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Robert C. Armstrong
The overthrow of the govern- ment of General Carlos Romero in El Salvador by reformist military of- ficers has done little to end the in- tense class struggle which has made Central America's smallest country number one on the U.S.
Julia Preston
The patterns in the New York City apparel industry provide a partial basis on which to explain the paradoxes of employment in New York City as a whole, where new immigrants easily find jobs (at minimum wages) in spite of high official unemplyment and crippling job loss. Once again, in a time of national recession and local fiscal crisis, the cry went up in New York to "round up the usual suspects.
"When people understand the way the winds are blowing, they trim their sails accordingly." With these words, Andrew Young pressured the Duvalier regime to better comply with the Carter ad- ministration's "human rights" policy during a visit to Haiti in August 1977.
Sherry Keith
Well, Johnny, what did you learn in school today? Ah, Mom, my teacher told me to read my text- book, and it said, Critics of the Alliance say it is a failure because it has not met certain goals. Is this fair? .
"Sewing done on a Singer machine is highly complicated. It comes out expensive in the store, but it's cheap in the factory.
A Spanish translation of our May-June, 1979 report, "Brazil: Controlled Decompression" (NACLA, Vol. XIII, no.
As an avid and long-time reader of NACLA, I have followed your polemics with Castle and Cooke with great interest. I lived in Honduras from 1975 to 1977, and followed very closely the sad events that led to the destruction of SUFTRASCO (the union that represents workers on Castle & Cooke plantations) and the peasant cooperatives at Isle- tas.
CHILE & BRAZIL William H. Overholt, ed.
"If I ever met the Immigration Service, even if I knew they were go- ing to send me back to Haiti, I would have to speak with them. I would make them tell me why they are sending away Haitians, other people of the Caribbean, Latins.
A series of assumptions, based on a tired American notion of immigration from Latin America, has lingered in the public mind to explain who undocumented workers are and why they come here. The American imagina- tion goes to a young, male bracero, a barely- literate peasant who possesses only obsolete farming skills.
"I'm not just undocumented. I have had to negate my whole identity in order to stay alive.
"In the United States we suffer because of our work, and because of the Immigration police. Here we have to work all week, every week.