Chapter 1. The roots of Cuba's agricultural renascence / Paul L. Gersper -- Chapter 2. Implication of U.S. rice export promotion programs : the case of selected Latin American countries / Dae-Seob Lee, Yiqian Wang and P. Lynn Kennedy -- Chapter 3. From Argiropolis to Macondo : Latin American intellectuals and the tasks of modernization / Emil Volek -- Chapter 4. Troubling the femme fatale gender in the Brazilian film Madame Satã (2002) / António Márcio da Silva -- Chapter 5. The evolution and contributions of Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo / Lisa Wagner and Madalena Sánchez -- Chapter 6. Banks' responses to the entry of Banco Santander in Latin America / Eric Rodríguez -- Chapter 7. Analyst origin and their forecasting quality on the Latin American stock markets / Jean-François Bacmann, Guido Bolliger -- Chapter 8. Income mobility in Latin America : a pseudo-panel approach / José Cuesta, Hugo Nopo, and Georgina Pizzolitto -- Chapter 9. Latin America : terrorism issues / Mark P. Sullivan -- Short commentary. Linguistic and cultural challenges in the bilingual community : empirical and applied perspectives / Jeanette Altarriba and Marilyn Dabady Lynk