Puerto Rico - End Of Autonomy
UnpublishedMarch/April
1981
Volume:
15
Number:
2
Article
Ruth McDonough
The American Security Council (ASC), not to be confused with the National Security Council, recently released "Attack on the Americas!," a made-for-television film decrying the "red menace" next door. The film is part of a $5,000,000 television campaign called Project Survival, whose stated intention is to "waken and activate all Americans for a change in U.
Mimi Keck
In a trial that many saw as a test of Brazil's much-vaunted liberalization process, known as abertura, the Second Military Court of Sao Paulo on February 25, 1981 handed down stiff sentences to Luis InAcio da Silva (Lula) and ten other trade unionists from Sao Paulo's so-called ABC in- dustrial belt. The unionists were tried under the country's "National Security Law" for inciting to col- lective disobedience of the law in last April's metalworkers strike.
Americo Badillo-Veiga
Major General Nelson A. Miles, Com- mander-in-Chief of the United States military forces that invaded the island in 1898, gave a message to the people of Puerto Rico, declar- ing "[We] come bearing the banner of free- dom .
As the Reagan administration continues to lavish economic and military aid on the Salvadorean junta, the domestic costs of U.S.
PUERTO RICO Surenda Bhana, The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question (1936-1968) (University Press of Kansas, 1975). $11 cloth, 290 pgs.
Paul Horowitz
Driving west along Highway 2 from San Juan, past the Burger Kings, Dunkin' Donuts and Gulf stations, it is hard to imagine the sugar haciendas which once covered this rich coastal plain. Palm trees and February warmth are all that distinguish the highway from the tacky commercial strips that cover the decaying industrial northeast of the United States.