Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

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This paper reflects on the legal classification of the “war on drugs” in Mexico from the perspective of international humanitarian law, which regulates international and non-international armed conflicts. Following an overview of different aspects of this conflict, I discuss the legal feasibility of acknowledging the ongoing violence in Mexico as a non-international armed conflict, and demanding the corresponding measures of International Humanitarian Law.

The article focuses on bi-regional relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean within the framework of European foreign policy. Its basic objective is to examine the evolution of the fundamental “three pillars” around which these relations have been articulated: political dialogue, cooperation and trade—in a more or less broad sense—since 1999, in which the “Strategic Association” was formed, which channels bi-regional relations. The central interpretative hypothesis of the work is that Latin America has not been a priority in the framework of the foreign policy of the European Union. Relations have been maintained with a degree of asymmetry and, although progress has been made on some relevant issues, it is argued that none of the “three pillars” have seen substantial results, neither from the point of view of the development and improvement of economic, social and political conditions in Latin America, nor from that of European influence in the region. It is argued that in EU-LAC relations some issues that are considered key, such as migration, cooperation in education, and external debt management, among others, have been ignored. Finally, it is suggested that EU-LAC relations can and should be deepened and that the Latin American region can be an indispensable strategic ally of the European Union.

In Latin American, local governments, international organizations, and investors are increasingly interested in the renewal and transformation of urban downtown areas. This article explores the Inter-American Development Bank’s participation therein using as a methodology the study of IDB diagnoses and plans for urban-territorial renewal and transformation of San José, Costa Rica, and Panama City. Results demonstrate how multilateral banks support urban-territorial renewal projects that encourage investment, as an expression of neoliberal urbanism.

Nature’s system evolves simultaneously to human political systems, generating over time alternative systemic models. Studying situated natural behavior allows us to territorialize artistic practice and produce communal authorship. In order to understand this mode of production, in this article we discuss the project “Wild Herbarium of South America in Times of Neoliberalism.” We deconstruct the work processes to understand their structure and the organization of transdisciplinary collaboration. Summarizing, we study how community authorship displays complex systems whose nodes can be placed in a territory and adapted to the flow of ideological constructions.

This article describes an artistic experimentation and research project that is an act of resistance in the face of hegemonic ways of producing knowledge. It involves a transdisciplinary research methodology of coordination between the arts and the social sciences for the study and production of meaning in urban space. This methodology aims to encompass, within an artistic practice, the study of urban space, as well as the act of inhabiting and transforming it in relation to the subjective-affective dimension of the citizen and cultural imaginaries. Walking through its routes, the city is situated and modified by the same technique that built it: The act of re-appropriating the city consists of physically and imaginatively re-founding it. Thus, the concept of urban psycho-phagy specifically alludes to a participatory, embodied devouring and digesting, that becomes emotional and psycho-geographic.

Latin American technological art generates debates and discussions around categories such as “mestizo” or “hybrid” that arise from the overlap between the importance of technology and “situated practices.” The discourses of techno-culture, and the framework in which these productions take place, lead to reconsideration from local artists, for whom the techno-scientific centrality is a motive of friction and requires critical dismantling. In this article, I examine some techno-artistic projects in Latin America that provide a decolonial view of the ongoing dialogue between art and technology.

The arrival of the order of Santo Domingo in Ciudad Real in 1545, today San Cristóbal de Las Casas, marked an important moment in the history of the province of Chiapa. During the colonial period, one of the Church’s constant concerns was the administration of important tenets for the Christianization of the Indians.

The theme of cancer is explored in this article, drawing from the authorial experience of two Mexican poets, Margarita Paz Paredes in Memorias de hospital (1980) and Rocío González in Neurología 211 (2013). Themes of the body, memory, illness, and medical-surgical treatment are grounded in writings of the self that illustrate the limits of the life/death duality. Writing is the way the poets confront their situation as vulnerable patients who recount their pain with poetry as their only medium. Writing, pain, and illness are an indispensable triad that underpins a testimony of their relationship with a feared illness in a time-space in which both poets confront adverse realities through their final books of poetry.