Central America

Central America and Mexico

Programme purpose: During the first semester of 2008, the aim of the Regional Representation for Central America and Mexico is to support scaling up the efforts of National Societies in the region to develop and execute programmes in an efficient and integrated way. And so, helping to create resilient communities and a culture of prevention, while spreading the fundamental principles and humani...

Yellow Fever in Central America

Mantle layering across central South America

[1] Imaging of seismic velocity discontinuities along a 3000 km profile across central South America at 20 S suggests that the depth variations of the 410-km (d410) and 660-km (d660) discontinuities are closely associated with the high-velocity Nazca slab and juxtaposed low-velocity oceanic mantle beneath the slab. The mantle transition zone thickness ranges from 220 km in the oceanic mantle to...

The Americas: Central and South America

AFRO-CUBAN THEOLOGY: RELIGION, RACE, CULTURE, AND THEOLOGY. By Michelle A. Gonzalez. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. 208. $29.95. Gonzalez gives us a comprehensive and fresh interpretation of the interdisciplinary character of Christian theology in this wonderful and well-written monograph on AfroCuban theology. Undergirded by a strong feminist and theological outlook, Gonza...

Industrial and vehicular contamination in Central America.

s and Reports 89 Several general objectives have been established. The project will attempt to evaluate how much industrial and vehicular emissions and wastes are released in the subregion; identify the toxic products with the greatest impact; determine the magnitude of surface water pollution by industrial effluents; determine the nature and magnitude of the problems posed by unsuitable dispos...