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AS WE GO TO PRESS, IT SEEMS HAITI HAS declared open season on the clergy. On Sunday August 23, five of Haiti's best known Roman Catholic priests were brutally attacked outside the coastal city of St.

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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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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.