The paper analyzes some political, economic and cultural characteristic features of Spain and Latin-Caribbean America. The author traces a possible policy of Spain and Latin-Caribbean America towards challenges of global civilization.

The paper deals with the analysis of the modernization of the education in Mexico in terms of technological progress and the development of innovations: the educational reform (2013) and the negative attitude towards it of the civil society, protests and mutual searching for conflict resolution based on the formation of a new education model

The article highlights the factors and the circumstances which brought to power in Argentina a notable businessman M. Macri, who is also famous for his right-centrist views. The article reveals the essence of political changes which are taking place in this country.

This article analyzes the current state policy of Chile to overcome crime. It is noted that the study of public opinion regarding the personal experience of the people, demonstrating the improvement of the security situation (public and private) for the last 10 years (since 2005). However, the respondents’ perception of security problems has become much more negative, which is associated with the general deterioration of these indicators in the region, as well as a keen attitude of Chilean society to social inequality, which is considered one of the main factors for the growth of crime. Special attention is given to special programs to ensure public safety, and various governmentalpractices of the fight against crime, including the interaction of the police with civil society organizations.

The article deals with the reflections on the concept of the “right” and the “left” in Latin America, on the causes and characteristics of the completion of the “leftist cycle” and the advent of the “right turn”.

The article aims to study some important features of the Brazilian political culture. The article focuses on the concept of the “inertial democracy” elaborated by one of its authors, Marcello Baquero. With the purpose to discover the reasons of the disappointment of the Brazilians towards the politics the authors analyze the most significant points of the Brazilian political formation and give their conclusions.

The article deals with the analysis of the formation of the Russian-Chilean relations and the contacts between the both countries in the XIX-XX centuries

The regional financial architecture of Latin America is in the focus of this article, from the author’s point of view. There are intergovernmental and hybrid multilateral financial institutions which provide finance within official development assistance. IADB, CDB and CABEI present the first type of financing, while BLADEX and CAF are cofinancing type in discussion. Hence, their practices and credit portfolios are analyzed to emphasis specific. The Latin America Reserve Fund (FLAR) has been created to cushion liquidity in case of sudden stops in capital flows and trade deficit.

In South America in the 1960s and 1970s the contradictions of economic, social and political structures were deepening. In order to surmount the structural crisis the different political forces, tendencies and governments elaborated various strategies. These attempts aiming at reorganizing the society led to undermining the hegemony of ruling governing block and radical transformation of state apparatus. Progressive and regressi-ve forms of military dictatorship and excepcional states of the new militarism appeared on the continent because of the Brazilian military takeover of April, 1964. Formally these state systems were set up by the institutional takeover of the armed forces. The military governments strove for the total reorganization and modernization of the societies in their all - economic, political and ideological - territories. The study aims at analizing the diffe-rent models of modernization during the past sixty years.

This article studies the discussions and interpretations existing in Spain today about the political nature of the electoral coalition known as the Popular Front. In addition to presenting the debates, the article explains the process of formation of the Popular Front

The article gives an account of the directions of the South American Defense Council activities, analyses the level of UNASUR member-states` participation into political and military cooperation, defines military threats, evaluates the development of the cooperation of South American states in the near future

The article focuses on the peculiarities of the Latin American and Caribbean participation in the international trading system. The author analyzes bound and applied tariff levels in Latin America established when joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) and lists the reasons why the international trading system and the WTO in particular are crucial to Latin American countries. In this light the article investigates the phenomenon of megaregional agreements and reviews the risks they pose to Latin America and to the international trading system in general.

The article analyses extraregional aspects of Uruguay’s foreign policy during the presidency of José Mujica (2010-2015), namely the development of relations between Uruguay and the USA, the European Union, Russia and countries of Asia and Middle East such as China, India, Iran, Palestine and Israel. This aspect of Uruguayan foreign policy is particularly relevant amid the crisis in Mercosur, when Uruguay is trying to mitigate its adverse consequences for the country’s economy by expanding trade ties with the other countries, both within Latin America and beyond it. The relations between Uruguay and Latin American countries are touched upon in some investigations while Uruguay’s active foreign policy in other regions isn’t studied at all

The article offers an inquiry into the development of indigenous political movements in Latin America in 1990-2000, presents the analysis of the political culture of traditional communities as well as analyzes the correlation between the political strategies adopted by ethnic movements and the effectiveness of the political participation of indigenous communities in several Latin America countries.

The article analyses three basic themes in the peace negotiations between the government of Colombia and the FARC: agrarian question, political participation and drug-trafficking. The article deals with the state of these problems presented in the historic perspective and with some variants of its resolution included into the Final agreement with the FARC. The author attempts to evaluate these agreements and to explain the declining of the agreement in the referendum (2016) for its approval.

The article dwells upon the political and juridical analysis of the territorial dispute between Bolivia and Chile. There was conducted the analysis of Bolivian lawsuit against Chile in the International Court of Justice, were pointed out the peculiarities of the case, were subjected to analysis the positions of the two countries towards the dispute The author makes conclusions about the prospects of resolution of the dispute and its contribution to the international law

Thе article discusses the role of the top Latin American countries in the international flows of capital and its investment attractiveness. The emphasis is made on the role of the countries in international capital flows and the relationship between Russia and Latin America in terms of investment. The analysis revealed that Latin America is becoming to play more important role nowadays on the world economic map than it used to be. Many countries are increasing their investments in Latin America despite the fact that there are a lot of difficulties which deal with the level and the pace of the economic growth and development in this region

The article deals with the problems of the organized crime in Perú and its causes. Are issued the problems of narcotrafic, corruption, violence and such new types of crime as ciberfraud.