AMAZING GRACE: The W.R. Grace Corporation

AMAZING GRACE: The W.R. Grace Corporation

On April 29, the Protagonistic Critical Observatory Network (Red Protagónica Observatorio Crítico), an autonomous group of Cuban activists and intellectuals, ...
Chile Facing The Blockade

Chile Facing The Blockade

North Star: A Memoir, by Peter Camejo, Haymarket Books, 2010, 364 pp., $18 (paperback)   Peter Camejo’s life spanned the ...
Eduardo Galeano: Days and Nights

Eduardo Galeano: Days and Nights

  In 1992, Argentine president Carlos Menem launched the convertible peso, fixing the national currency at a one-to-one value with ...
Target Nicaragua

Target Nicaragua

  Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy, by Paul Dix and Pamela Fitzpatrick, Just Sharing Press, 2011, 220 pp., ...
Garrison Guatemala

Garrison Guatemala

  In a frenzy to realign right-wing forces and pressure President Obama to protect “human rights” and security in Latin ...
The Salvation Brokers: Conservative Evangelicals in Central America

The Salvation Brokers: Conservative Evangelicals in Central America

  Will tiny El Salvador, where two thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day, become the ...
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The Politics of Redistribution in Argentina in 130 Days by Michael Cohen The conflict over taxes on agricultural exports in ...
Reviews

Reviews

Democracy vs. National Security: Civil-Military Relations in Latin America by Paul W. Zagorski, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992, 217 pp., $35.00 ...
VENEZUELA Rethinking Capitalist Democracy

VENEZUELA Rethinking Capitalist Democracy

From 1990 through 1992 Venezuela had the highest rate of eco- nomic growth in the Americas. A product of the ...
Grenada: The Revo in Reverse

Grenada: The Revo in Reverse

SCHOOL, SANITATION, POSTAL AND MOST other services ground to a halt during the second week of December, when Grenada's 7,000 ...
Reviews

Reviews

The Socialist Option in Central America: Two Reassessments by Shafik Jorge Handal and Carlos M. Vilas, Monthly Review Press, 1993, ...
Military and Economic Aid and Credits

Military and Economic Aid and Credits

1962-1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 19772 19783 ARGENTINA-Total 1,294.2 265.2 202.6 151.1 76.9 312.5 150.3 602.8 425.0 U.S ...