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The degree conferred upon me by the University of America with the concurrence of the 24 universities of the Republic of Colombia is a powerful incentive to the work of the Inter-American Development Bank in the field of higher education and research in Latin America. You will forgive me, then, if I take this occasion to mention the role of the Inter-American Bank as the "Bank of the Latin American University," a role which has placed it in the vanguard of an impressive process of international cooperation for the modernization and decisive expansion of higher education in the Hemisphere. The $55 million it has loaned to 71 institutions in 17 countries bear eloquent testimony to an abiding preoccupation of the Bank in its brief years of existence.

Abstract
This article focuses on Latin American constitutionalism with two goals in mind. The first goal is to identify narratives of constitutional mixity or hybridity that have been influential in Latin America, something that habilitates a comparative analysis with references to mixed or hybrid constitutionalism in other scenarios. One narrative underlines the combination of U.S.-inspired constitutionalism with background civil law systems. Another narrative highlights the way classic regional constitutional designs feature a liberal-conservative hybridation that, some claim, continue to influence constitutional dynamics up to this day. And the third narrative is associated with the establishment in regional countries of hybrid or mixed systems of judicial review. The second goal of the article, more methodological in kind, is to explore what do Latin American narratives on mixity teach in the way to clarifying the nature and implications of exercises constitutional taxonomy. As it emerges, constitutional taxonomy is a way of organizing and generating knowledge which is useful to describe, but most meaningful when addressed to provide an explanation, which is often just an antechamber to normative evaluation. Whether a particular exercise of constitutional taxonomy makes sense in a particular scenario, however, is a different matter, and the article suggests that describing, explaining and evaluating Latin American constitutions as hybrid is illuminating but also problematic in a number of ways.

The number of independent voters in America increases each year, yet they remain misunderstood by both media and academics. Media describe independents as pivotal for electoral outcomes. Political scientists conclude that independents are merely 'undercover partisans': people who secretly hold partisan beliefs and are thus politically inconsequential. Both the pundits and the political scientists are wrong, argue the authors. They show that many Americans are becoming embarrassed of their political party. They deny to pollsters, party activists, friends, and even themselves, their true partisanship, instead choosing to go 'undercover' as independents. Independent Politics demonstrates that people intentionally mask their partisan preferences in social situations. Most importantly, breaking with decades of previous research, it argues that independents are highly politically consequential. The same motivations that lead people to identify as independent also diminish their willingness to engage in the types of political action that sustain the grassroots movements of American politics

The procedural law deserves to be rethought to the beat of the new winds that regenerate the juridicity, thus, overcoming the involution state in which it is, aiming to refurbish the main pillars from the new concepts. If the changes are not assimilated, the black clouds that stretch over it, will not be overcome. A constant for Latin America has been the construction of poor models, usually not encompassing the problem of the legal orb. The only way to overcome this state of permanent regression is to conduct a thorough study of the causes that prevent from getting out of the darkness, generated by inefficient procedural models that do not provide satisfaction and well-being in the community where they are established. This reflection article will try to describe where the drawbacks arise from. ; El derecho procesal merece ser replanteado al compás de los nuevos vientos que resoplan la juridicidad, así, superar el estado de involución en que se encuentra, aspirando a reacondicionar sus pilares principales a partir de nuevos conceptos. De no asimilar los cambios, los nubarrones que se ciñen sobre el mismo, no serán superados. Una constante para Latinoamérica ha sido la construcción de deficientes modelos, generalmente no englobantes de la problemática del orbe jurídico. La única manera de superar dicho estadio de regresión permanente, consiste en realizar un estudio exhaustivo de las causales que impiden salir de la penumbra, generadas por modelos procesales ineficientes que no presupongan dar satisfacción y bienestar a la comunidad donde se implantan. Este artículo de reflexión, proyectará describir de donde surgen los inconvenientes

"The author argues that a demand for public solutions during smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth century, especially broad access to inoculation, influenced revolutionary politics and changed the way that Americans understood their health and governmental responsibilities to protect it"--

The revolutions in Latin America have been structured through an untold manifesto that takes the figures of the hero, victim and victimizer within common ideas that developed around the end of history. This article presents reality within a monopolized discourse, which plays with some Marxist vocabulary, while it evokes a political messiah, the savior, the revolutionist. The main objective of this writing is to understand the Latin America revolutions' manifesto presented in a common discursive. At the end, we point out the little regional development of proposals that try to fill the concept of revolution with new thought. This writing is based on four historical events, namely: the Mexican Revolution, which begun in 1910; the Bolivian Revolution of April 1952; the Cuban Revolution, early 1959; and the Nicaraguan Revolution of the late 1970s ; Las revoluciones en América Latina se han estructurado a través de un manifiesto inédito que toma las figuras del héroe, la víctima y el victimario dentro de ideas comunes que se desarrollaron alrededor del final de la historia. Este artículo presenta la realidad dentro de un discurso monopolizado, que juega con cierto vocabulario marxista, mientras evoca un mesías político, el salvador, el revolucionario. El objetivo principal de este escrito es comprender el manifiesto de las revoluciones latinoamericanas presentado en un discursivo común. Al final, señalamos el pequeño desarrollo regional de propuestas que intentan llenar el concepto de revolución con un nuevo pensamiento. Este escrito se basa en cuatro eventos históricos, a saber: la revolución mexicana, que comenzó en 1910; la revolución boliviana de abril de 1952; la revolución cubana, principios de 1959; y la revolución nicaragüense de finales de los años setenta. ; Universidad Pablo de Olavide

El passat 23 de maig els Estudis de Dret i Ciència Política vam organitzar una taula rodona sobre l'estat actual de la democràcia a Amèrica Llatina, aprofitant la celebració a Barcelona del Congrés Internacional de la Latin American Studies Association (23-27 maig), que va reunir a més de set mil persones. La taula va comptar amb la participació de tres reconeguts experts sobre política llatinoamericana, i va ser moderada pel professor Mikel Barreda, director del Grau de Relacions Internacionals de la UOC. ; On 23 May 2018, we in the Department of Law and Political Science organised a roundtable discussion on the current state of democracy in Latin America, making the most of the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association being held in Barcelona (23–27 May), which was attended by more than 7,000 people. The roundtable discussion featured three renowned experts on Latin American politics, and was monitored by lecturer Mikel Barreda, Director of the International Relations degree at the UOC. ; El pasado 23 de mayo organizamos, en los Estudios de Derecho y Ciencia Política, una mesa redonda sobre el estado actual de la democracia en América Latina, aprovechando la celebración en Barcelona del Congreso Internacional de la Latin American Studies Association (23-27 mayo), que reunió a más de siete mil personas. La mesa contó con la participación de tres reconocidos expertos sobre política latinoamericana, y estuvo moderada por el profesor Mikel Barreda, director del grado de Relaciones Internacionales de la UOC.