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Óscar Correas is undoubtedly a key figure in Latin American Marxist Critical Legal Theory as a cornerstone of critical legal thought and one of the founders of the “Latin American Critical Legal Theory” [Crítica Jurídica Latinoamericana or CJL] movement. His training as a jurist allowed him to posit legal questions and theories that were fundamental to understandings of reality, overcoming narrow visions of law that had been popularized in social sciences. Correas’ thought underwent changes over the course of new readings and evolving sociopolitical conditions—the crisis of the prevailing Stalinism in the Soviet Union and the irruption of the indigenous movement in México in the form of the Zapatista Liberation Army uprising, to mention two paradigmatic examples—. It should be no surprise that, in the 1990s, Correas would critique and debate the Marxism of Pashukanis. In this sense, I propose the hypothesis of the existence of a “First Correas” and a “Second Correas.” The first, aligned with the Marxism of the critique of political economy (this from the 1970s to the late 1980s), and the second, with a markedly linguistic turn, embracing skepticism, although he never completely abandons Marx’s position (this from the 1990s to until his death in 2020).

How do Big Tech platforms affect the exercise of fundamental rights? What can the States do, in the context of their sovereignty, to moderate these actors’ powers? What has been explored in the context of Mexico? This article discusses how Big Tech platforms, such as Facebook and Google, may impact our collective lives and democracy. It highlights the legal implications of access to information and freedom of expression. This research provides an overall legal framework on this issue, to later place in context the Mexican draft bill introduced in 2021 to regulate platforms’ content moderation practices, analyzing its flaws and areas of improvement, and suggesting specific elements for further legal discussion to prevent abuse of power from these companies within the Latin American and Mexican context. A comparative legal methodology is used, resorting to elements of American and European Law, to later discuss the Mexican legal framework.

“The Strip-Route Initiative” strategically connects three continents, which form a closed circuit of land and sea, called “China Pearl Necklace”.  The objective of this work is to analyze and publicize the logistic competitiveness of twelve ports that make up this Collar;  for which, four sub-indices of logistic performance (LPI) were applied, which have been developed by the World Bank, and which aim to assess both the competitiveness, and the quality of logistics services, as well as prices and delivery times. These indices showed the potential and competitive importance of the ports of Greece and Qatar. Thus, this work is based on the assumption that the existing infrastructure in the ports that make up China’s pearl necklace generates logistical competitiveness and international presence.

This article analyzes the repertoires of action, links, collective identities, and pressure strategies displayed by South Korean social organizations for humanitarian aid, defectors assistance, and political human rights. This work states that the “North Korean” political activism networks have a high level of incidence in inter-Korean relations and normative changes surrounding unification. Furthermore, Human Rights as a collective identity of these networks favor cooperation between the Koreas when the identity process is rooted in local dynamics and official inter-Korean policies, while on the other hand, they tend to challenge the national agenda when social actors have greater interactions in international human rights networks. This re-search is based on a qualitative study of integrated cases constructed upon institutional materials, analysis of social networks and, interviews with members of South Korean NGOs.

This article examines the short story “Manos de diamante” by Andrés Felipe Solano, pointing out the dialogue constructed between an autobiographical narrator and the concept of decadence of the Japanese school of the buraiha, which constitute a oneself-writing in confrontation with the modernity signs of our time. First, the trajectory and historical context of the buraiha writers are reviewed to understand, in a second moment, how the Colombian author configures an unstable reader-writer pact in the story that moves between a buraiha-style fiction and the chronicle of the author-narrator’s existential drift. Finally, it is ex-posed how these elements of the autofiction genre allow the story to reveal the self-disintegration and the loss of identity in our present times.