Temas de Nuestra America. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos

27-34

Authors: Cristopher Montero Corrales

This article deals with the tensions between historiography and fiction in literature, specifically in postmodern textual aesthetics. Initially, it poses generalities of the debate that have made it possible to homologate historical and fictional texts. Later, it analyzes the concept of meta literature or self-referentiality. It concludes with the analysis of the texts Tierra del fuego by Silvia Iparraguirre (2004) and El Libro de Daniel by E. L. Doctorov (2009) as texts that are constituted from these tensions between history/fiction and metaliterature.

43-65

Authors: Jhany Marcelo Macedo Rizo

The fall of real socialism, in addition to various internal problems and the economic embargo, led Cuba to the so-called Special Period during the 1990s. The Cuban government undertook a series of economic reforms aimed at combating its terrible effects and giving a boost to its planned national economy, but with very limited results in macroeconomic terms and in the quality of life of Cuban citizens. Due to the nature of some of these reforms, this article seeks to determine whether they constitute a prelude to the transition to a market economy or whether, on the contrary, they seek to have the State continue to play a preponderant role in the development model, while allowing some private initiatives. Although this new opening brings with it an expansion of civil and political rights, it is defended that Cuba aims to build its own model, tending to reinforce the current political system, in which in any case the reforms will be implemented gradually. In order to achieve this objective, the text starts with a comparative approach to review some relevant figures of the Cuban economy and to overview the most important reforms in the last decade.

83-106

Authors: Rafael Gustavo Miranda Delgado

This study aims to compare the political systems in Central America from a historical perspective. Here, Central America is considered as a very diverse region in experiences and quality of democracy; Costa Rica is the most successful, historical, contemporary case in the subregion. In the rest of the countries, there are relatively young and fragile democracies, without historical experiences of democracy, with very weak States, without social consensus, and with limited citizenship that is treated in a clientelist manner and is a victim of poverty and inequality.