Latin America is a source of cultural content for many writers. On several occasions writers have managed to capture aspects of Latin American reality in their texts. Among those aspects is the violence that has been experienced in all Latin American countries. To mention some, examples we can mention the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez and the story The Slaughterhouse by Esteban Echevarría. For that reason, this year the core topic of our journal is literature and violence in Latin America.

The thematic core section is composed by two articles. The first one is a contribution by Jorge Andrés Cárdenas Santamaría and is entitled: "Overview of the literature on Colombian armed conflict during the 20th and 21st centuries. Considerations about its development and narrative evolution". This article seeks to recognize how war has been narrated and depicted in literary texts and what has been the role of the characters who directly suffer the violent act in such productions. The second article is a product of Yesid Niño Arteaga which is entitled: " Violence in rural town and the modern city: Blood and street in the literary works by Álvaro Cepeda Samudio and Rafael Chaparro Madiedo". This paper expresses how the sociocultural context can be problematized by the words of literature.

The perspective research section opens with two philosophical articles. The first article deals with spirituality in a secularized world. The article is entitled: "Emotional integrity. How to be spiritual in a skeptical world " and its authors are José Edwin Cué-llar Saavedra, Alejandra Molano Bustacara and Miguel Ángel Pérez Jiménez. In the next article entitled: "The imaginative narrative as a way of accessing to solidarity. An educational proposal from pragmatism and neopragmatism", author Martha Pati-ño raises the need to recognize the forms of narrative present in educational processes, and presents the need for integration in a more subtle and education-oriented sensitivity for solidarity.

Subsequently, there are two articles that focus on art addressed from its relationship with the political. On one hand since the post-dictatorship period in Chile, the arrival of Latin American communities has generated a progressive transformation in the migration pattern. In the article "Latin American migrant musics in Chile: diaspo-ric identities and cultural mixing", authors Marisol Facuse Muñoz and Rodrigo Torres Alvarado propose to understand the impact of the cultural production of immigrants in our identities, sociabilities and imaginaries. On the other hand the author Marina Adamini in her work "Artistic activism as a new trade union tool of young precarious workers in Argentina" intends to reflect on the new forms of collective action established by the young precarious workers in Argentina against the limitations of traditional trade unionism to channel their struggles; as is artistic activism.

To close, we have three articles that have a socio-political focus. The first on the community, the second on the political participation of women and the last one on the evolution of literature. The first article is a contribution by Javier Alexander Molina Correa. This one is titled: "Geese flying in a V shape: community building, defensible space and collective efficacy in a neighborhood of Cali, Colombia". This paper seeks to explore the experience of the neighborhood "Marco Fidel Suarez", one of the communities with fewer deaths in the city thanks to strategies such as voluntary enclosure through the installation of fences in strategic points, regulation of entry and exit of residents in addition to activities designed and implemented by the Community Action Board in order to manage a peaceful coexistence. The second article is entitled: " Between gender quotas and political violence: progress and setbacks in political representation of women in Mexico". The authors, Karolina M. Gilas and Alma Verónica Méndez Pacheco aim to explain, on the one hand, the positive impact of the judicialization of politics in Mexico on the political representation of women and, at the same time, the relationship between these measures and political violence against women. Finally, Rubén José Pérez Redondo proposes his article "Evolution of western literature from a sociological context. From Classical Greece to Baroque", in which he intends to make a sociological analysis of the evolution of western literature until the 17th century, before the events of modern literature.