<!CDATA Liliana Wilson’s art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice. Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by ...the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s and who have become self-exiled artists working outside of Chile but who are still tied to the political period and to its issues and concerns. From a working class family that struggled financially, Wilson nonetheless was able to study law, which facilitated her successful immigration to the United States in 1977. She moved to Texas and in Austin found a cultural oasis that permitted her art to blossom. Now, after some thirty years of artistic work in Texas, she is recognized as a major Latina artist, whose influence extends beyond US borders. A crusader for justice and against oppression, she paints and draws in various media and has become an inspiration for younger artists concerned with not only political repression and inequality but also individual fear and despair. Ofrenda: Liliana Wilson’s Art of Protest and Resistance highlights some of Wilson’s most representative works, accompanied by biographical background and scholarly interpretation. >
Escaping Hitler Wyman, Eva Goldschmidt
2013, 2013-08-05
eBook
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had ...an active presence in the country’s major institutions.   Based primarily oninterviewswith German Jewish refugees and family correspondence, Eva Goldschmidt Wyman provides an intimateaccount of Jews in Germany in the 1930s as Nazi controls tightened and family members were taken to Riga concentration camp. Wyman recounts Kristallnacht in Stuttgart, where her father was principal of the Jewish school, his imprisonment in Dachau, and his release and immigration to Great Britain. Escaping Hitler details the family’s escape from Germany and subsequent life in Chile, providing an intimate look at daily life on the steam ship Conte Grande during the voyage from Italy to Chile in 1939, Nazi espionage and anti-Semitic activity in Chile, and the Nazi influence in South America in general.   Recounted in an intimate and personal style, Escaping Hitler immerses the reader in an extraordinary chapter of contemporary Jewish history both inside Germany and South America.
In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change ...under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized--Allende's government ended with a violent military coup; the system, known as Project Cybersyn, was never completely implemented--but they hold lessons for today about the relationship between technology and politics. Drawing on extensive archival material and interviews, Medina examines the cybernetic system envisioned by the Chilean government--which was to feature holistic system design, decentralized management, human-computer interaction, a national telex network, near real-time control of the growing industrial sector, and modeling the behavior of dynamic systems. She also describes, and documents with photographs, the network's Star Trek-like operations room, which featured swivel chairs with armrest control panels, a wall of screens displaying data, and flashing red lights to indicate economic emergencies. Studying project Cybersyn today helps us understand not only the technological ambitions of a government in the midst of political change but also the limitations of the Chilean revolution. This history further shows how human attempts to combine the political and the technological with the goal of creating a more just society can open new technological, intellectual, and political possibilities. Technologies, Medina writes, are historical texts; when we read them we are reading history.
This paper analyses the evolution of Chile's trade between 1990 and 2007, studying in particular the impact of trade liberalization in addition to traditional price and demand determinants. The ...results show that export and import flows are mainly responsive to external and domestic demand, and less so to relative prices, although there is a small impact on imports. In addition, the analysis suggests that trade liberalization may have played a role in increasing exports and imports. Estimations of trade elasticities for other countries in Latin America tend to confirm the results found for Chile.
This book explains why countries, especially developing countries, change their trade policies over the course of history. It does so through an interdisciplinary approach which borrows analyses from ...both political science and economics.
The aging retarding effect of `Long-Life CiLi Yong-Xing, Ma; Yue, Zhu; Chuan-Fu, Wang ...
Mechanisms of ageing and development,
06/1997, Volume:
96, Issue:
1-3
Journal Article, Conference Proceeding
Peer reviewed
`Long-Life CiLi' (`CiLi') oral liquid, is composed of superoxide dismutase (SOD), polysacchairide, vitamin C, vitamin E and trace elements which were all extracted from a natural plant fruit Cili ...(Rosa roxburghii Tratt) in Guizhou, China. A set of indices were evaluated after administration of `CiLi' 10 ml Bid. for two months in 50–75 years old healthy people, the mean value of NK cell activity (22.4 ±10.8→27.5±12.9%, P<0.05), SOD (453.0±24.2→468.6±21.3 μg/gHb, P<0.001), Catalase (15.5±1.7→17.4±3.0 U/mgHb, P<0.001) and GSH content (2.3±0.3→2.6±0.5 mg/gHb, P<0.001) in erythrocytes and `ΔCO, CI, SV, SI, LVET, LVETI and AC' values increased significantly, while the serum LPO level (4.20 ±0.78→3.78±0.50 nmol/ml, P<0.001), total microcircluation weighed value (1.87±1.0→0.92±0.5, P<0.001), ΔPVR (−241.7±733.2→187.9±938.2, P<0.05) and the light reaction time (Simple RT, red light: 383±128→332±68.9 ms, P<0.05; selective RT: red light 709±287→566±119 ms, P<0.05; green light 639±162→536±80 ms, P<0.01) decreased significantly. There were no significant differences in the control group. The mean life span of fruit flies were significantly elongated for low, medium and high concentrations `CiLi' treatment groups than in the control group (Female: 57.6±11.3→62.1±12.8; 69.6±14.7; 62.6±12 days; P<0.05∼0.001. Male: 56.3±9.6→64.9±12.4; 64.5±14.5; 64.8±14.1 days, P<0.001). It is suggested that `CiLi' has an aging retarding and geroprotection effect.
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