Ruben Urbizagastegui, a librarian from the UCR Library, Metadata Department, has published a paper with the title of: Analysis of El Niño Coastal phenomenon by the method of associated words (Ciência da Informação, v. 47, n. 3, Dic. 2018. http://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/view/4322).

This paper analyzes the news published in the newspapers La República and El Peruano in Lima-Peru, during the months of February to May 2017 about the “coastal child” phenomenon in an attempt to understand the context and political orientation of the news. The words within the textual body were analyzed as they appeared in each of the retrieved documents. The textual words were “read” with the help of the free software TextStat 3.0 and the construction of the keywords of the newspapers articles was done with the software Linguakit. The selected keywords were standardized and transferred to R a programming language tool focused on statistical analysis with the algorithm of the MPA package. It was found that the newspaper La República reported on matters of a general nature trying to cover all aspects of the phenomenon of “the coastal child”, while the newspaper El Peruano focused more on the matters linked to the responsibilities assumed by the governmental spheres. The proliferation of diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and leptospirosis, construction of shelters, provision of water and food, that is, words related to health emergencies as direct consequences of the phenomenon are absent from the news of both newspapers. After analyzing the news conveyed jointly in both daily newspapers, it is evident that the concerns focus on issues that say more about the spheres of power, that is, of those who control the power and from power impose the priority of their political interests, but showing little interest with the needs of the affected human beings. Matters linked to the dominated spheres are marginalized and weakly communicated.