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Latin America is an increasingly important geopolitical entity and its nations are emerging as some of the most influential and radical states in the modern world. The media conglomerates which control the television and radio platforms in these countries, such as the Globo organization in Brazil and the Mercurial S.P.A. media corporation in Chile, have great political influence across the region. Here, Carolina Matos contrasts public service broadcasting in Latin America to that in Europe and the UK, engaging with current debates on globalization and theories of cultural imperialism. She...

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained. Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women’s rights, including the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States, sexual and reproductive health rights are at the forefront of conversations about the advancement of gender equality. To determine how communications are used strategically to shape policy, Carolina Matos explores fifty-two feminist and health NGOs from across the world and how they are...

Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil is an investigation into the complexities of the relationship established between the media and the government in the aftermath of the Brazilian dictatorship. It examines the role of the mainstream press in the process of the democratization of the Latin American nation from 1984 to 2002 and questions to what extent the communications industry was able to offer contributions to the creation of wider democratic spaces for debate in the media's public sphere.Matos concludes that the commercial media did have a role in advancing the cause of democracy...

O indice de sustentabilidade de municipios brasileiros demonstra os pontos fortes e fracos da gestao municipal sob os aspectos social, economico, ambiental e institucional. Sinaliza tambem, as mudancas necessarias para alcancar o desenvolvimento sustentavel em oito municipios brasileiros - Barreirinha (AM); Anapu, Faro, Novo Progresso, Ruropolis e Sao Felix do Xingu (PA); e Matupa e Nova Mutum (MT). Esses municipios estao localizados nos estados do Mato Grosso, Para e Amazonas, na area de influencia da rodovia BR-163, que liga Cuiaba (MT) a Santarem (PA). A rodovia e o eixo principal de uma...