This paper explores the relationship between wages and foreign investment in Mexico, Venezuela, United States. Despite very different economic conditions levels of development, we find one fact which is robust across all three countries: higher are associated with wages. In Mexico was only for foreign-owned firms -- there no evidence wage spillovers leading to domestic firms. States spillovers....

We are writing to comment on the article by Arraga-Alvarado and others in the September 2014 issue of The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 1 To provide some necessary background information about the early recognition of ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis in Venezuela, we would like to bring to the attention of the manuscript's authors and readers an article published by de Tamí an...

The arboreal, Neotropical lizard Plica plica (Linnaeus, 1758) has been long considered a widespread species with a distribution east of the Andes. A preliminary examination of 101 specimens from about 28 locations mostly north of the Amazon suggests that Plica plica is a cryptic species complex with taxa that can be distinguished on the basis of the number of scale rows at mid-body; the arrange...

BACKGROUND The subtype diversity of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes is unknown in Venezuela. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Partial sequencing of the NS5B region was performed in 310 isolates circulating in patients from 1995 to 2007. In the samples collected between 2005 and 2007, HCV genotype 1 (G1) was the most common genotype (63%), composed as expected of mainly G1a and G1b. G2 was...

The Andean Countries' Initiative (ACI) for controlling Chagas disease was officially created in 1997 within the framework of the Hipolito Unanue Agreement (UNANUE) between the Ministries of Health of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its objective was to interrupt transmission via vector and transfusion in the region, taking into account that there are 12.5 million people at risk in the f...

Transnational illicit activities, in addition to the unbridled greed for mineral resources, strongly impact Amazonian territories extending from Orinoco Mining Arc Venezuela northern Brazil, aggravating problems of environmental impacts and border security, due groups armed forces that protect explorers. In Venezuela, megabandas joined political elite controls gold mining, as well members Colom...