scholarly journals Airport Performance and Ownership Structure: Evidence from the United Kingdom, United States, and Latin America

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijan Vasigh ◽  
G. Rod Erfani ◽  
Brian W. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
The United Kingdom

Making Peaceful Revolution Impossible

2022 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-187
Author(s):  
Max Paul Friedman ◽  
Roberto García Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Alliance For Progress

Abstract President John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress was intended to forestall Communist revolutions by fostering political and economic reform in Latin America. But Kennedy undermined his own goals by thwarting democratic, leftwing leaders seeking to carry out the kind of “peaceful revolution” his own analysis told him was necessary. This article reveals the Kennedy administration's role in overthrowing the Guatemalan government in 1963—until now only hinted at or even denied in the existing literature—to prevent the return to power of the country's first democratically elected president, Juan José Arévalo Bermejo. New archival evidence from Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, and the United States sheds light on the transnational networks that supported Arévalo's attempt to run for the presidency in 1963, as well as the covert efforts of U.S. and Guatemalan officials to prevent “the most popular man in Guatemala” from taking office—a neglected Cold War milestone in Latin America.

scholarly journals A Comparative Discussion of the Judicial Disqualification of Directors under the South African Companies Act

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Rehana Cassim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
South African ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Locus Standi

Abstract Section 162 of the South African Companies Act 71 of 2008 empowers courts to declare directors delinquent and hence to disqualify them from office. This article compares the judicial disqualification of directors under this section with the equivalent provisions in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America, which have all influenced the South African act. The article compares the classes of persons who have locus standi to apply to court to disqualify a director from holding office, as well as the grounds for the judicial disqualification of a director, the duration of the disqualification, the application of a prescription period and the discretion conferred on courts to disqualify directors from office. It contends that, in empowering courts to disqualify directors from holding office, section 162 of the South African Companies Act goes too far in certain respects.

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