Agribusiness Targets Latin America
UnpublishedJanuary/February
1978
Volume:
12
Number:
1
Updates
Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn
Millions of people around the world shook their heads in disbelief this January as Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet staged a nation-wide vote to determine whether or not the Chilean people support his regime's policies. The announcement of the January 4 referendum was made on December 1, one week after the United Nations' strongest condemnation yet of the Chilean dictatorship's ".
Laurie Coyle & Emily Honig & Gail Hershatter
With nearly 50 percent of all from the unionized northeast, U.S.
Guatemala News and Information Bureau (GNIB)
During the last year Guatemalans have increased their efforts to organize themselves- to defend their rights, to protest existing working and living conditions, and above all to demand an end to the ever-escalating tide of official and semi-official repression. Recent events that began as isolated strikes, work stoppages, student demonstrations or spontaneous takeovers, have quickly mobilized unprecedented popular support and taken on a generalized political character.
Dominican Republic Task Force Newsletter, No.5 ,ovember 1977
The evidence continues to mount that a bloody trail of terrorist actions, including the assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C.
NACLA-West Mexico project.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, obsessed with the fear of "communist domination" in Mexico, is engaged in a campaign of espionage, infiltration, provocation and terrorism north and south of our 2,000-mile southern border. FBI documents obtained recently through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that...
NACLA
One of the ongoing debates among analysts of the structure and dynamics of U.S. capitalism has been the question of who owns and controls the giant companies which dominate the economy. Until now...
LATIN AMERICA Shelton K. Davis, Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil, Cambridge Univ.
Report
Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn
In 1959, the Cuban Revolution startled the U.S. government into realizing that the seething poverty of Latin America's peasant masses
could cause socialist revolutions to sweep through the continent.
Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn
Production in the food processing industry is highly internationalized. Brand names like Quaker Oats, Del Monte and Pillsbury are household words not only in the United States but also in Western Europe and in many parts of the third world.
Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn
Well over a century ago, Cyrus McCormick helped change the face of U.S.
Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn
"You believe perhaps, gentlemen," said Karl Marx in 1848, "that the production of coffee and sugar is the natural destiny of the West Indies. Two centuries ago, nature, which does not trouble herself about commerce, had planted neither sugarcane nor coffee trees there.
Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn
The following chart is based on a study of the foreign investments of the 33 largest U.S.