Panama: Reagan's Last Stand
UnpublishedJuly/August
1988
Volume:
22
Number:
4
Report
POLITICIANS SPECIALIZE IN TRANSFORM- ing complex world problems into symbolic bogey- men to scare up the vote. In this year's presidential campaign, no demon has proven more successful than Gen.
Article
John Dinges
MANUEL "TONY" NORIEGA ROSE TO POW- er at an opportune time in Central America, and Noriega is nothing if not a compleat opportunist. The available evidence paints Panama of the 1980s as a Casablanca of profiteering and intrigue in which Nori- ega, for a time, played a masterful balancing act, doing the bidding and receiving the gratitude (if not also the gratuities) of drug traffickers and the U.
The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective by Walter LaFeber. Oxford University Press, 1978, 248 pp.
John M. Zindar
"THE ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED FROM . all of this is how much I have come to hate the United States.
Jane Hunter
The noise of Western doors slam- ming in South Africa's face has drawn attention away from Latin America, where several doors have remained quietly ajar. While the re- gion's governments have not gener- ally welcomed the apartheid regime as an official ally-most do not even host a South African mission-this has not stopped many from establish- ing economic and military ties.
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Dukakis, Kennedy and El Che DOZENS OF LATIN AMERICA'S POLITICIANS made their quadrennial pilgrimage to the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta this past July. They hoped to shake the right hands hard enough to be remembered sometime down the road when they or their parties come to power.
Raúl Leis
PANAMA'S POLITICAL CRISIS IS HARDLY A revolutionary one. It is a dispute among elites which in no way challenges the status quo for the poor majority.
John Dillon
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in January by Canada and the United States has profound implications for the entire hemisphere. Due to be implemented January 1, 1989, it goes beyond mandating free trade in goods.