Misiones Religiosas en el Oriente del Ecuador: una Aproximación Histórica a la Actual Provincia de Napo

The collection of articles comprising this work was made possible thanks to a public call to researchers, professors, and the academic community in Latin America and the Caribbean to reflect on the processes shaping history, memory, and identities in different Latin American contexts. As a result of these reflections, today we present the book Histories, Memories, and Identities in Latin America. This compilation consists of 14 articles that are the result of research processes that the authors have developed in their countries. They contain important reflections intended to bring the reader closer to long-term discussions for the understanding, discussion, and reflection of social and cultural contexts, whose particularities have led them to synthesize an interest in history, memory, and identity in contexts marked by sociocultural complexity and political tension. This work is composed of two volumes: the first contains seven articles from Mexico and Central America; the second contains seven articles from South America. Volume I begins with the article "Memory as Cultural Heritage in El Salvador: From Destruction and Rejection to Acceptance and Preservation," by Georgina Magaly Barrientos de Castellón, which addresses collective memory as a common heritage that can be cherished or rejected. Its appreciation stems from an awareness of its value, as well as its positive or negative impact on the imagination or ideology of those who inherit it. This article is based on ongoing research, refers to Salvadoran memory as a heritage exposed to this ambivalence, and shows how, due to its collective nature, it demands special attention as a long-standing debt and an urgent need. To this end, it explores the meaning of historical heritage, the damage caused by ignorance, destruction, and disinterest; the relationship between heritage and memory; and the way in which the debate on its conservation has been addressed in El Salvador. Mirella Guadalupe Hernández Ramírez writes "Culture of Peace and Memory Processes in El Salvador: Women, Participation, and Citizenship." This article reflects on the recognition of women's participation in El Salvador's civil war. It analyzes how the spaces of armed conflict reproduce and perpetuate values of patriarchal culture, constructing subjectivities that naturalize stereotypical gender views, limiting the recognition of women's leadership and the contributions they made during the armed struggle and the formation of the Peace Accords. The article "Memories of Violence in Neoliberal El Salvador: Women of Yancolo and Their Battles for Life," by Jacquelin Durán Fernández, reflects on El Salvador as a historical and sociocultural setting characterized by the construction of oppressive class and ethnicity policies that have fostered racism, land dispossession, displacement, the denial of indigenous populations, and a political-military conflict that, since the late 1970s and 1980s, claimed more than 70,000 lives. In the soci.