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Latin America, Asia : A commercial globalisation coming with maps redistribution
Trade globalization participated in the movement of the centre of gravity of the world with the rise of the emerging economies of Asia and to a lesser extent those of Latin America. The world today is more that of yesterday. On many points, which yesterday were unimaginable, materializes today: the North can no longer dominate the South in the same way as before. But the South, himself, is deeply heterogeneous: the least developed countries, the emerging Asian and Latin American emerging countries are very different and their respective influences are not similar. Latin-American emergent countries are subject to the increasing influence of those of Asia on the same basis that they underwent yesterday that of the advanced economies.

Finance and growth in Argentina of the 2000s
The structure of the Argentine economy has witnessed significant transformations in the wake of a new expansion cycle following the violent crisis of 2001. After recalling the main aspects of the well-known increase of the weight of the public sector in the economy, the article discusses the transformations of the financial scene in the 2000s. Net transfers of savings between Argentina and the rest of the world have shifted as well as the circuits of finance at an internal level. Notwithstanding the fragility arising from the use of the dollar for savings purposes at the domestic level, the reduction of external leverage allows us to foresee an economic future less dependent on swings in globalised finance.

The new clothes of the public transport in Rio de Janeiro Second urban area of
Brazil and heart of a metropolitan system of 11,5 million inhabitants, Rio de Janeiro suffers from a deficient offer of public transport. Nevertheless, other Brazilian metropolises know how to overcome their problems and even become international references following the example of Curitiba. The reasons can be found in a local context, where the political carelessness held in check, for 20 years, all the attempts of reorganization. By the diffcult situation, the municipal power intends to seize the opportunity of organizing two major events to boost an ambitious planning of transports: the Football World Cup (2014) and the Olympics (2016).

The mexican hydra: the return of the PRI. The author discusses in this essay the Mexican political situation of the last twelve years and the foretold electoral victory of the PRI in 2012. Drug trafficking is only a symptom of the deeper decomposition of political society. In a society riddled with corruption and a political system characterized by intolerance and lack of consensus, the PRI has become a real political party capable of winning elections in a pluralist system. But the PRI is far from being a democratic party.

Bolivia during Evo Morales's Presidency : continuance and breakdown
In 2006, the new president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, presented himself as the incarnation of a radical novelty: the return of Indians in the public affairs after centuries of colonization. Six years later, as his popularity had decreased and his image had been stained, we might wonder what really changed under his term of office. Two factors, that we will study in this article, caused and made possible an authoritarian and clientelist policy. Now, despite strong social tensions, this policy allows the government to resist.

The traditional networks of the “Generation de 1928” (1928-1935)This article concerns the transnational networks and the collective actions led by the former students of the Central university of Caracas, who were expelled from Venezuela in 1929 and whom the historiography appoints as the “Generation of 1928”. Using the methodology of the social networks analysis to explore the sociopolitical properties of Rómulo Betancourt ego network, this work brings to light various characteristics of the internationalization of the activities of these Venezuelan exiles. It examines in particular the existing rivalries for the control of the resistance against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.

Street children on the screen: a social urban category trough the cinema
The purpose of this article is to question the social category of street children and its collective representations, through the study of the images and discourses produced by Latin American movies, since the second half of the XX century. We will focus our analysis on four movies, Brazilian, Mexican and Colombian productions, which have also been distributed in other countries. For the clichés they provide, distributed on a large scale, not only translate into images the tendencies and anxieties of a society but also feed its collective imaginary.