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

This article deals with the problem of terrorism in Africa. It parts from thebackground of this phenomenon in the continent, and then it presents twocase studies, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia and the group BokoHaram in Nigeria. The aim of this article is to analyze the efficacy of theAfrican Union in the fight against terrorism, starting from the its actions inthe two case studies, and it seeks to demonstrate the high incidence of extraregionalactors in the continent.

In his novel, The savage detectives, Roberto Bolaño invites us to walkthroughthe history of terror experienced after the establishment of a series of dictatorshipsand totalitarian governments during the sixties and seventies in the LatinAmerican region. Through a series of historical facts fictionalized by a movementof Latin Ameican strident poets, the author lets us glimpse, as if it were aregional radiography, a whole series of scenarios ranging from repression andstate terrorism, to the exile, patriarchy, the search for a Latin American poeticidentity, among others. This article seeks to establish a relationship betweenthese fictional facts and the Latin American historical reality.

The Costa Rican press has for many years addressed indigenous issues in adistorted way. They assume a vision as if the Costa Rican natives were notpart of the country and their realities did not exist and, when approached, theyfocus the protagonism on the non-indigenous. This paper clearly shows andanalyzes that distorted view that is created from the journalistic approachesin the national printed and digital media of greater reach in Costa Rica.

In this article, the author analizes the situation of the Afro-Costa Rican identityin the Calypso, as a musical expression of the culture in the Province ofLimon in the Caribbean part of Costa Rica.

The purpose of this article is to summarize Rafael Correa’s thoughts towardsthe freedom of the press. It analizes twenty interviews that were made by differentmeans of communication. Beggining with the main topic some othertopics are chosen; Mr. Correa’s arguments are presented and the reaction ofthe journalists and reporters towards his point of view is shown. The articlepoints that the great media has become a political actor that has turned informationinto a commodity. In order to guarantee the freedom of the press,it posed that mass media companies should be public and supervised civilsociety. It proposes the creation of new laws to guarantee the independence,plurality, and democracy of the media.

Word is the structure of the universe. The word resolves its creative quality fromthe abstract. Being able to elevate the comprehension of meanings to concretemeanings involves dispelling the elementary root of those moments in which oralitysneaks into memory through various ways of hereditary transmission. Knowin the word; its anteversion in myth or legend is essential to recognize the rolesof memory in identity. The article weaves together the threads of the relationshipbetween myth-imagination-expression-language-memory-identity and Word.

Thinking of education requires an exercise of epistemological surveillance thatallows visualizing the complex gear existing among the historical processes ofhuman evolution, where organizational models are brought about to seek thedevelopment or wellbeing of individuals, besides increasingly evident trendsin which knowledge is subordinated to institutionalism. In this regard, it isimportant to review some general features of education that are typical of thewestern world –with an emphasis on the Costa Rican scenario- and that allowestablishing a dialogue between stages such as colonization and modernity –for example-, and the creation of educational models that replicate the modusoperandi of the economic system, leading to a landscape that does not matchthe principles of a search for overall wellbeing and respect for the diversity ofhuman thought under a framework of the ethical and philosophical structure ofeducation as a fundamental right of every human being.

This argumentative essay proposes a comparative analysis among the "TheFool of the Riddles" tale from My Aunt Panchita written by Carmen Lyra,and "The Fortune Teller" by Alejandro Afanasyev. Analysis of archetypes isexposed like the stages of the hero's journey, numerology, and nicknames ofcharacters. As conclusions, it is determined that in the Costa Rican collectivememory, this story has not been one of the most representative becausethis paradigm has mainly permeated through Christianity. Besides, there is asubstantial differentiation in the stages of the hero's journey, the departure,the initiation, and the return, in comparison to the experiences of femalecharacters in other stories by the same Costa Rican author.

Within the accelerated religious transformations that have been observedin Western societies during the last decades, in Latin America there is aninteresting phenomenon in the Catholic Church as is that of the so-callednon-practicing Catholics, a term in itself ambiguous and debatable, butwhose phenomenon to which it refers has an important impact on theChurch, due to the decrease in the number of faithful who are actively involvedin religious life. In this article we reflect and discuss various aspectsof the present situation, from a Catholic theological perspective, seekingto identify what could be a sign of the times, and a historic opportunity forthe Catholic Church and Theology to deepen the renewal since the SecondVatican Ecumenical Council.