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Manillo Argueta
In a certain way, those who died won this war, while those who survived still seem to be living a dream in which helicopters have become ambulances, and cannons and bombs have ceased to disturb the silence of night. After almost 20 years in exile, I have returned to my country.
Julie Feinsilver
Castro has repeatedly stated since 1961 that Cuba's future must be one of scientists, and that Cuba must not only take advantage of the scientific- technical revolution, but also be a part of it. H avana's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biology (CIGB) is perhaps the most technologically sophisticated sci- entific research facility in the Third World.
Saul Landau
In Cuba, Castro has publicly praised the new president. Privately, he had a friend ask Jimmy Carter to relay the message to Clinton that he would refrain from making provocative comments about the new president for at least his first year in office and hoped that Carter would advise Clinton to do likewise.
Roger Burbach
As the Clinton Administration settles into But this focus on individuals ignores the underlying office, the changeover from the Reagan-Bush continuity in foreign policy in the transition from the years seems to mark a turning point in U.S.
Kate Doyle
Clinton will have to confront the very logic that drives drug-control strategy in this country: that the solution to domestic drug abuse lies not at home, but elsewhere. This is the logic that produced a war.
Cecilia Muñoz
Though elected officials are reluctant to admit it, migration policy is a persistent issue with strategic implications. It is intimately connected to the nation's foreign, economic and labor policies.
Robert Self
The INS tried to turn administrative errors into a conspiracy to defraud, attacking two organizations that have operated with unimpeachable legal records in Seattle for nearly a decade. Two unmarked sedans cruised past Miguel Orozco-Delgado as he was walking his chil- dren home from school in early January of last year.
The appointments of Anthony Lake as National Security Council Adviser and Richard Feinberg as the Council's officer on Latin American affairs are among the best ever made to these posts. Both have largely non-dogmatic positions, both opposed hard- line interventionist policies when they worked in the State Department in the 1970s, and both used their years out of power to criticize Reagan policies and to rethink their own positions.
I am writing in response to the "Taking Note" column entitled "A Question of Solidarity" in the December issue of NACLA Report on the Americas [Vol. XXVI, No.
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz and Augusto Varas, Universi- ty of North Carolina Press, 1992, 328 pp., $39.
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The Fate of the Ejido Raul Palma Matamoros, a robust man in his late 40s, walks me around his recent- ly planted ejido fields in Vicencio, about an hour's drive from the city of Puebla, in central Mexico. It's late March, and some of the fields have been planted with corn and beans, while others have just been tilled and are awaiting seeding.
Somewhere in the confluence of ambition, inertia, perceived interests and ideology, the Clinton Administration will spend the next few years crafting-and maintaining-a relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean. And as that relation- ship is crafted, new opportunities may emerge for progressive forces in the hemisphere.