Ronn Pineo
Biographic Data
| ID | 701921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronn Pineo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronn |
| FAMILY NAME | Pineo |
| SIGNATURE | PINEO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5215-9685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mexico’s Failing Healthcare System: The Past and Present of Healthcare and Public Health in Mexico
It is hard to understand why some areas within Mexico show some of the hemisphere’s worst health metrics, given that Mexico is one of the most economically advanced nations within the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC). The health situation within Mexico is very uneven, with generally better overall health conditions in the industrialized north of Mexico and considerably worse in the regions where Indigenous people make their homes. This e…
The Young Democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean
The young democracies of Latin America and the Caribbean, mostly all dating from the 1980s, can provide examples and inspiration for democracies elsewhere, positive models worthy of emulation. But if this is welcome news, all the developments from the region regarding the fate of its democracies are not good. Latin America and the Caribbean democracies are today facing several challenges that are both novel and serious. This essay offers an overa…
Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Special Focus on Perú, México, and Cuba
This essay offers a summary of the impact of COVID-19 and efficacy of the responses in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on Perú, México, and Cuba. Because so much has already been written on COVID-19, the goal of this article is to move beyond what has already been said, providing a briefing on what has been most unusual and counter-intuitive regarding the pandemic in the region. Focusing on Perú, México, and Cuba allows t…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Caribbean
Second Special Issue on Pandemics: Concluding Comments
Introduction to the First Special Issue on Pandemics
This issue of the Journal of Developing Societies is the first of two special issues addressing key pandemic developments from around the world. This issue focuses on COVID-19, especially looking at the impact on developing societies. The articles analyze events in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Norway, South Asia, China, and the Philippines
Four Flu Pandemics: Lessons that Need to Be Learned
This article explores the history of influenza, focusing on the four major flu pandemics in the last century and a half, outbreaks starting in 1889, 1918, 1957, and 1968. The article looks closely at flu etiology and the historical puzzles over which flu subtype was responsible for each major outbreak. Some mysteries regarding pandemic influenza remain, with core questions stubbornly refusing to yield answers. This article seeks to explore the hi…
Second Special Issue on Pandemics: Introduction
Pandemics; influenza; yellow fever; Guatemala; Ecuador; COVID-19, Malaysia; Sub-Sahara Africa
Immigration Crisis: The United States Under President Donald J. Trump
Rising crime, homicide, economic despair, infant mortality. The common narrative of the situation in the Northern Triangle nations of Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, points to these grim circumstances to explain the exodus of families leaving for America. But it is not the case that conditions have worsened there in recent years; the best available data show improvement in many socioeconomic measures. This article draws upo…
Preface to the 2019 Special Issue on Public Healthcare in the Developing World
This special edition of the Journal of Developing Societies offers a sampling from the best of recent scholarship on public healthcare issues from around the world. While there exist several good studies that access the damage that came to public healthcare in the 1980s and 1990s, the time of the free market or neoliberal policies, it is time now to take a fresh look. This special issue takes up several vital issues in global public health, with …
Conclusions
Cuban Public Healthcare: A Model of Success for Developing Nations
This article assesses Cuban healthcare, not just for Cubans but also for those who receive the care of Cuban health professionals working worldwide. The article offers three main points: first, Cuba is an anomaly, a poor nation that has very good public healthcare; second, Cuba’s reported infant mortality rates are probably too good to be true; third, Cuba’s public healthcare system, all in all, provides a strong example of progress, an inspirati…
Progress in Bolivia: Declining the United States Influence and the Victories of Evo Morales
This article provides an assessment of economic and social progress in Bolivia under Evo Morales. An examination of the leading factors that explain Bolivia’s turn to the left is offered, focusing on how the US policies and actions contributed to the collapse of the old regime. The social and economic policy directions since Morales assumed office is presented, followed by a discussion of the process of creating a Bolivian understanding of democr…
The Free Market Experiment in Latin America: Moving Beyond Past Policies to Search for a Pathway Forward
This article examines the performance of neoliberal economic policies in Latin America over the last several decades. Scrutiny is given to growth, development, inequality, poverty, and social concerns. Recent evidence is brought to bear in evaluating the efficacy of neoliberalism with respect to these matters. Following the work of Henry Bruton, the article offers a reconsideration of the conventional critique of prior import substitution industr…
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America
In a special address to the US Congress two months into his administration, President John F. Kennedy announced a bold new vision for US – Latin American relations, the Alliance for Progress. At meetings with Latin American leaders in Uruguay later that year, the United States promised to provide $20 billion in aid over the next ten years. Despite high expectations, “the program was not a success” (p. 5). As Chilean president Eduardo Frei would p…
Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900 - 1950
Despite the title, this volume actually deals more with public health than with political change, and this is probably a good thing given that the sections on public health are more convincingly argued than those on politics. A core goal of this book is to examine and evaluate the Bolivian public health-care situation from 1900 to 1950. The author identifies key health concerns, analyzes their social and economic origins, and assesses the progres…
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to Aids
Diseases are “social constructions” (p. 2), editor Diego Armus says, “the biomedical . . . shaped as much by human subjectivity as by objective facts” (p. 6). The case studies in this collection proceed from this outlook, focusing on what some people have said and thought about various diseases in Latin American history.Nancy Stepan explores the antimalaria campaigns in early-twentieth-century Bra-zil to consider why health officials take a keen …
Diversiones y juegos populares: Formas de sociabilidad y crítica social, Colchagua, 1850-1880
This brief book looks at what the people of Colchagua, a rural province in central Chile, did for recreation in the mid-nineteenth century. The author relies principally on the reports of local political officials, but Purcell Torretti also uses newspapers, travel accounts, and novels.The people of Colchagua liked to spend time in chinganas (bars or small inns), play cards, dice, and bolos (a game with mallets and balls something like croquette),…
Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes
Latin America in the 1980s was marked by the transition to democracy and a turn toward economic orthodoxy. Unsettling Statecraft analyzes this transition in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, focusing on the political dynamics underlying change and the many disturbing tendencies at work as these countries shed military authoritarianism for civilian rule. Conaghan and Malloy draw on insights from the political economy literature, viewing policy making as…
Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes
The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development
Paita, Outpost of Empire: The Impact of the New England Whaling Fleet on the Socioeconomic Development of Northern Peru, 1832-1865
Soberanía e insurrección en Manabí
Nueva historia del Ecuador. Vol. 7. Epoca republicana I. El Ecuador: 1830-1895
Response to Robert Jackson
In my view, historians have long given scant notice to the topics of health care and disease, matters that actually deserve muclh attention. Robert Jackson rightly calls for a fuller understanding of the causes and responses to health conditions and has highlliglted several themes, especially poverty and underdevelopment, for miore discussion. I welcome the opportunity to further open up this topic, first by offering some additional observations …
Misery and Death in the Pearl of the Pacific: Health Care in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1870-1925
IN 1875, U.S. Consul Charles Weile requested a leave of absence from his post in Guayaquil, due to the rapidly approaching rainy, sickly Guayaquil winter. When the State Department denied Weile's request, he quit. He proved difficult to replace. Richard McAllister, Jr., politely refused the post, citing the city's poor health reputation. Alexander McLean took the job, but he soon asked for a transfer. In explaining, he wrote, I have had the fever…
Cuban Public Healthcare: A Model of Success for Developing Nations
This article assesses Cuban healthcare, not just for Cubans but also for those who receive the care of Cuban health professionals working worldwide. The article offers three main points: first, Cuba is an anomaly, a poor nation that has very good public healthcare; second, Cuba’s reported infant mortality rates are probably too good to be true; third, Cuba’s public healthcare system, all in all, provides a strong example of progress, an inspirati…
Reinterpreting Labor Militancy: The Collapse of the Cacao Economy and the General Strike of 1922 in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ronn F. Pineo, Reinterpreting Labor Militancy: The Collapse of the Cacao Economy and the General Strike of 1922 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Nov., 1988), pp. 707-736
Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean with a Special Focus on Perú, México, and Cuba
This essay offers a summary of the impact of COVID-19 and efficacy of the responses in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on Perú, México, and Cuba. Because so much has already been written on COVID-19, the goal of this article is to move beyond what has already been said, providing a briefing on what has been most unusual and counter-intuitive regarding the pandemic in the region. Focusing on Perú, México, and Cuba allows t…
Four Flu Pandemics: Lessons that Need to Be Learned
This article explores the history of influenza, focusing on the four major flu pandemics in the last century and a half, outbreaks starting in 1889, 1918, 1957, and 1968. The article looks closely at flu etiology and the historical puzzles over which flu subtype was responsible for each major outbreak. Some mysteries regarding pandemic influenza remain, with core questions stubbornly refusing to yield answers. This article seeks to explore the hi…
Reinterpreting Labor Militancy: The Collapse of the Cacao Economy and the General Strike of 1922 in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ronn F. Pineo, Reinterpreting Labor Militancy: The Collapse of the Cacao Economy and the General Strike of 1922 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Nov., 1988), pp. 707-736
La conquista del voto: De Velasco a Roldos
La conquista del voto: De Velasco a Roídos
Misery and Death in the Pearl of the Pacific: Health Care in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1870-1925
IN 1875, U.S. Consul Charles Weile requested a leave of absence from his post in Guayaquil, due to the rapidly approaching rainy, sickly Guayaquil winter. When the State Department denied Weile's request, he quit. He proved difficult to replace. Richard McAllister, Jr., politely refused the post, citing the city's poor health reputation. Alexander McLean took the job, but he soon asked for a transfer. In explaining, he wrote, I have had the fever…
Nueva historia del Ecuador. Vol. 7. Epoca republicana I. El Ecuador: 1830-1895
Response to Robert Jackson
In my view, historians have long given scant notice to the topics of health care and disease, matters that actually deserve muclh attention. Robert Jackson rightly calls for a fuller understanding of the causes and responses to health conditions and has highlliglted several themes, especially poverty and underdevelopment, for miore discussion. I welcome the opportunity to further open up this topic, first by offering some additional observations …
Nueva historia del Ecuador
Soberanía e insurrección en Manabí
Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes
Latin America in the 1980s was marked by the transition to democracy and a turn toward economic orthodoxy. Unsettling Statecraft analyzes this transition in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, focusing on the political dynamics underlying change and the many disturbing tendencies at work as these countries shed military authoritarianism for civilian rule. Conaghan and Malloy draw on insights from the political economy literature, viewing policy making as…
Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes
The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development
Paita, Outpost of Empire: The Impact of the New England Whaling Fleet on the Socioeconomic Development of Northern Peru, 1832-1865
Diversiones y juegos populares: Formas de sociabilidad y crítica social, Colchagua, 1850-1880
This brief book looks at what the people of Colchagua, a rural province in central Chile, did for recreation in the mid-nineteenth century. The author relies principally on the reports of local political officials, but Purcell Torretti also uses newspapers, travel accounts, and novels.The people of Colchagua liked to spend time in chinganas (bars or small inns), play cards, dice, and bolos (a game with mallets and balls something like croquette),…
Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to Aids
Diseases are “social constructions” (p. 2), editor Diego Armus says, “the biomedical . . . shaped as much by human subjectivity as by objective facts” (p. 6). The case studies in this collection proceed from this outlook, focusing on what some people have said and thought about various diseases in Latin American history.Nancy Stepan explores the antimalaria campaigns in early-twentieth-century Bra-zil to consider why health officials take a keen …
Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900 - 1950
Despite the title, this volume actually deals more with public health than with political change, and this is probably a good thing given that the sections on public health are more convincingly argued than those on politics. A core goal of this book is to examine and evaluate the Bolivian public health-care situation from 1900 to 1950. The author identifies key health concerns, analyzes their social and economic origins, and assesses the progres…
Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America
In a special address to the US Congress two months into his administration, President John F. Kennedy announced a bold new vision for US – Latin American relations, the Alliance for Progress. At meetings with Latin American leaders in Uruguay later that year, the United States promised to provide $20 billion in aid over the next ten years. Despite high expectations, “the program was not a success” (p. 5). As Chilean president Eduardo Frei would p…
The Free Market Experiment in Latin America: Moving Beyond Past Policies to Search for a Pathway Forward
This article examines the performance of neoliberal economic policies in Latin America over the last several decades. Scrutiny is given to growth, development, inequality, poverty, and social concerns. Recent evidence is brought to bear in evaluating the efficacy of neoliberalism with respect to these matters. Following the work of Henry Bruton, the article offers a reconsideration of the conventional critique of prior import substitution industr…
Progress in Bolivia: Declining the United States Influence and the Victories of Evo Morales
This article provides an assessment of economic and social progress in Bolivia under Evo Morales. An examination of the leading factors that explain Bolivia’s turn to the left is offered, focusing on how the US policies and actions contributed to the collapse of the old regime. The social and economic policy directions since Morales assumed office is presented, followed by a discussion of the process of creating a Bolivian understanding of democr…
Preface to the 2019 Special Issue on Public Healthcare in the Developing World
This special edition of the Journal of Developing Societies offers a sampling from the best of recent scholarship on public healthcare issues from around the world. While there exist several good studies that access the damage that came to public healthcare in the 1980s and 1990s, the time of the free market or neoliberal policies, it is time now to take a fresh look. This special issue takes up several vital issues in global public health, with …
Conclusions
Cuban Public Healthcare: A Model of Success for Developing Nations
This article assesses Cuban healthcare, not just for Cubans but also for those who receive the care of Cuban health professionals working worldwide. The article offers three main points: first, Cuba is an anomaly, a poor nation that has very good public healthcare; second, Cuba’s reported infant mortality rates are probably too good to be true; third, Cuba’s public healthcare system, all in all, provides a strong example of progress, an inspirati…
Immigration Crisis: The United States Under President Donald J. Trump
Rising crime, homicide, economic despair, infant mortality. The common narrative of the situation in the Northern Triangle nations of Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, points to these grim circumstances to explain the exodus of families leaving for America. But it is not the case that conditions have worsened there in recent years; the best available data show improvement in many socioeconomic measures. This article draws upo…
Second Special Issue on Pandemics: Concluding Comments
Introduction to the First Special Issue on Pandemics
This issue of the Journal of Developing Societies is the first of two special issues addressing key pandemic developments from around the world. This issue focuses on COVID-19, especially looking at the impact on developing societies. The articles analyze events in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Norway, South Asia, China, and the Philippines
Four Flu Pandemics: Lessons that Need to Be Learned
This article explores the history of influenza, focusing on the four major flu pandemics in the last century and a half, outbreaks starting in 1889, 1918, 1957, and 1968. The article looks closely at flu etiology and the historical puzzles over which flu subtype was responsible for each major outbreak. Some mysteries regarding pandemic influenza remain, with core questions stubbornly refusing to yield answers. This article seeks to explore the hi…
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