Arrighetto El insomnio

_Traducción del cuento "Insomnio", de Arrigo de Settimelo, conocido como Arrighetto, escritor italiano del siglo XII

Adiós a Italia en La Colmena

_Traducciones literarias del italiano al español, los textos traducidos son de géneros literarios diversos: poesía, cuentos breves y aforismos

Forms of constructing otherness: the representation of the journeys of the Fragata Sarmiento in Caras y Caretas (1899-1910)

El presente trabajo realiza un análisis de las representaciones dadas por la revista Caras y Caretas en torno a los viajes realizados por la Fragata Sarmiento entre los años 1899-1910. Mediante este análisis, se busca evidenciar el impacto que significaron las concepciones eurocentristas al momento de la construcción por parte del Estado argentino de una identidad nacional. Asimismo, interrogar sobre la forma de construcción de una "otredad", como forma de definición de la propia "identidad" argentina, a través del discurso dominante sobre las nociones de lo moderno, lo occidental y el progreso.This article analyses the representation given by the Caras y Caretas magazine about the trips carried out by the Sarmiento frigate since 1899 to 1910. This analysis shows the impact that eurocentric conception had at the time of construction by the Argentina Estate of a national identity. Also, this article would try to ask about the ways of construction of otherness as a form of Argentina's identity definition, where notions about modernity, occidental and progress will represent the dominant discourse.Fil: Fernandez, Guillermo. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco". Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales - Sede Comodoro. Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Políticos de la Patagonia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

FISCAL REFORM SCENARIOS AND ACCESSIBILITY TO FOOD IN GUATEMALA

Since signing the peace accords in 1996, the Guatemalan government committed to increase the tax burden of 1995 by 50% to a total of 13%. This target has only been reached 4 times in more than two decades. There have been multiple attempts at tax reforms that have failed or been incomplete. Guatemala exhibits much income inequality and is one of the poorest countries in the region. Given this background, the problem to be considered in this analysis is that there is little information regarding how different tax reforms would affect the accessibility to food in Guatemala. With information regarding taxes collected from Superintendencia de Administracion Tributaria (SAT) a collection target of Q 13,036 million more was set and then five different income tax and VAT scenarios where put in place with the purpose of evaluating how food accessibility was affected in the five income quintiles of the population. To measure food security the cost of the basic food basket (BFB) was used. The BFB is transformed from a family unit to an individual basis. The price of the BFB is then divided by income to measure the accessibility of food for individuals in the different income quintiles. This is then divided by income creating a Food Accessibility Index (FAI) which is the maximum amount of food that the individual in the given quintile can afford. The results show that new VAT and income taxes hurt the accessibility of food and the lower income individuals are marginally affected more than higher income ones. Held constant the tax structure providing the most food accessibility is based on taxing imported product; the least food accessibility comes from a scenario in which the revenues are attained solely through a domestic sales tax

Spontaneous mass generation and the small dimensions of the Standard Model gauge groups U(1), SU(2) and SU(3)

The gauge symmetry of the Standard Model is SU(3)_c x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y for unknown reasons. One aspect that can be addressed is the low dimensionality of all its subgroups. Why not much larger groups like SU(7), or for that matter, SP(38) or E7? We observe that fermions charged under large groups acquire much bigger dynamical masses, all things being equal at a high e.g. GUT scale, than ordinary quarks. Should such multicharged fermions exist, they are too heavy to be observed today and have either decayed early on (if they couple to the rest of the Standard Model) or become reliquial dark matter (if they don't). The result follows from strong antiscreening of the running coupling for those larger groups (with an appropriately small number of flavors) together with scaling properties of the Dyson-Schwinger equation for the fermion mass.Comment: 15 pages, 17 plots. This version incorporates community as well as referee comments. Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics

The Growth-Interest Rate Cycle in the United States and its Consequences for Emerging Markets

At the time of writing there were widespread concerns about the health of the U.S. economy. There is conclusive evidence that the pace of growth has slowed, which has prompted the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates on two occasions (a total of 100 basis points thus far). As usual, when faced with this kind of turning point, analysts and policy makers alike wonder whether the United States will achieve a “soft landing” or whether the downturn is more serious and protracted—in the worst scenario, the new weakness could signal the end of the new economy. Furthermore, recent inflation surprises have not been encouraging, as higher-thanexpected inflation numbers may curtail the Federal Reserve’s desire and ability to act countercyclically. In this paper, we do not attempt to provide any insights into what lies ahead for the U.S. economy. Our focus is on gaining a better understanding of how the U.S. business cycle, its associated monetary policy cycle, and their interaction affect developing countries. The question of North-South linkages is hardly a new one; the role of trade and primary commodity markets in linking developed and developing countries has a long history (see, for instance, Prebisch, 1950 and Singer, 1950). The links between debtor and creditor nations are also not new (see Diaz- Alejandro, 1984, Dornbusch, 1985, and Calvo, Leiderman, and Reinhart, 1993). Indeed, what is “new” is that some links that had been thought to be extinct have revived in recent years while some “old” links have weakened. As Bordo and Eichengreen (1998) observe, the decade of the 1990s shares some of the features of an earlier age of globalization and high capital mobility prior to World War I; namely, portfolio capital flows to emerging markets have re-emerged as an important link between northern lenders and southern borrowers. This revival is particularly pronounced in the larger Latin American countries. Some of the traditional links, however, may have weakened, as many countries in Asia and Latin America have successfully diversified their exports away from primary commodities. Hence, terms-of-trade shocks may (in some cases) play a smaller role today than in the past. Both of these observations would suggest that, in general, trade/commodity price links may have weakened while financial links may have become stronger. However, one must be cautious in interpretation owing to the large variation across countries in the degree of trade and capital market integration. While the share of primarycommodities in Mexico’s exports has declined dramatically in the past 30 years, the importance of U.S. markets, owing to NAFTA, has soared, which suggests that the trade channel is quantitatively important in the Mexican case.2 These are the questions we analyze. Our focus is on how developments in the United States affect capital flows and growth in emerging market countries across various regions and country groups.