This report reviews the evolution of the Andean Community in the 1990s. The Andean Group metamorphosed into the Andean Community in June 1997 when the Cartagena Agreement, signed in 1969, was modified by the Trujillo Protocol. The new protocol introduced some important changes in the institutional framework of the Andean Group. Modeled on the European Community, the Andean institutions have tra...

Historically, colonies in the strict sense of “settlements” had existed long before the advent of global capitalism; the English word colony is derived from the ancient Latin term colonia, denoting an outpost or settlement. However, colonialism as a principle of imperial statecraft and an effective strategy of capitalist expansion that involved sustained appropriation of the resources of other ...

This paper presents a simple theoretical framework to explain variations in income inequality over time and between countries. It also analyses the factors responsible for the widespread rise in inequality during the neo-liberal reforms of 1980-2000 in the fields of trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and capital flows, and the rise in migration. Finally, it compares the decline in inequalit...

EVALSO (Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories) is an international consortium of nine astronomical organisations, and research network operators, part-funded under the European Commission FP7, to create and exploit high-speed bandwidth connections to South American observatories. The paper, after describing the genesis of the project and the selection and construction...

The article deals with the original Eastern Romance vocabulary recorded in dialects of Ukrainian language and its proto-forms, as well examines formation semantics borrowings from Proto-Indo- European period to present. To achieve goal, author compiles a corpus words presented dialects, determines their Indo- European, Italic Latin corrects those them indicated etymological literature, establis...

the term “spirituality” has been proposed to denote the notion of intellectuality. actually, the former has been derived from the latin words “spiritus” (means breath) and “spirare” (means inhaling or breathing). given the latin translations of the new testament, the term “spiritualis” or spiritual person is an individual whose life is dominated or influenced by the holy spirit or god (1).

From August 22 to 26, 2022, the VIII International Congress of American Studies was held in Rio de Janeiro. This congress focused on most pressing issues contemporary Latin agenda - globalization and regionalization, economic development, impact covid-19 pandemic social, political, economic, demographic processes. As a part congress, round table “Migration, Migrants, Migration Policy Era covid-...

the purpose of this research was market segmentation of sport tourism in iran for foreign tourists and modeling a target market. a questionnaire including 53 items was developed by researchers. the validity and reliability of the questionnaire were examined and approved (?=0.93). it was distributed among 710 international participants from 35 countries attending fajr international sports event ...