Rural Latin America: Wrestling With The Global Economy
UnpublishedNovember/December
1994
Volume:
28
Number:
3
Article
James Ferguson
While allegations of fixed elections are no longer as commonplace as they once were in Latin America, they remain par for the course in the Dominican Republic.
Marc Edelman
Peasant organizations exist throughout Central America, and vary in size, composition, and goals. Three campesino activists speak of their experiences, successes, and failures within these organizations.
Chile My compliments to Duncan Green ["The First Latin American Tiger?" July/August, 1994] for an excellent analysis of the Chilean economic process. Chile's program of "economic sta- bility in the transition to democra- cy" has meant continuity with Pinochet's economic policies, at great cost to most poor Chileans.
Lori Ann Thrupp
Growing global trade is bringing North American shoppers a year round supply of fresh mangos, artichokes, broccoli and roses, flown in from Latin America and the Caribbean. In the countries of origin, production of these fashionable "nontraditional" agro-exports (NTAEs) is booming.
Jo-Marie Burt & José López Ricci
While the Peruvian Armed Forces now has the strategic and tactical initiative, Shining Path under Comrade Feliciano has the capacity to dig in at the local level and carry out armed actions of varying intensities.
John L. Hammond
Reference Library of Hispanic America Edited by Nicolas Kanellos, Gale Research, Detroit, MI, 1993, three volumes, 740 pp., $119 (cloth).
In the global capitalist economy, the worst fate nations can suffer is to become expendable. In their desperate struggle against the threat of expendability, many Latin American elites are relegating a large segment of their population-the peasantry-to precisely this fate.
Edgar Gutiérrez
In Guatemala, the cycle of indigenous life organized around the cultivation of corn is disappearing. The powerful symbols of cultural identity, however, are not easily rooted out.
James Ferguson
When Joaquin Balaguer was born on September 1, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, the Marines were occupying Cuba, and the Dominican Republic's Customs Service was under U.S.
Peter Rosset
Prompted by the 1989 collapse of trade relations with the Soviet bloc, Cuba has embarked upon the first national transformation in history from conventional modern agriculture to large-scale organic farming.
Solon L. Barraclough
Agrarian reform necessarily implies a change in power relations in favor of those who physically work the land at the expense of those who traditionally accumulate wealth derived from it. Not surprisingly, it has been one of the most conflictive issues in twentieth-century Latin America.
Edelberto Torres Escobar
While political peace seems to be returning to the region, the peasantry must adapt to the conditions imposed by the new political economy or risk being wiped out completely.