The Council occupies a central position in the Organization of American States. The Charter names it as one of the six organs through which the Organization carries out its functions. It is the only body representing all member governments that is continually in session at the seat of the Organization. With some 60 years of consecutive if varied existence, the Council has been constantly subject to the major political influences that have shaped the attitudes of the 21 member governments toward the OAS. The fundamental character of the Council, its authority and its true role in the regional organization are still in a process of evolutionary development.

Latin-American international behavior has always seemed puzzling to the policy-makers of Washington, but perhaps never quite as incomprehensible as in connection with the recent Cuban missile crisis. On various occasions, notably during the San José and Punta del Este Foreign Ministers’ Conferences, the United States had attempted to obtain some concerted action against the aggresive and subversive activities of a Communist-dominated Cuba. The response of the Latin-American nations ranged from lukewarm to frigid, and the maximum that the U. S. was able to obtain (and that by a bare two-thirds vote) in the way of anti-Cuban action, was the expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States, a step which one must assume was greeted by the Cuban leaders with something less than total consternation.

A dissertação que aqui se tenta é, em muito, um processo de raciocinio “em voz alta”. Não tem pretensSes académicas. Nem se pretende um ensaio. Dentro de urna perspectiva dinámica — no modo de ser um processo e Não um molde ou esquema rígido, sendo mais um planejamento do que um plano acabado — é assim que gostaria de ser lido. E, se for o caso, criticado. Alias, urna assim dinámica perspetiva e um tal raciocinio sempre em processo áberto, solícito e experimental seriam ao meu ver o colorido e o modus mais adequado ao trabalho e ao pensar do cientista social. Áquele que se dispSe a trabalhar na invevstigacáo impulsionado por urna fértil “imaginação sociológica”.

The data concerning Brazilian law students presented in this article are the result of a survey made by the author ini 1960 while studying the judiciary system of that country. The objective of the survey was to identify those students favorably disposed toward the judiciary and to examine their social and economic background. In the process, however, a large amount of data of a more general nature was collected. Besides significant variations between different universities, Catholic and state, and the various economic groups, the data provide an empirical examination of the results of the process of selection for higher education in Brazil and the economic groups from which the student is drawn. Some information concerning the students’ attitudes toward politics was also gathered.

Social and cultural patterns in under-developed areas are being altered as industrialization occurs. For most of the peoples in these areas, industrialization means not only a new economic system, but also new patterns of non-economic behavior often sharply divergent from the old. Thus, the problem of economic development is not confined to establishing improved sources of productivity. It also concerns the ways in which a society will react and accommodate itself to the exigencies of economic change.

Until the end of World War Two, very little consideration was given to the implications of industrial development on the structure of society. The disregard of variables such as political systems, value systems, etc., has meant a change in the relationship between economic and social life, causing old cultures and social systems to collapse, and a rise in the resistance of the members of these societies to the advances of industrialization. The end result was that general improvement in living standards was not attained and a profound dislike for the foreigner was developed.

En nuestro caso debe entenderse el mito americano como transfiguración de los seres y fenómenos naturales en cuerpos extra-naturales o fuerzas sobrenaturales. En cambio, el folklore es más bien el fruto de la transculturación hispano-guaraní comenzando por la música, siguiendo con el ñandutí, las danzas, las canciones, refranes, adivinanzas, la platería, el vestido, las diversiones y la dietética.

El mito es de origen guaranítico; el folklore, una creación del hombre paraguayo.

Notoria es la diferencia entre los mitos amerindios y los clásicos. En Grecia, los dioses tienen pasiones humanas, son vengativos y sensuales. Encarnan como Zeus, Diana, y hasta el mismo Hércules fuerzas cósmicas y fenómenos naturales, con una imaginación distinta de la nuestra. Los helenos la poseían más rica que lo autóctona americana y, mucho más cultivada y cuyas representaciones son herencia de Egipto, Babilonia e India.

La literatura chilena ha tenido, desde sus comienzos, tendencia a lo narrativo, a la anécdota. Lo comprueban La Araucana, de Ercilla; el Arauco Domado, de Pedro de Oña; el Cautiverio Feliz, de Pineda y Bascuñán, y tantos otros documentos epopéyicos.

La novela, ya como género independiente, ha tenido cultivadores desde el principio de la nacionalidad. Don José Victorino Lastarria abre el camino con un llamado a los intelectuales de la época exhortándolos a mirar a su alrededor y a coger los temas que la historia, la leyenda y la vida les ponían a su alcance. Así comprendieron que en el propio medio había un rico venero literario que era perentorio elaborar.

Despite all the warnings that the Latin-American masses are aroused and demanding social justice, there is little empirical data demonstrating it although there are a few research reports suggesting the lack of validity of the general proposition, in some significant situations. For example, one survey report indicates that even with the rise of the militant, radical peasant leagues in northeast Brazil, the general rural populace has hardly any formulated opinion about nationalism or the Cuban Revolution. This absence of opinion suggests that the people are not yet either sufficiently agitated or aware of the relevance of government and politics in their lives for social revolution to emerge.

Great cities have historically demonstrated an affinity for riverine locations. Current activity in Venezuela points to the creation of a major urban node on the south bank of the Orinoco River, at its confluence with the Caroni (Figure 1). Since World War Two, but especially in the last decade, an important series of events within this area of Venezuela has pointed up the opportunity, if not the necessity, of bringing this long dormant region into the nation's developed, effectivelysettled domain. The mining and shipping of iron ore from El Pao by Bethlehem Steel's subsidiary, Iron Mines Company, initiated before the war but not operational until 1950, was the first major stimulus. The region was further awakened with the arrival of United States Steel's Orinoco Mining Company which opened up the Cerro Bolívar iron ore deposit. The first shipment here was in 1954. In both these projects, the developers had to bring in everything necessary for the beginning of operations.