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DEMOCRATIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT are firmly on Mexico's agenda, due to the pro- found economic and social crisis facing the nation. But questions of democracy are always conditioned by the U.

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"IF I OVERDRAW MY ACCOUNT AT THE bank, the bank charges me. When those in power overdraw on their accounts, they ask all of us to pay.
Chris Norton
On October 10, buses filled with the first of over 4,500 refugees from the Mesa Grande camp in Honduras started rolling over the Salvadorean border. Mostly peasants who had fled Army operations in rebel-dominated areas, the refugees were going home for the first time after up to seven years in the camp.
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Robin Kirk
The walk to Chincho is hot and long, through the sprawl of buildings, food stands and open lots fringing Lima's busy Central Highway. Further outside the city, the road is empty.
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Reggae and Government Propaganda IN LATE OCTOBER, THE GOVERNMENT OF Belize announced it had dropped criminal libel charges against the editor of The Belize Times, published by the opposition People's United Party (PUP). Yet with multi- ple civil libel suits pending against Belize Times and the young Fleet Street-educated editor, Amalia Mai, it seemed the government's move may signal only a hiatus in its efforts to stifle criticism.
THE MEXICAN STATE WAS BORN OF REVO- lution. One out of eight Mexicans-some 2 mil- lion people-were killed between 1910 and 1917 when millions in the countryside, in the mines, in the textile mills rose up against the 34-year dictatorship of Por- firio Diaz.
IN 1982 MEXICO'S ECONOMY CEASED TO grow for the first time since the 1930s, shattering the promise of a second economic miracle based on oil. Political stability in Mexico has always depended on sustained economic growth; without it, the entire sys- tem was thrown into crisis.
Holly Burkhalter
Since the mid-1970s, the U.S.