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Peter Kornbluh & Malcolm Byrne
The Iran-Contra cover-up seriously compromised After it did leak, Bush began to feel that his the 1988 U.S.
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The impeachment of Venezuelan President Carlos Andr6s P6rez has made it clear that free-market neoliberalism has not served as a corrective to corruption. If anything, it has opened new avenues for unscrupulous and illicit behavior.
The issue of corruption has captured the attention of citi- zens around the globe.' In Italy and Brazil, the battle against this ancient scourge seems to have assumed a newly effective form.
Peter Kornbluh & Malcolm Byrne
Seven years after the scandal broke, the Independent Counsel's final report will offer a comprehensive body of evidence on the widespread corruption of politics, policy and power in Washington, D.C.
In the 1950s, Puerto Rico tied its development strategy to market-oriented reforms and to the U.S.
Mexico's COCEI I'm embarrassed to say that I just got around to looking at your December 1992 issue. Be that as it may, I was delighted to see "A Grassroots Challenge," Alison Gardy's article on the COCEI in Juchitdn.
If I could insert my own definition of drug corruption into the dictionary, it would simply read: "a business expense related to the production, trafficking, and sale of state-prohibited drugs." It is perhaps ironic that even as deregulation and free-market ideology have swept through Latin America, the region's most successful export remains the target of the most extreme government intervention: illicit drugs.
The Socialist Option in Central America: Two Reassessments by Shafik Jorge Handal and Carlos M. Vilas, Monthly Review Press, 1993, 143 pp.
Class, Community and NAFTA In early September, 300 of the heaviest hitters in the econom- ics profession signed an open letter urging the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by Congress. The New York Times welcomed the economists into the fray with the front-page, debate-closing headline "A Primer: Why Economists Favor the Free-Trade Agreement.
A few miles outside Amambai, near the Brazilian border with Paraguay, hundreds of people remain camped at the side of the road. They dwell in makeshift canvas houses, under the permanent threat of bullets.
Just like the Mexican buildings that collapsed in the earthquake, Latin American democracy has been robbed of its foundations. Only justice could have provided the solid underpinnings; but instead of justice, we have obligatory amnesia.
In his popular, military-backed autogolpe last year, Peruvian President Fujimori dissolved Congress and the judiciary, charging that these institutions were deeply corrupt. Presidents Collor de Mello in Brazil and P6rez in Venezuela were impeached for using their office for per- sonal gain, in 1992 and 1993 respectively.