Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

Abstract: The present paper tries to analyze the media discourse used by the newspapers La Nación, Universidad, Libertad and Eco Católico during the years 1982 and 1986. In order to identify the strategies used not only to present potential enemies, external and internal, of the Costa Rican democracy, but also the conceptions that the newspapers had about the type of ideal democracy that should exist in Costa Rica.

The objective of this article is to visualize the philosophical, theological and political positions of one of the greatest thinkers of the political left of the Hispano-American world, Fernando Ignacio Ellacuría. He wrote most of his writings from a focus committed to social justice, human solidarity and compassion for the most excluded and marginalized of society during the last stage of the Cold War. In the midst of the strong political violence that was lived in Central America between the guerrilla struggles of the socialist left and the conservative political movements that relied on authoritarian regimes and violators of Human Rights, Ellacuría was positioned as one of the great intellectuals of the Theology of Liberation and was killed for staying loyal to their cause.

This article describes the construction and development of an elemental local power structure in the canton of Tarrazú (population located on a colonization front southeast of the Costa Rican Central Valley) between 1871 and 1925. It is, first of all, characterize family alliances at the dawn of the colonization process, when migrants from the Central Valley recently occupied the land. On the other hand, it will be necessary to specify the mechanisms and strategies used to solve different needs that overwhelmed the different towns on issues such as communication channels and infrastructure construction. Finally, it concludes with the analysis of the different initiatives promoted in search of cantonal segregation.

One of the main justifications used by the United Fruit Company to legitimize its entry and stay in the Central American region was the arrival of the science and technology brought by it. In that sense, it is important to study the way in which the transnational managed to consolidate that representation in both the American and Central American publics. Likewise, the history of the company and its representation of science and technology are also the continuity of a construction that developed the confrontation between nature and science in American history. It is based on the case study of the Golfito division, to explain the means used by the transnational to legitimize and build that representation.

                                                                                                                                     Abstract: The need for a dialogue between the human being and the environment , in the middle of the 21st century , acquires a relevance as it may not have had it, insofar as the discourse of imposition that has been hat must be left aside first in relation to the second, that is, we must discard the idea of  a domain that, far from benefiting us, has begun, and it is the latent reality and not only literary, to show the first symptoms of a decadent society, incapable of control the “natural” phenomena that he himself has caused. In this text, the allusion to dance and forest dance is, rather, a recognition, a call to what represents a different relationship with the world, with the environment, with the universe. Humanism enables and allows us to assume the notion of a space of vital dialogue, essential, and a approach between the human being and the environment, so that the depredation comes to an end and there is, finally, a true symbiosis between the human being and the nature that, far from belonging to him, carries it with him as part of his being. It is the relationship of the child, his grandfather, and those with whom they enter into dialogue.    

In the middle of the city, the park is always a vital reference when it comes to defending the idea of a “natural lung”, a breather, meeting place, chat, cultural events, flora and fauna, rest. Therefore, this text raises the fact that the park deserves recognition, the tribute that, as an isolated place and the same time, a step and a must, represents for the people and communities in general. It is a space of distraction and reflection  of gathering at which the different  social classes come, the winners and the defeated, the visitors and the natives, the occasional  and the social referents. A micro universe where, chatter and Humanism weave and unravel dialogues permanently. It is more than a referential universe in the villages: it is the meeting of discourses, of art, of the human…of life.

The monstrosity is one of the issues that has addressed the literature, although in the Costa Rican events little has been theorized regarding this. The legends in our country have had an important foothold, so having the possibility to address the emergence or appearance of the monster from the perspective of these tries to become one of the first approaches that, with respect to this, aims the discussion or boarding of this article. The monstrous as a supernatural manifestation, to the margin of the moral, attached or not, to this discursive approach.  

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the exaggerations that Arabic sources contain concerning the treasures captured from the submitted peoples. To the exaggerated treasures obtained by Tariq bn Ziyad’s armies in the Iberian peninsula, is added the ma’ida Sulayman (Solomon’s table), famous not only because of its wealth, but also because it played a major role, according to the legend, or the historical reality, during the submission of an account of the activities of Tariq bn Ziyad and Musa Ibn Nusayr to the caliph in Damascus. This paper also analyzes the problem of Arabic sources dealing with the trip of the conquerors of al-Andalus to Damascus. In the first place even who the caliph was at the time when they received the order to go to Damascus is open to debate. Secondly, who the Amir al-Mu’minin was who heard their account of their activities in the conquest of al-Andalus. In the third place who the caliph was who punished them remains unclear. Arabic sources even contain different information concerning the types of punishments meted out to the Muslim conquerors of Iberia. Concerning these issues the legends are abundant, as well as the historical accounts. This paper also deals with these issues. The major thread for the explanations of these events is the analysis of the legends and the historical accounts.

The article seeks to offer a general overview of the way in which Holy Week was celebrated in the nineteenth century in Costa Rica, with emphasis in two particular moments; namely, mid and late of that century. For the first case, it is a set of stories and descriptions of European and North American travelers who traveled through Central American lands. Each of them left notes on the relief, fauna, flora and customs of the local populations. These sources have allowed to reconstruct, from the perspective of the traveling philanthropist, the religious traditions that were kept for "Easter week". For the analysis of the commemorations of Holy Week at the end of the 19th century, the written press was used. The emergence of the "diarism"; which is the regular publication of newspapers, towards the middle of the decade of 1880, constituted a valuable input for the dissemination of chronicles and reports on religiosity and institutionalized customs about Holy Week. The review of announcements and news notices in the immediately periods prior to the arrival of the Catholic solemnities, provides an accurate picture of the liturgical act that took place in the Josephine’s temples of that time. The Costa Rica of the late liberal century is a unique combination of tradition and modernity, where it is possible to appreciate the presence of rituals of colonial origin with traits of modernity, associated with the arrival of capitalism in the central valley. Therefore, it is not strange the survival of liturgical ceremonies full of protocol, mixed with the presence of multiple commercial announcements, which promote the sale of clothes, attire, accessories and allegorical meals of Holy Week.

This article is about  the main findings of a research carried out in the first semester of 2017 with two groups of students who studied General Studies at the Rodrigo Facio Campus of the University of Costa Rica. The objectives of the study were: 1) To identify the knowledge that first-graders have about General Studies 2) To distinguish the main obstacles in the process of adaptation of the  university  with respect to General Studies 3) To determine the difficulties that have had the first income students with the course of Philosophy and Thought of the Integrated Humanities  I, and 4) Recognize which methodological strategies were used in the subject of Philosophy and Thought that were functional for first income students. The students concluded from their experiences in the classroom that the importance of General Studies are in their formative and educational value.