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Abstract: Sports migrations are a social phenomenon inherent to the professional career of different athletes in the world, who at peak times of their careers get to move from one country to another to compete in international encounters, to train under other techniques or sports schools, and even to perform professionally. What is at stake in these journeys? In this article I will address the phenomenon of sports migration from the perspective and experiences of four Mexican wrestlers who have professional wrestling experience in Japan and whom I interviewed at different times in 2017. In considering these fighters as skilled temporary migrants, it becomes necessary to pose and try to answer the following questions: What is your motivation to go to Japan? What is the attraction of fighting in Japan? Does the trip to Japan respond to the desire of the fighters to be the best at what they do? Why are Japanese wrestlers interested in Mexican wrestlers? What has been the experience of Mexican fighters with respect to Japanese society? Are there differences between working in Mexico and Japan? How do the Mexican fighters live the tours of work for Japan?

Keywords: Mexican wrestlers, sports migration, Japan, cultural contributions.

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Abstract: Civil society including regional groups or initiatives, together with local and international experts had a particular interest in the quality of life of Ciudad Juárez that has documented since the second half of the twentieth century the trend and development considering the advances as well as the backward motion in the town planning in various subjects such as education, health, economy, citizen participation, where public open space has been included, the present essay emphasizes the relevance of two of the historic and most recognized sites: Plaza de Armas and Plaza Monument to Juárez that have served as cultural scenes, recreational as well as conformers of the urban dynamics of the north border zone denominated at the moment like Heroic Ciudad Juárez.

Keywords: Open public space, Patrimony, Ciudad Juárez, collective memory, urban policies.

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Abstract: This paper discusses early changes of planning for development in form and content, while being replaced by so-called strategic planning in contemporary organizational processes. Strategic planning today is widely applied forming an integral part of the management processes in public and private organizations. Liberal predominance over the last four decades has stood out its importance from a positivistic and individualistic epistemological base, assuming it is a technique that allows to control processes and results of organizations, despite only considering internal determinations, leaving out the surrounding environment conditions wherein they operate and that impinge on their evolution. Self-sufficiency of strategic planning denies the complex understanding of the social processes, and also omits any supplement and interaction with other functional areas of the organization, its organic entirety and context, with respect to results and ongoing business of the organization.

Keywords: Development, Liberalism, Social State, Privatization, Individualism.


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Abstract: The present research deals with the concept of governmentality, a category that was developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault (2006), with the purpose of relating neoliberal forms of government with populist political rationality, providing theoretical elements to answer the question On whether both rationalities represent antagonistic forms of government or between them there are continuities that makes it possible to recognize the transitions in Latin America from populist governments to conservative and neoliberal governments. The question of antagonism and the continuity of the two types of governmentality is generated by the current political situation of the Latin American region, where we live a cycle end of the so-called post-neoliberal governments that operated under a populist logic, and the emergency Of neo-liberal government experiences that accompany daily politics with the development of adjustment plans. This research work will critically address the paradox of post-neoliberal governments that based their accumulation of power through a Manichean perspective of society, abandoning the Marxist approach to becoming populist looks that build an antagonistic otherness that agglutinates outside Class interests, and the continuity of market policies, as is the case in Venezuela today, or development projects based on extractivism, an issue that is transversal to the entire region. As a methodology, a hermeneutic of Foucault's texts will be developed, as well as analyzes of Latin American conjuncture, and those related to the question of governmentality.

Keywords: Governmentalism, Neoliberalism, Populism, Government, Latin America.

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Abstract: In the 1980s and 1990s, the evolution of international trade was marked by the tension between two apparently contradictory trends: on the one hand, the growing liberalization of trade, on the other, a variety of governments´ projects to set up trading blocs. That´s mean the notion of a regionalized global economy. That is, a global system of trade between trading areas, with increasing homogenization of customs within the area, while maintaining trade barriers vis a vis the rest of the world. In Europe, they have formed, together a new form of state, the network state, one of whose key features is the sharing of a unified economy, not just a trading block. Shifting to the Americas, NAFTA simply institutionalizes the already existing interpenetration of the three North American economics.

UNASUR is a promising blueprint for the economic integration of South America. The most meaningful aspect of UNASUR development  is, in fact, that it signals the growing independence of south American economies vis a vis the united states.

Keywords: Globalization, Regionalization, Integration, Balance of Power, Continental Unit.

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Resumen: En este artículo se aborda el sentido del trabajo intelectual en América Latina (AL). Se parte de la constatación de una característica adquirida a través de la colonización en AL: la fragmentación cultural. Esta característica nos lleva a reconocer que el trabajo intelectual que se realiza en AL es de matriz europea. Por lo tanto, en sentido estricto, en el entorno cultural latinoamericano el trabajo intelectual no tiene sentido.

Palabras clave: trabajo intelectual, América Latina, fragmentación cultural, colonización.

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Summary: Coloniality and modernity within the context that arise as a rhetorical intend to present the lives of people who have been placed at the margins of the development project, these subjects delve modernizing and globalizing world amid plan to ethnocentric justifications once western assumes control of the identification policy of being. A system of empowerment to assert that Europe as a center and what is around you and the periphery, which is in the south suburbs, is transformed into an object of rejection or criticism, biased eyes; this policy location and identification assumes the value of political and epistemological strategy subjugation of the people of the south to the status of subject and subordinate to the immigrant, hence the rise to the status of "other", detached from society, supporting enough to all the negative linked to immigrant status.

Keywords: colonialism, modernity, immigration, subaltern.

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Abstract: Critical thinking requires constantly renewed. Needs to be in motion, for which the recent decolonial perspective it provides a number of problems that force us to test our theoretical frameworks. Often Eurocentric. In that sense, we focus on problematizing our own critical thinking in relationship with decolonial.

Keywords:  Theory, criticism, Latin America, decolonial, thinking.

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Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze the transition of role of agriculture and food Mexico's from the terms of the food regimes guidelines. From the evidence, the loss of food self-sufficiency associated with the insertion of the corporative food regime in the country, has led to dependence, increased specialization of agricultural and the expansion of modern distribution under the control of few but large food companies on detriment of the structure of crops and consumption pattern the population. Lack of food sovereignty in Mexico reproduces features to the dominant food regime: subordination of agriculture and food to the interests of corporate capital. Both elements are translated into commercial goods that do not satisfy nutrients and neither possibilities of rural people to produce and market food products.

Keywords: food regimes, role of agriculture, food, consumption pattern.