Resource Update

September 25, 2007

LATIN AMERICA

Shelton K. Davis, Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil, Cambridge Univ. Press, 205 pp., $4.95.

Chris Welch, Bolivar Publications, Introduction to Chile: A Cartoon History, NICH, Box 800, Berkeley, CA 94701; 24 pp., $1.

Sergio Alvear & Ulises Pinto, Chile: Un Nuevo Modelo de Acumulacion - Analisis de la Estrategia Economica de la Junta Militar, Ediciones ABC,
Madrid.

Colin Henfrey & Bernardo Sorj, Chilean Voices: Activists Describe Their Experiences of the Popular Unity Period, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716, 196 pp.

Trade Union and Human Rights in Chile and Bolivia: Report of the National Union of Mine-workers Delegation, NUM Intl.Dept., 222 Euston Rd., London NW1, 20 pp., $1.

Unity Gave Us Victory: Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba to the First Congress, Havana, 446 pp.

Recent Developments in Mexico and Their Economic Implications for the United States, Hearings before Subcommittee on Inter-American Relations of Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, January 1977, 401 pp.

Richard Millett, Guardian of the Dynasty, Orbis Books, Mary-knoll, NY 10545, $6.95. On the formation of the National Guard and the Somoza family.

The Republic of Nicaragua: An Amnesty International Report, Amnesty, 3618 Sacramento St., San Francisco, CA 94118, 75 pp., $2.

Puerto Rico: The Flame of Resistance, Peoples Press, Box 40130, San Francisco, CA 94110, 180 pp., many photos, $3.50.

The Programa Centroamericano de Ciencias Sociales has published a variety of studies including theses on the labor movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and a document on the work force in the banana
industry. Write for publications list to CSUCA, Ciudad Universitaria, San Jose, Costa Rica.

EPICA (1470 Irving St., Washington, DC 20010) has two new studies: Puerto Rico: A People Challenging Colonialism, $3 including postage; and Treaty for Us, Treaty for Them: Two Analyses of the Panama Canal
Treaties, 22 pp., $1.50 including postage.

INDUSTRY AND INVESTMENT STUDIES
Cynthia Arnson & William Goodfellow, OPIC: Insuring the Status Ouo, International Policy Report available from Center for International Policy, 120 Maryland Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002. Critical analysis of government's insurance program for foreign investors.

Jamie Swift & The Development Education Center, The Big Nickel: Inco at Home and Abroad, Between the Lines, 97 Victoria St. North, Kitchener,
Ont., Canada, 173 pp.

Joel Andreas, Boycott Coors, Coors Boycott & Strike Support Coalition, 737 East 17th Ave., Denver, CO 80203, a 10-page comic book by the author of NACLA's Incredible Rocky comic, 0.50$.

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, The Soviet Union and International Oil Politics, Columbia Univ. Press, 389 pp., $16.50.

Howard Wachtel, The New Gnomes: Multinational Banks in the Third World, Transnational Institute / IPS, 1901 Q St. NW, Washington, DC 20009, 60
pp., $3.

Two recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee reports on the third world debt crisis: International Debt, The Banks and U.S. Foreign Policy, 69 pp.; Bretton Woods Agreements Amendments Act of 1977, 35 pp.

MILITARY/POLICE/CIA

David Atlee Phillips, The Night Watch, Atheneum, $9.95, by the former CIA Chief of Latin American Operations.

Michael Klare, Supplying Repression, Field Foundation, 100 East 85th St., New York, NY 10028, 56 pp., 0.50$. The export of U.S. repressive technology and training to the third world.

Steven Lydenberg, Weapons for the Third World: U.S. Corporate Role in International Arms Transfers, Council on Economic Priorities, 84 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011, 72 pp.

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