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Clinton has taken some small steps to mollify trade unionists and environmentalists, but the primary focus of his trade policy has been to facilitate investment by U.S.
The commitment of some Clinton Administration appointees to a more participatory approach to development has given significant space to some development professionals to design new initiatives and advance limited reforms. Sustainable development" is "the catch phrase of the Clinton Administration's devel abroad.
That morning, in an act of military precision, ten Zapatista sympathizers drove into San Andras, jumped onto the kiosk where the two polling stations were located, burnt them and quickly left. On July 6, the day of its mid- term elections, Mexico un- derwent a seismic political change as the long-ruling Insti- tutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost its congressional majority as well as the governance of Mexico City for the first time in nearly seven decades.
In early August, the Clinton Administration announced that it was lifting a 20- year ban on the sale of major weaponry to Latin American militaries. As Michael Klare explains, the White House had been under heavy pressure from U.
The political battle waged on Capitol Hill fails to take into account the drug war's toll on human rights and democratization in the region. U.
Haitian Putchist Hits Florida Jackpot MIAMI, AUGUST 4, 1997 olonel Carl Dorelien, a high-ranking officer of Haiti's bloody military junta from 1991 to 1994, struck it rich on July 28 when he won the Florida State Lottery. The Haitian officer, who refused to shake Jimmy Carter's hand during ne- gotiations to end the illegal regime-because, he said, Carter's hand had touched President Jean- Bertrand Aristide's-fled to Florida after the junta fell.
Gender Politics in Latin America: Debates in Theory and Practice by Elizabeth Dore (ed.), Monthly Review Press, 1997, 251 pp.
The Rise of the Aztec Sun When the governor-elect of Mexico's Federal District, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, was asked how he cast his ballot on July 6, he said he had voted for Carlos Monsivafs, Mexico City's widely read political journalist and cultural critic. It was Monsivais who, in a series of columns in the daily paper La Jornada earlier this year, broadsided not the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which was slowly collapsing under its own weight, but the con- servative National Action Party (PAN), which over the past few years had staked out a convincing claim to be Mexico's principal op- position party.
This past May, the Central Intelli- gence Agency (CIA) made pub- lic, along with several hundred other classified records, a September 11, 1953 memorandum entitled "Sub- ject: Guatemala." The ten-page memo, labeled "top-secret eyes only," out- lined "A General Plan of Action" to destroy the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmin, Guatemala's democ- ratically elected reformist president.
Two major policy issues, representing opposite ends of the technology spectrum, are fueling an ongoing political debate in Washington. At the upper end, President Clinton recently bowed to intense pressure from the U.
On December 17, 1996, as I was making small talk with other guests on the patio of the residence of the Japanese Ambassador to Peru, I heard a muffled blast. At first I thought it was a car bomb on the street, but I quickly real- ized that it was a bomb that had blown a huge hole in the wall separating the Ambassador's residence from the house next Se door.
Helms-Burton is not a rational piece of legislation. It clearly violates international law and various treaties the United States has signed and vowed to uphold.