Tratado de Libre Comercio de America Central y Repúbica Dominicana (TLCAC-RD): ¿Qué Hay en Ello para la Agricultura de Florida? by Edward A. Evans

“… El 5 de agosto del 2004, los Estados Unidos firmó el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América Central y República Dominicana (TLCAC-RD) con Costa Rica, República Dominicana, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, y Nicaragua. El acuerdo, si es que es aprobado por los gobiernos de todos los países signatarios, resultará en la creación del segundo mercado más grande de exportación para los Estados Unidos en lationoamérica, después de Méjico. …”
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Caracterización, procesabilidad y viabilidad técnica de fondos de taza de caucho natural by Natalia Cardona Vásquez, Diego Hernán Giraldo Vásquez, Sandra Milena Velásquez Restrepo

“… En este artículo, se compararon propiedades fsicoquímicas, espectroscópicas, de resistencia a la termooxidación y de procesabilidad de fondos de taza de caucho natural de los clones IAN 873 y FX 3864 respecto del caucho natural técnicamente especifcado grado 10 proveniente de Guatemala, uno de los más importados en Colombia y en América Latina. …”
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La contribución de América Latina a la construcción teórica de las operaciones de mantenimiento de la paz by Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez

“…Fue en El Salvador donde por primera vez hubo una vigilancia activa de los derechos humanos por funcionarios internacionales, o fue en Guatemala donde la Asamblea General asume la dirección política de una operación de mantenimiento de la paz como operación de consolidación multidimensional de la paz. …”
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Addressing the Oncologist Shortage in Latin America: Insights From a Survey of Medical Oncology Fellowship Programs by Mauricio Zegarra-López, Alejandro Aranda-Gutierrez, Jose Felipe Muñoz Lozano, Cynthia Villarreal-Garza

“…These nations—along with Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru—depend on foreign education for the training of their medical oncologists. …”
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Manual de Prácticas para el Mejor Manejo Postcosecha del Mango by Jeffrey K. Brecht, Steven A. Sargent, Adel A. Kader, Elizabeth J. Mitcham, Fernando Maul, Patrick E. Brecht, Octavio Menocal

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Manual de Prácticas para el Mejor Manejo Postcosecha del Mango by Jeffrey K. Brecht, Steven A. Sargent, Adel A. Kader, Elizabeth J. Mitcham, Fernando Maul, Patrick E. Brecht, Octavio Menocal

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Clinical-epidemiological behaviour of patients after cataract surgery by Leydi E. Jacomino Hernández, Idalia Triana Casado, Juan C. Medina Perdomo

“…<strong><br /> Methods:</strong> An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study conducted in the "José Joaquín Palma" Ophthalmology Center in the town of San Cristóbal, Guatemala. We included all patients over 18 years old meeting the inclusion criteria who had had a cataract surgery between July and December 2007. …”
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'The last genius...' or people should know their heroes (Yuri Knorozov's new biography) [Review: Ershova G.G. The Last Genius of the 20th Century. Yuri Knorozov: The Researcher's F... by D.E. Martynov

“…Ershova, the current head of the Mesoamerican Educational and Scientific Center in the Russian State Humanitarian University and a number of commercial educational projects in Guatemala and Mexico. The main and internationally recognized achievement by Yu.V. …”
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Voices and visions: Navigating the landscape of sexual, reproductive, and maternal health and rights in Latin America and the Caribbean: A stakeholder mapping and analysis by Sofia Pirsch, Denise Zavala, Mabel Berrueta, María Belizán, Juan Pedro Alonso, Sandra Formia, Jamile Ballivian, Miluska Ramirez-Rodríguez, Maisa Havela, Gabriela Perrota, Analía López, Cintia Cejas, Adolfo Rubinstein

“…Our study focuses on Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. The primary objective was to identify and comprehensively categorise the activities undertaken by them, since their actions shape, and promote or hinder the SRMHR political agenda in the region. …”
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Specifics of Foreign Assistance Allocation under the Trump Administration: From Inauguration to ‘Ukrainegate’ by V. I. Bartenev

“…The final section identifies common and unique features of three exemplary cases of aid suspension — towards Pakistan, the Northern Triangle countries (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) and Ukraine. The conclusion is drawn that from the very beginning Donald Trump had promoted an extremely pragmatic, transactionalist approach to foreign assistance with aid allocation regarded as a mutually beneficial transaction meant to bring concrete and often short-term dividends. …”
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Evaluation of quality policies and strategies in health systems: a scoping review by Zenewton André da Silva Gama, Márcia Cunha da Silva Pellense, Pedro Jesús Saturno Hernández, Anna Cláudia Sales Gomes Caldas

“…An instrument used in Afghanistan, Armenia, Guatemala and Mexico proved to be potentially useful for dissemination in other countries. …”
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A worldwide look into long COVID-19 management: an END-COVID survey by Mattia Nigro, Claudia Valenzuela, Francisco Arancibia, Mark Cohen, David C.L. Lam, Ryan C. Maves, Barbara Rath, Steven Q. Simpson, Yuanlin Song, Sotirios Tsiodras, James D. Chalmers, Stefano Aliberti

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Diversity in mitotic DNA repair efficiencies between commercial inbred maize lines and native Central American purple landraces by Carlos Víquez-Zamora, Sergio Castro-Pacheco, María Viñas, Pablo Bolaños-Villegas

“…In this project, we determined the relative DNA repair efficiency of the US inbred lines B73 and Mo17 and Central American purple landraces from Guatemala and Costa Rica with the purpose to uncover genetic differences that may allow for the breeding of new lines better adapted to tolerate DNA damage caused by environmental factors. …”
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Factorial invariance of the generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7) in Latin America and the Caribbean by Norman López, Norman López, Juan-Carlos Coronado, Daniela Ripoll-Córdoba, Nicole Caldichoury, César Quispe-Ayala, Breiner Morales-Asencio, Raúl Quincho-Apumayta, Cesar Castellanos, Juan Martínez, Juan Cárdenas-Valverde, Luis Mario Castellanos-Alvarenga, David Salazar, Irina Flores-Poma, Jorge Herrera-Pino, Wendy Bada, Yuliana Flórez, Karen Alcos-Flores, Boris Zurita-Cueva, Elsa Muñoz Romero, Cristian Romo, Regulo Antezana, Claudio Avila Saldaña, Pascual A. Gargiulo

“…IntroductionThe prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) has increased rapidly, highlighting the importance of its detection using quick tools applicable to men and women from different countries.ObjectiveTo analyze the psychometric properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Test (GAD-7) by gender and country in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).MethodA cross-sectional e-health study with 12,124 participants from 15 LAC countries (54.32% women, 45.68% men) was conducted, including participants from Argentina (7.3%), Bolivia (6.7%), Colombia (10.3%), Chile (6.9%), Costa Rica (4.9%), El Salvador (5.7%), Ecuador (7.2%), Guatemala (4.7%), Panama (5.1%), Paraguay (5.7%), Peru (8.6%), Puerto Rico (5.8%), the Dominican Republic (6.6%), Uruguay (6.3%), and Venezuela (8.2%). …”
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