América Latina Hoy

Measuring the Reversal of the Displacement of the Ckunza Language of San Pedro de Atacama: a First Approximation

Elizabeth Mónica Torrico Ávila — 2024-04-18

The Ckunza language of the Chilean Lickan Antai is regarded as extinct. This community has worked on its revival since 2010. This descriptive-quantitative study explores the knowledge and use of the language among the members of the Atacamenean community. The results reveal an emerging reversal of the displacement of the Ckunza language. This article contributes to support the struggle for language revitalisation by supporting language planning as well as research in this field.

Structure and Conjuncture: Policies and Income Inequality in Argentina and Colombia in Times of COVID-19

Lucía Trujillo-Salazar — 2024-04-12

This article examines, from a comparative perspective between Argentina and Colombia, the interactions between the structure, public policies, and their incidence on the inequality of the different sources of household income, both before and during the crisis generated by the COVID-19 virus and in the recovery phase. The results show that, during the crisis, the governments of Argentina and Colombia implemented broadly similar income policies. However, it became evident that the structure of the labor markets and the previous institutional framework of social protection, in conjunction with the specificity of the design of the policies implemented in each country, reinforced and conditioned the distributive dynamics in different magnitudes. The regressive impact of labor income is underscored, along with the compensatory function of cash transfers in non-labor income, albeit with nuanced differences observed between the two countries.

The Focus of Foreign Trade Policy and its Impact on Bolivian Exports after Joining the Multilateral Trade System

Jose Jaime Baena Rojas — 2024-02-07

This article aims to characterize Bolivia’s foreign trade, specifically in the case of exports. This is because after Bolivia’s entry into the Multilateral Trade System, measures have been adopted that have shaped the evolution of the trade policy of this Andean country. In particular, the main export products, the participation of each department in their production, the historical behavior of exports, and their impact on world trade, among other aspects, are analyzed.

#FuimosTodas. Counter-Discursive Voices of the Mexican Feminist Movement

Narcisa Sinche Morocho — 2024-02-07

In this paper, we analyze the hashtag #FuimosTodas, the conditions in which it was created, its resignification in the environment of a conflict between the feminist movement and the Mexican State, and also its implications. We focus on the way the hashtag, in addition to establishing itself as a powerful symbolic instrument for feminism due to its capacity to articulate a political subjectivity, it acts as a catalyst for a popular will that condenses different experiences and meanings.

How to study memory policies?

Cinthia Balé — 2024-02-07

This paper reflects on the epistemological and methodological challenges entailed by the study of state-sponsored memory policies. In light of the Argentine case, we focus our attention on three main issues: how to understand the processes of institutionalization of demands referring to the past? In what manner should we conceptualize those who, from within state agencies, produce memory policies on a daily basis? How to comprehend the effect of «officiality» that defines memories constructed by state agencies?