of human rights in the region, 2) discussing how these concepts can be operationalized in terms of a) policy-making in a local cross-border context, and b) civil society participation; and 3) examining how regional organisms and civil society define or address environmental and human security issues in cross-border areas.
Some suggested sub-topics to authors are: i) Descentralised cooperation, ii) Movement of people, iii) Integration, iv) Environmental resources management, v) Social, economic and cultural development, vi) Indigenous peoples, vii) Cultural identities, viii) Local public policies, ix) Gender-based violence, and x) Successful inter-communal actions.
In particular, paper and panel proposals in the areas of Sociology, Political Science, History, Development, Regional studies, Gender studies, Cinema, Literature and Cultural studies are encouraged.
Proposal deadline: June 9, 2013
Contact
information:
Label2013@uni.lu
Scientific committee
LABEL:
Isabel Yepez (UCL)
Philippe de Lombaerde (UNU-CRIS)
Kristine Vanden Berghe (ULg)
UNILU & RISC (Organization team of the 2013 LABEL Workshop):
Carmen Maganda and Harlan Koff
Mónica Velasco Pufleau
Further information may be found on www.risc.lu
Label2013@uni.lu
Scientific committee
LABEL:
Isabel Yepez (UCL)
Philippe de Lombaerde (UNU-CRIS)
Kristine Vanden Berghe (ULg)
UNILU & RISC (Organization team of the 2013 LABEL Workshop):
Carmen Maganda and Harlan Koff
Mónica Velasco Pufleau
Further information may be found on www.risc.lu
Paper and panel proposals on the above-mentioned sub-topics and areas of knowledge (or any other related) should be submitted by e-mail as a word document before June 10, 2013 to Label2013@uni.lu. Proposals may be written in French, Spanish or English and should consist of an abstract not longer than 250 words (including the title). The author’s name, institution and e-mail, as well as a brief description of her/his academic/scholar background, shall be included on top of it. Proposals may be submitted by more than one author. Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the Scientific committee of the 2013 LABEL Workshop.
Please note that all correspondence will be done via e-mail. Notifications of accepted paper and panel proposals will be done to authors between June 21 and June 25, 2013. Full papers will be presented by authors (one per paper) in one of the 2013 LABEL Workshop’s panels and may be considered for publication in the Regions & Cohesion journal.
Financial support for speakers
The organization will cover related accommodation and meals of all speakers (one per paper) during the workshop period, prior registration (see details below).
Further information
Working languages of the 2013 LABEL Workshop are French, Spanish and English. Simultaneous translation will not be available. Registration fee for the workshop is 15 euros, which includes an annual subscription to LABEL.
The preliminary programme of the workshop, as well as the information as regards the registration process and other practical information (accommodation, venue...) will be published beginning of July 2013. Information concerning full papers submission and panels will be directly sent to authors via e-mail, once they confirm their participation to the 2013 LABEL Workshop, and not later than mid-July 2013.
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IN THE COMMUNITY
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ECUADORIAN MOBILE CONSULATE / CONSULADO
MOVIL DE ECUADOR
The
Consulate General of Ecuador in Chicago with support from The Church of
Saint Mary's (Iglesia Catolica Oscar Romero) in Champaign and the Ecuadorian
Students' Association, invites the Ecuadorian community in Champaign and Urbana
to participate in the Mobile Consulate and Electoral Registration.
The
following services will be offered:
-Electoral Registration (free of charge)
-Passports:
Cost $70 USD. Ecuadorian citizens must show their ID (cédula de ciudadanía) or
birth certificate, previous passport and copies of the said documents. They
must obtain a pre-paid envelope from Federal Express, UPS, o US postal service,
with their address in order to have their passport sent to their home
address.
-Birth
certificates: $2.00 USD each.
WHEN:
SATURDAY MAY 4TH, 2013 FROM 11:00 AM TO 3:00 PM
WHERE:
THE CHURCH OF SAINT MARY'S. IGLESIA CATOLICA SANTA MARIA. Centro Parroquial
Oscar Romero. 207 N. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
Phone:
217-352-8364
For
more information contact the Ecuadorian Consulate at:
312-338 1002/ 312-338-1003
Email: cecuchicago@mmrree.gob.ec.
TWITTER:@CecuChicago.
FACEBOOK: Consulado Ecuador-Chicago
Email: cecuchicago@mmrree.gob.ec.
TWITTER:@CecuChicago.
FACEBOOK: Consulado Ecuador-Chicago
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4th ANNUAL FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 | The Art Theater in Downtown Champaign
Doors open & red carpet walk at 6:30pm | Screening at 7pm!
Join
us for the 4th Annual Feminist Film Festival, a grassroots event that utilizes
art and alternative media to bring social issues into the fore by showcasing
short films from undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The goal of the festival is to
showcase independent film spanning documentary, narrative, and experimental
genres in order to explore perspectives often missing from mainstream media and
culture. This year's fest promises to be better than ever--with a
huge line-up of excellent student-made short films that are challenging,
unique, and locally-grown. Free and open to the pubic! No advanced tickets
necessary. Fliers are attached!
Facebook
event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/119455264918693/?fref=ts
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IN THE NEWS
- No Consensus on Judicial Reforms in Argentina http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/no-consensus-on-judicial-reforms-in-argentine-congress/
- Colombia tops IDMC internally displaced people list http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22341119
- Venezuela to audit votes without opposition conditions http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22333705
- Chile: polémica en coalición de Gobierno pone en duda elecciones primarias http://www.infolatam.com/2013/04/28/chile-polemica-en-coalicion-de-gobierno-pone-en-duda-elecciones-primarias/
- Las mafias se infiltran en albergues para inmigrantes centroamericanos http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/04/27/actualidad/1367092067_827354.html
- Brasil: Congresso e Supremo estão em crise por criação de polêmico projeto de lei http://www.infolatam.com.br/2013/04/29/brasil-congresso-e-supremo-estao-em-crise-por-criacao-de-polemico-projeto-de-lei/
- A Cuban Spring? http://nacla.org/news/2013/4/29/cuban-spring
- Mark Weisbrot: EE.UU. busca deshacerse de los Gobiernos de izquierda de América Latina http://www.adital.com.br/site/noticia.asp?lang=ES&cod=74955
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Angelina
Cotler, Ph.D.
Associate
Director
Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Lemann
Institute for Brazilian Studies
University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
201
International Studies Building
910
S. Fifth Street
Champaign,
IL 61820
Ph:
(217) 333-8419
Fax:
(217): 244-7333