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Making Links I found the 20th Anniversary Re- port on the Americas (September/De- cember 1986) exciting not only be- cause of the discussions on the debt crisis, but also because it offered a fresh look at the dynamism of people's movements and struggles from the perspective of those who are participating in and leading them. I have been reading Report on the Americas because of the parallels be- tween Latin American countries and my own country, the Philippines.
Hopeful Openings: A Study of Five Women's Development Organiza- tions in Latin America and the Caribbean by Sally W. Yudelman.
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"Do you think it will be safe for my wife to go to work?" a young Indian from Guatemala's highlands asked. His question reflected the fear that has gripped the Central American com- munity in Los Angeles since a Sal- vadorean woman was kidnapped, tor- tured and raped on July 7, and a Guatemalan woman was kidnapped on July 17.
A MONTH AFTER DUVALIER'S FALL, THE Catholic Church called for a massive literacy campaign, aiming to reach two million adults over the next five years. Numerous radio stations spontaneously offered their equipment, and today thousands of volun- teers in slums and villages across the country are teach- ing the poor to read and write Creole.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia P6rez surprised everyone this year, in- cluding his own advisers, by making more than good on campaign prom- ises to get the economy moving again in a "socially oriented" direction. Despite pessimistic projections by for- eign economic observers, Garcia's series of sweepingly state-interven- tionist reforms helped bring about an 8.
IN RECENT WEEKS SOLDIERS FROM THE Casernes Dessalines and the U.S.
The National Government Council's (CNG) task is to ensure a transition to democracy. That is the only reason it exists, the only reason for its actions .
A leader of Latin America's largest guerrilla movement of the 1960s, 55- year-old Teodoro Petkoff is today a congressman representing Ven- ezuela's third largest party, the Move- ment Toward Socialism (MAS). In 1983, he was MAS's presidential can- didate and is expected to run again in 1988.