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

The historic combat developed in San Pedro, on December 7, 1896, one of the most controversial in Cuban military history against Spanish rule due to the numerous versions that were given of it, had a fatal outcome because of the loss of Major General Antonio Maceo Grajales and his exemplary assistant Panchito Gómez Toro. About how the death of Maceo and Panchito happened, their versions, the evolution of the place and its subsequent transformations until today, deepens the present essay. Highlighting its importance as a historical site and relevance as a National Monument. In addition to reflecting the signage of the land to the present, stopping at the main projects designed to perpetuate it for the new Cuban generations.

This paper exposes Saint Joseph representations on different art pieces of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica, including artworks in churches where people pay special devotion to him, and other places where his figure is merely decorative.  In this way, the article is a theoretical and methodological effort, looking to understand Saint Joseph iconography through Cristianity history in Costa Rican territory. For this reason, it does an overall reading of about 155 art pieces, between sculptures, stained glass and paintings, representing the religious character as the main topic, or as a secondary role in the artistic composition.

In this profile, a poetic corpus by José Carlos Becerra is presented. The selection of poems from the Mexican poet was made by Macarena Barahona Riera, the texts are taken from the book Poesía joven de México (1967) by Alejandro Aura, Leopoldo Ayala, José Carlos Becerra and Raúl Garduño, Editorial Siglo XXI. pp. 71-75.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate historically the use, importation and first production of mosaics for floors and walls in the city of San José, in the period between 1880 and 1905; known as urban modernization of San José. By then, the wealth generated by the cultivation and export of coffee to international markets allowed, like other Latin American cities, the capital of Costa Rica to be urbanistically modernized, so that San José’s  upper and middle strata changed their consumption patterns accordingly. This was expressed directly in public and residential architecture, works in which, along with the architectural languages ​​and construction techniques, the design of the internal space also experimented notable changes. The most notorious change was the introduction of Victorian design mosaics on the floors and walls of certain rooms. For that reason, this essay investigates the evolution of importation, first, and then the production of mosaics in Costa Rica:  showing different techniques that were used traditionally, as terracotta, ceramics and hydraulic cement.

Half a century ago, in December 1972, came into light an account titled History of Biology in Costa Rica, by the eminent botanist Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero. It corresponded to the written version of a lecture delivered for a seminar at the Centro Universitario Regional de San Ramón, University of Costa Rica. Thus far it has remained unknown since it was initially published as a booklet that was not widely disseminated. Nevertheless, it is of great value, as it represents the first synthesis about the history of biology in Costa Rica. Therefore, herewith it is rescued and transcribed in full, in addition to interpreting various aspects of its content through footnotes and including some pertinent illustrations.

On April 28, 2022, the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), mounted the exhibition entitled: University, culture and freedom. Posters and covers of Valeria Varas, which was replicated on September 12, 2022 (without the covers), at the School of General Studies of the UCR, in recognition of the solidarity work that the designer carried out in the 80s, in Costa Rica, in favor of human rights protection in Central America.

Historically, the audiobook is a type of media that requires recording the reading of a text aloud that can be reproduced in order for it to be mediated. However, what happens when this “reading” is done by Artificial Intelligence in real-time, instantaneously, such as by means of a virtual assistant like Alexa? Can this mediation be seen as an audiobook? With the view that this question is an issue that emerges with the new relations among digital media, the aim of this article is to define what kind of phenomenon this is. Hence, we use Intermediality Studies based on the models proposed by Lars Elleström (2021) and other authors who help us fill in and develop specific gaps in the theory, to find the needed support for this analysis. To expand our discussion, the example used was the e-book and audiobook of The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, to compare the reading done by a human being and the “reading” done by Artificial Intelligence. Based on our analysis, the conclusion is that the “reading” carried out by Alexa is in fact an "oralization" (BAJARD, 2014), corresponding to a process of audio decoding of words. Thus, compared to an audiobook read by a human, the result of a transmediation, Alexa’s decoding is a “re-mediation”. In other words, it is a re-exhibition of the material, spatial-temporal, sensorial, and potentially semiotic modalities of an e-book by means of a different technical media of display

The text presented here is a reflection that starts from the analysis of a picture book edited with a pre-reader in mind, The quilt. A story in panels (Martins & Kono 2010), in which the topic of reading objects will benefit the initiation to literary reading. Responding to the theme of this dossier, the cultural space in which the public library has the mission to build itself and which, not uniformly, it practices as a space of conviviality between people and books, in which these are simultaneously steppingstones and targets, has changed during the two periods of confinement between 2020 and 2021. The contact with the book as a manipulable object that facilitates the approach to the act of reading, in line with the visual language that the architecture of children's books contemplates with special care, seems to have forced a return to the ear as the first sense for these pre-readers. Our reading of this children's book is a sample exercise which may be replicated in sessions that meet the methodologies of the Public Humanities, in which, by not being distracted by what the literary text evokes or suggests, it will make us return to it to focus on the level that interests us. In this case, it was the attention given to stories about several absences which objects bring with them and which the reading of literature makes present, even in the absence of the book

The terrorist attacks on the headquarters of the Three Powers of the Republic of Brazil, in the Federal Capital, on January 8, 2023, took place in the contingency of vertiginous mediatization. This article investigates connections between fake news about the 2022 electoral process and the occurrence of coup acts. In this sense, along with the Comprova Project, of journalistic verification of messages that go viral in the cyberterritories of social media, an effort was made to identify the context of disinformation related to the last electoral process, in order to verify the hypothesis that there is a relationship between the dissemination of false news and the terrorist attacks, guided by the refusal of the results of the presidential elections, with an illegal claim to a coup d'état. As verified, between October 1st and December 17th, there were 110 fake news with 100,624,032 engagements, with accusations of fraud, attacks on the Superior Electoral Court and the Federal Supreme Court, etc. With theoretical-conceptual support from the fields of social communication and psychoanalysis, in particular, the premise was also confirmed that fake news compose a strategy of "instrumental power", of "behavioral engineering", for the dissemination of obscurantism and the formation of extremist masses