La iglesia arciprestal de El Salvador, como edificio principal dentro de la arquitectura religiosa del municipio de Mutxamel, ha sufrido a lo largo de su historia transformaciones de su configuración inicial para adaptarse a las necesidades de cada momento así como actuaciones de reparación y mantenimiento. En el presente trabajo de investigación, enmarcado dentro del contexto de la arquitectura religiosa de la localidad, se ha profundizado en el conocimiento de su edificio más singular, analizándolo desde un punto de vista histórico, constructivo y arquitectónico. Para alcanzar los objetivos ha sido necesario estudiar su evolución a lo largo de sus cinco siglos de existencia desde la iglesia fortaleza que fue el primer templo, del cual aún conserva su atalaya, la torre campanario y comparándola para contextualizarla con el gran número de construcciones de este tipo existentes en la comarca, zona que debido a los avatares históricos sufridos, principalmente incursiones berberiscas dada la proximidad de las costas africanas así como con las iglesias fortaleza existentes actualmente a nivel provincial y nacional, a la iglesia barroca con elementos interiores neoclásicos que es en la actualidad. Hay que destacar el importante cambio sufrido por el templo en los siglos XVIII-XIX cuando paso a ser la iglesia que hoy podemos contemplar adecuada a las comentes arquitectónicas imperantes en el momento. Para la toma de datos se ha realizado un profundo trabajo de investigación documental así como un no menos importante trabajo de campo consistente en un levantamiento topográfico de las dimensiones del templo, análisis de los materiales pétreos que lo forman, realización de tomas con la cámara termográfica, comprobación de la resistencia de soportes con ultrasonidos, etc. Como conclusión este trabajo ha permitido consensuar y contrastar los conocimientos existentes sobre el origen y la evolución del edificio, como son quienes fueron los responsables del diseño y la ejecución del templo, plazos de duración de las obras, intervenciones de reparación y mantenimiento sufridas a lo largo de su historia, etc. y aportar algunos nuevos como ha sido la composición de los materiales pétreos utilizados para su construcción, técnicas y soluciones constructivas empleadas y esencialmente el reunir en un solo documento toda la información conocida hasta la fecha sobre el monumento que o bien era desconocida o se encontraba dispersa. El resultado es un importante documento de referencia para cualquier tipo de consulta a realizar en un futuro sobre la iglesia estudiada, concluyendo con la aportación de unas pautas de mantenimiento y conservación para concienciar a todos aquellos agentes responsables de la importancia de su preservación.

A presente dissertação de mestrado tem por núcleo a Vida de Huma illustre virgem, manuscrito da Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, da autoria do carmelita descalço D. Fr. Luís de Santa Teresa, Bispo de Olinda. Trata-se de uma biografia devota inédita - tanto quanto se pôde apurar - e dplamente ignota. Se, por um lado, não parece ter experimentado, até ao momento, o dedo do investigador; por outro, desconhecia-se que R. Luís de Santa Teresa tivesse escrito a biografia de D. Josefa Maria da trindade, beneditina do Convento de S. Salvador de Braga. A autora procede à edição interpretativa do referido manuscrito, justificando, no Estudo Preliminar, as suas opções críticas (tomo II). No tomo I, procurou-se dilucidar esta Vida dos anos 30 de setecentos em três grandes vectores: personagens, contextos e género literário. Deste trabalho de investigação avulta uma pesquisa arquivística assaz 'detectivesca', que terá permitido responder a algumas interrogações suscitadas pelo texto e bem assim desvendar parte das suas incógnitas, no sentido matemático do termo (os 'x'). Uma vida 'invisível' se descobre para lá da Vida.

This study explores the impact family separation had on both the child and the parent after reunification. Semi-Structured qualitative interviews were conducted. One participant was left behind by parents while they immigrated without proper documentation and eventually reunited with them. There was one mother who immigrated to reunite with her children. There were also four parent participants who left their children behind while immigrating into the United States. This study provides a glimpse of what an undocumented family reunification looks like

<p>Since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994 there has been an incentive to create free trade agreement with all the American countries. The next step to reach a free trade agreement like this has been the CAFTA, where also the Central American countries are involved in an agreement with the U.S. El Salvador is part of this agreement. The project has both been criticized and praised. Due to these different opinions the thesis wants to give answers to how CAFTA will affect different sectors in the economy in El Salvador and how the agreement will affect the people working in these sectors. The studied sectors are the agriculture, the assembly industry and the micro, small, and medium businesses in the informal sector. With the help of theories about free trade, specialization, factor mobility and growth, together with information about the experiences from Mexico and interviews from El Salvador, the answers are given to the problem. El Salvador will have comparative advantages in some products in the agriculture sector. The assembly industry will be able to compete if they can stand against the competition with China. The micro, small, and medium businesses are more orientated to the local market and will not be affected. In all sectors the lack of support from the government is a problem. The FDI is expected to increase but there will not be any technological transfer. Workers in the farm sector will move to the cities where they will find jobs in the assemblies or in the informal sector. Those who do not find jobs will emigrate to the U.S.</p>

Since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994 there has been an incentive to create free trade agreement with all the American countries. The next step to reach a free trade agreement like this has been the CAFTA, where also the Central American countries are involved in an agreement with the U.S. El Salvador is part of this agreement. The project has both been criticized and praised. Due to these different opinions the thesis wants to give answers to how CAFTA will affect different sectors in the economy in El Salvador and how the agreement will affect the people working in these sectors. The studied sectors are the agriculture, the assembly industry and the micro, small, and medium businesses in the informal sector. With the help of theories about free trade, specialization, factor mobility and growth, together with information about the experiences from Mexico and interviews from El Salvador, the answers are given to the problem. El Salvador will have comparative advantages in some products in the agriculture sector. The assembly industry will be able to compete if they can stand against the competition with China. The micro, small, and medium businesses are more orientated to the local market and will not be affected. In all sectors the lack of support from the government is a problem. The FDI is expected to increase but there will not be any technological transfer. Workers in the farm sector will move to the cities where they will find jobs in the assemblies or in the informal sector. Those who do not find jobs will emigrate to the U.S.

Univ., Diss.--Lund, 2005.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät--Nürnberg-Erlangen--Friedrich-Alexander Universität, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. [423]-452.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Geology, 2008. / "December, 2008." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 12/13/2009) Advisor, Lisa E. Park; Faculty Readers, Ira D. Sasowsky, John Peck; Department Chair, John P. Szabo; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

This report explores the evolution of advocacy strategies amongst human rights organizations in El Salvador over the past two decades, focusing in particular on domestic activists’ perceived need to use transnational venues for activism in order to achieve positive domestic results. The Salvadoran political transition in 2009 is used to examine how changing political opportunity structures at the domestic level affect human rights organizations’ transnational strategies. Extensive in-country fieldwork in 2011 involved eighteen in-depth interviews with activists, academics, and government officials, four months of participant observation with one of the human rights organizations of interest, and primary document content analysis. The results of this research allow for two human rights networks to be considered: the historical human rights movement seeking justice and reparations for human rights violations committed during the Salvadoran civil war, and the contemporary migrants’ rights movement seeking both protection and reparations for Salvadoran migrants and their families. The findings suggest that despite significant openness at the domestic level, activists perceive transnational strategies as an important complement to domestic strategies that allow them to achieve positive concrete change and protect against future reversals in policy. / text

For many years, El Salvador and Guatemala were submerged in brutal and bloody conflicts that cost the lives of tens of thousands. United Nations-brokered Peace Accords officially brought the years of violence to an end in 1992 and 1996, respectively. As the two countries slowly emerged from their respective Cold War-inspired internal conflicts, the question of what place the past would have in the present came to the fore. This dissertation explores the way past violence is talked about in the public sphere. It analyzes post-Peace Accords public discourse in both countries, with a particular focus on the issues of memory, forgetting, truth, reconciliation, and related terms. It examines the different tasks memory and truth were assigned in the Peace Accords, especially in relation to the truth/truth-like commissions created out of those accords, and in the years since, and looks at the language those who reject memory and truth use to oppose them. This dissertation argues that a common discursive framework exists in Guatemala that dictates that all sectors must insist on the importance of remembering the violence to prevent repetition. This is the human rights community's discourse, but it is one which even conservatives who wish for forgetting must repeat. Conservatives can only promote forgetting within the limits of this discursive framework, and they do so by talking about amnesty, perdón (pardon/forgiveness), and reconciliation. The situation in El Salvador is different. There is no common discursive framework that demands memory to prevent repetition and promote reconciliation. Rather than this, conservatives openly insist on amnesty and amnesia, while the human rights community insists on truth and memory. The discursive battle between forgetting and truth is El Salvador's discursive framework. Yet talking about memory, truth, reconciliation, and related topics leaves space to promote different truths, memories, or narratives of the past. This, indeed, is precisely what happens in both countries as different sectors actively promote their own truth, memory, or narrative, especially at moments of rupture or when their truth or discourse is challenged, as in 2012 when Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes asked for perdón for the El Mozote massacre and during Guatemala's 2013 genocide trial. Running throughout the discussion about discourse and discursive frameworks is a critique of the insistence on the existence of one truth, memory, or narrative of the past. This is the foundation on which truth and truth-like commissions are built. Yet rather than focusing on the truth of the past, this dissertation argues that the process of openly talking about the past and sharing truths and experiences will do more to contribute to reconciliation and non-repetition than insisting that there is and can only be one truth and that everyone must embrace it.