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A Growing Movement: Latin American Feminism
Jill Gay
A powerful new political force is on the horizon in Latin America. In recent years, religious, labor and human rights movements have spearheaded efforts for grassroots participation in the political pro- cess.
A Guide to Basics
Foreign policy is the web of guidelines and plans that a government weaves to manage its relations with the rest of the world. In U.
Containment and the Third World
In his address to the United Nations in Sep- tember 1983, President Reagan-echoing John Foster Dulles-urged the world to choose sides between the United States and the Soviet Union: "The members of the United Nations must be aligned on the side ofjustice rather than injustice, peace rather than aggression, human dignity rather than subjugation."' However well this Manichean view of the world may have served to structure U.
Costa Rica: See Saw Diplomacy
Marc Edelman
There was much snickering when government posters cropped up all over San Jos6 shortly be- fore Reagan's arrival last Decem- ber. Despite the worst economic crisis in Costa Rica's history, the Monge Administration paid for thousands of colorful posters of Reagan towering over the diminu- tive, rotund Monge in the White House Rose Garden.
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The World in a Funhouse Mirror
When the Reagan Administration took office in January 1981, U.S.
Venezuelan Elections: Madison Avenue Style
Gloria Lacava
Venezuelans are preparing to go to the polls on December 4 to elect their sixth consecutive presi- dent since overthrowing the dic- tator Marcos P&rez Jim6nez in 1958. Democracy does not come cheaply here.
Visions of America
Since the beginning, U.S.