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

This study aims to answer: what are the means of proof used in criminal cases of insider trading in the United States of America (USA)?; Is it possible for these means of proof to be applied in Brazilian criminal actions on the subject?. The concept of the use of privileged information in its criminal facet is established by exposing the controversies on the subject and how it is treated in the national and international literature, as it constitutes a comparative study. Afterwards, the Decision Analysis Methodology is approached as a form of empirical investigation, in order to discuss the probative activity in insider trading crimes. It discusses how the US faces the issue, especially regarding the role of evidence, to bring elements to the Brazilian law enforcer. The approach is qualitative and quantitative, with a literature review and Content Analysis and Decision Analysis Methodologies. The unit of analysis is US criminal cases, in 2019. The following are the means of proof used in these cases: breach of telephone secrecy; confession; testimonies; borrowed evidence; communication with unions; statistical analysis; newspaper articles and conclusions of the company's own Audit Committee. They are evidence, fully, possible of survey and construction by the Brazilian criminal judiciary, so, proposals for improvement are presented.

This article seeks to answer whether a collaboration agreement signed by the police authority after a contrary statement by the Prosecution could be judicially approved. The research was carried out using the deductive method, through a bibliographical review and jurisprudential analysis. The importance of the subject is justified by the expansion of the understanding of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court. In 2018, in ADI 5.508, the Court recognized the constitutionality of Law n. 12.850/2013 providing that the police chief would be one of those legitimated to sign the agreement, having been debated and decided, by a majority among the ministers that despite the legal requirement of manifestation by the Prosecution, this manifestation would not be binding. In 2021, however, in the judgment of AgRg in Pet 8.482, the STF nullified a collaboration agreement signed by the Federal Police, without the consent of the Federal Prosecution’s Office, establishing the need for agreement by the Prosecution for the deal to take effect. To approach the theme, it started with identifying the legal and doctrinal scenario on the thematic focus, then proceeded with a comparative study of the grounds that led the STF to issue both decisions. Afterward, in view of the established theoretical and practical premises, it was considered not possible for the police authority to sign a collaboration agreement with the Prosecution's disagreement, under penalty of emptying the institute, generating legal uncertainty, both for the collaborators and third parties accused.

This article deals with the representation of urban space in television fiction through an approach that, starting from the works around the moving image and its modes of production, incorporates contributions from critical studies on cities. Through a content analysis that involves 10 successful series, the text distinguishes three modulations: one where the city and its meaning are built by appealing to the previous cultural conditions of the place—from historical events and difficult legacies to issues settled by picturesqueness, tourism or popular tradition—; another where the elements and characteristics of the location are exploited, conveniently amplifying, attenuating or retouching its different edges in favor of the story; and a third that appeals directly to the viewer and his background to bring ideas or external realities closer to the work itself and produce a dialogue between texts. It is concluded that the soap operas face the space as a persuasive, functional and aesthetic action that, by making use of their performative practices, turn the city into a landscape that reveals a different and more phenomenological understanding of urban daily life.

This article analyzes the role of cultural memory through the chromatic plastic signs of the Peruvian popular graphic advertisement. The corpus considers the graphic-advertising production that circulates in the public space in downtown Lima, Peru. The qualitative reconstruction of the relationships between memory, space and chromatic plasticity is carried out through the semiotic gaze of a tensive approach, which allows us to appreciate the role of intensity in popular visual production. The reflection concludes in the contrast of the memory of retention of playful colors of the ghost sign versus a memory of functional color ostension of the urban popular graphics. This difference makes it possible to identify economic isotopies that promote the erosion of spatial and political rootedness with respect to the public.

The COVID crisis in 2020 deeply impacted world economy. Peru, which had a booming tourism sector, suffered severely from the fall in international arrivals to its territory. To reactivate local economy, the Municipality of Lima launched, at the end of 2020, a digital magazine called Visita Lima. The aim of this article is to show how a postgreimasian semiotic analysis can provide a critical look at the offering of a brand. In this case, the different digital channels of Visita Lima will be analyzed in order to highlight some strategic issues and to propose solutions to make such an offering more relevant and meaningful.

This article studies the role of the sensationalist popular press during the campaign for the second electoral round carried out in Peru between April and June 2021. For this, the journalistic discourse on the front pages of the newspapers Trome and Ojo is analyzed, which are the two popular newspapers of the largest media conglomerate in the country, the El Comercio Group. The study identifies in the discourse on the covers of Trome and Ojo—whose agendas are traditionally devoted to police news, entertainment and sports—the presence of what Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman (1988/1995) call anti-communist ideology. Through it, they sought to associate candidate Pedro Castillo with “communism” or “chavismo”, and present him as the worst of evils. The discourse of these popular newspapers was oriented to associate their idea of communism with terrorism, violence and hatred, and, at the same time, contrast it with those of democracy, peace and freedom. Furthermore, both Trome and Ojo repeatedly disqualify Pedro Castillo’s economic proposals and associate their own idea of communism with poverty and hunger.

Since the implementation of the first bike paths in Bogotá, Colombia, at the beginning of the 2000s, the bicycle progressively became a mobility alternative to mass transportation. Although road corridors are often a scene of conflict and chaos, they are also places of expression that show the ways of life in the city right where displacements take place. This reflection article seeks to review some videographic expressions that narrate the city from the bicycle tours that are published on YouTube. These creations build values and representations of the city from creativity, play and playfulness; and, in turn, demonstrate narrative and affective appropriations of urban space

The city of São Paulo is known for its large number of immigrants in the past and in the present. These groups produce their presence in the public space, as is the case of Bolivian immigrants. This paper aims to examine some of these enunciative marks to decipher some of the meanings produced by immigrants in urban space. For this, I use the semiotics of Algirdas Julien Greimas and, mainly, the sociosemiotics of Eric Landowski. Thus, I hope to show how alterity is a constitutive part of urban space and think about some consequences of this manifestation of meaning for Brazilian society.

A taxonomic revision of the family Sapindaceae (order Sapindales) in Tunisia is presented. Field surveys were carried out during the last 10 years, allowing to identify 5 taxa of which 2 (Acer monspessulanum subsp. monspessulanum and A. monspessulanum subsp. martinii) are native, whereas the other 3 (A. negundo, Dodonaea viscosa, and Sapindus saponaria) are alien for the Tunisian flora. A. monspessulanum subsp. martinii, A. negundo, and Dodonaea viscosa are new records at national level, with Dodonaea representing a new genus for the Tunisian flora, whereas Sapindus saponaria is new for the whole North Africa. Information about nomenclature (accepted names, main synonyms, and types), morphology, chromosome number, chorology, occurrence in Tunisia, ecology (phenology and habitat), and taxonomic annotations are provided for each taxon, as well as original photos were prepared. Diagnostic keys at species and infraspecific ranks are also given.