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En las siguientes páginas invitamos a los lectores a volver a la década de 1950 en Guatemala. Octubre, el mes revolucionario por excelencia, es también el mes aniversario de la Revolución Guatemalteca que derrocó a la tiranía en 1944 e instauró por primera vez una democracia en el país.

La asistencia "para el desarrollo" ocupó un importante rol en la política exterior de Estados Unidos hacia América Latina, especialmente a partir de la revolución cubana. Estos programas promovidos por el sector privado y el gobierno estadounidenses, respondían a intereses muy concretos pocas veces mencionados a nivel de discurso oficial. En este artículo se indagará en los posibles intereses vinculados a la asistencia, así como en la articulación entre la asistencia económica y la asistencia para la "seguridad", haciendo un recorrido en el rol de la asistencia desde la guerra fría hasta la actualidad. Para ello se retoman documentos desclasificados del Departamento de Estado, el Boletín del Departamento de Estado, documentación oficial (estadísticas y programas) y declaraciones de funcionarios de Estados Unidos y América Latina. ; Assistance "for development" occupied an important role in U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, especially since the Cuban revolution. These programs promoted by the private sector and the U.S. government, responding to specific interests seldom mentioned level of official discourse. This article will explore the possible interest linked to attendance, as well as the link between economic assistance and support for the "safety", doing a tour in the role of care from the Cold War to the present. This takes up declassified State Department, the Department of State Bulletin, official documentation (statistics and programs) and statements by officials of the United States and Latin America.

The antiterrorist policy of the George W. Bush Administration established a relationship between democracy and security that implied the limitation of the former as a necessary condition for the achievement of the latter. This strategy led to the diminishing of the basic liberties promoted by liberal democracy through legal means with the putative objective of guaranteeing the 'security' of American citizens. A key starting point of these policies can be found in undercover operations carried out abroad by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of State at the beginning of the Cold War. This article focuses on the continuities and ruptures between the official discourse of the G. W. Bush Administration and that of the first years of the Cold War, focusing on the realist and liberal patterns present in those discourses. This leads to an analysis of the relationship between democracy and national security under the antiterrorist policy implemented by the G. W. Bush government, approached from a power elite perspective. The aggressive foreign and homeland policies of the US government were based upon a booming military–industrial pole, closely bound to free market expansionism and liberal democracy as key dimensions in the reproduction of capitalism. Included in this consideration are the 2002 and 2006 National Security Strategies, the Patriot Act (2001), and the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (2003) (or 'Patriot Act II') put in place by the G.W. Bush Administration, as well as the National Security Strategy (2009) established by President Obama.

A review of mass media response to the smoking issue over the past 25 years reveals that sustained involvement of the broadcast and print media has served significantly to heighten public awareness and reduce smoking rates in the total U.S. population. Public service advertising has been an integral part of the smoking control movement from its outset, but today's intensely competitive media environment has forced health promoters to look beyond public service announcements in the development of total communication programs. Media advocacy--using the media to sharpen public awareness and mold public policy to serve the public interest, a technique derived from political campaigns--is emerging as a powerful tool in the smoking control movement. Its emphasis is on changing the entire social context of tobacco use in America, rather than the smoking behavior of people. Because media advocates' success pivots on their access to the media, they must be able both to create news and to react quickly to breaking news and unexpected events. The opportunistic, risk-taking nature of media advocacy requires that most efforts be waged at the State and local levels. An increasing number of State health departments and other organizations are using paid advertising to improve the frequency and reach of nonsmoking messages. Research verifies that paid media campaigns increase the target audience's exposure to smoking control messages, but planning and making efficient media purchases require sophistication and, of course, the necessary funds. Irrefutable medical evidence linking smoking to disease and addiction, combined with the powerful social force of the nonsmokers' rights movement, offer hope that a smoke-free society is an achievable goal.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)