Abstract This article presents an account of the political conditions and situations that took place throughout the world in 1968, particularly in the Latin American and Caribbean region. The author describes the political expressions interconnected with student and youth demonstrations that werw developing at that time. Also, fifty years after the 1968 events, their relative importance having transcended until today is highlighted.

Resumen En el trabajo se presenta un recuento de las situaciones y coyunturas políticas que durante el año trascendental de 1968 se manifestaron en el mundo y de manera particular en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Se exponen las expresiones políticas que estuvieron interconectadas en torno a las protestas estudiantiles y juveniles que se dieron en aquellos momentos. De la misma manera, a cincuenta años de los sucesos, se destaca la relativa importancia y trascendencia del 68 que ha llegado hasta nuestros días.

El presente trabajo trata sobre el exilio en México del escritor, periodista y poeta Alfonso Guillén Zelaya entre 1933 y 1947. Etapa significativa de la vida y obra del pensador hondureño, pero también de la historia mexicana y latinoamericana. En nuestro artículo hacemos mención a un periodo político y cultural de lo más representativo e impactante de nuestra América. Sobre Alfonso Guillén Zelaya se destaca su papel como pensador significativo de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Se trata de mostrar que su pensamiento fue originalmente crítico y como tal con un valor agregado a todo pensar filosófico que en nuestros días es necesario conocer y difundir.

This work deals with the exile of the writer, journalist and poet Alfonso Guillén Zelaya in Mexico between 1933 and 1947, an important stage in the life and work of this Honduran thinker as well as in Mexican and Latin American history. The article deals with one of the most representative and influential political and cultural periods in our America. The role of Alfonso Guillén Zelaya as an important thinker in the first half of the twentieth century is highlighted. The study tries to show that his thought was originally critical and as such gave added value to all philosophical thinking that should be known and disseminated in our days.

Abstract: This article presents a particular characterization of the so-called “Mexican Revolution” as a political phenomena of wide repercussions in the Latin-American countries during a large period of the XX century. This revolution, as any other transforming process, showed in general a substantial modification of the social and political structures of the Mexico of the beginnings of the XX century, but which had its own characteristics and elements in common with other revolutionary processes. In the same way, such revolution was the product of objective and subjective conditions in the frame of the development of national and international contradictions. In such a way that the so-called mexican revolution was an exceptional political fact, as is any revolution, which cast a stereotype in diverse orders: political, social and cultural of other Latin-American countries and actors.

Resumen: En este artículo se presenta una caracterización de la llamada Revolución Mexicana como un fenómeno político de amplias repercusiones en los países latinoamericanos durante buena parte del siglo XX. Revolución que, al igual que todo proceso transformador, mostró una sustancial modificación de las estructuras sociales y políticas del México de inicios del siglo XX, pero que, a su vez, tuvo sus propias características y elementos en común con otros procesos revolucionarios. De igual manera dicha revolución fue producto de condiciones objetivas y subjetivas en el marco de un desarrollo de las contradicciones nacionales e internacionales. De tal forma que la llamada Revolución Mexicana fue un hecho político excepcional, como lo es toda revolución, la cual tuvo una impronta en diversos órdenes: políticos, sociales y culturales en países y actores latinoamericanos.

Neste trabalho, pretende-se dar uma visão geral das características do narcotráfico como um fenômeno econômico, político e social na era da globalização. Mais ainda, pretende-se mostrar as novas dimensões do narcotráfico que, em nossos dias, converteram-se em um tema de preocupação de diversas economias da periferia mundial. Enfatiza-se o perfil que esse fenômeno alcança em sua expansão global e, em particular, em algumas nações latino-americanas e em outras regiões periféricas do mundo.

The article intends to bring an overview of the characteristics of the drug traffic, understood here as an economic, political, and social phenomenon at the age of globalization. Moreover, it intends to show the new dimensions of the drug traffic that nowadays have become an issue in many economies of the world periphery. The profile this phenomenon has acquired in its global expansion, and particularly in some Latin American and other world periphery areas nations is emphasized.