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Antonio Navarro Wolff, a coman- dante of the former urban-based guerrilla movement M-19, is now running for president as the candi- date of the M-19/Democratic Alliance (M-19/AD) in the May 1994 elections. He was interviewed in his Bogota office last November by Marc Chernick.
Marc Chernick
Like their southern cone counterparts who, while living under the harsh repression of authoritarian regimes, came to reevaluate their earlier hostility to "bourgeois democracy," so Colombia's intellectuals have come to value an end to armed conflict as a necessary precondition for any future political struggle. Guerrilla war continues with- out reprieve in the northern Andes.
Not so long ago, most everyone on the Left agreed that U.S.
Marx V. Aristide & Laurie Richardson
The U.S.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
"The Haitian mind, you know, is just differ- ent," says Robert McCandless, a Washing- "ton lobbyist described as "the most vocif- erous advocate" of the civilians and military leaders behind the coup that toppled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "I mean they don't understand why we react to things that they don't, and why we don't react to things that they do.
Marx V. Aristide & Laurie Richardson
On a chilly Washington weekend last October, Haiti's grassroots leaders huddled with exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to take stock of their country's popular movement. Their reflec- tions yielded a mixed assessment.
Shining Path Exchange In recent months, readers of this magazine have been treated to an increasingly common specta- cle on the Left-published letters which seem to "cross the line" between legitimate, passionate statements of political beliefs and virtual assassinations of character. The exchange of letters began with the publication of Carol Andreas' letter (July/August 1993), in which she takes issue with NACLA author Virginia Vargas' depiction of Marfa Elena Moyano and explains why Shining Path felt obliged to assassinate the grass- roots women's leader.
Roger Burbach
The killing of ex-Sandinista soldiers in Esteli, the hostage crisis, the often Machiavellian role played by Humberto Ortega, and the ever deepening tensions within the Sandinista party itself-these incidents or critical issues have placed Nicaragua on the brink of what appears to be an impending collapse. A decade and a half after the ouster of the Somoza re- gime, Nicaragua is a coun- try torn by political and social strife.
Marx V. Aristide & Laurie Richardson
Many of Haiti's popular organizations trace their roots back to the Ti Kominote Legliz (TKL), for it was in these ecclesiastical base communities that activists found cover during the repressive Duva- lier era. Springing from the current of liberation the- ology, the Ti Legliz movement Father Willy Romelus, a leader of the Ti took off in the Leglizmovement, speaks at the funeral mid-1970s, pro- of a victim of military violence.
Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold War by Jorge G. Castafieda, Arthur A.
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The Rights of Venezuela's Colombians As North Americans debate the questions of cross-bor- der class relations raised by NAFTA, Antonio Navarro Wolff, the former guerrilla leader and cur- rent candidate for president of Colombia [see "Interview With Navarro Wolff," p. 12] has sparked an Andean version of the same debate.
Jean Jean-Pierre
Nearly one out of every four Haitians now resides outside the country. Its size and strong ties with the homeland have made this diaspora-Haiti's "10th Department"-a political and economic force that every Haitian government must reckon with.
The mountains of Colombia, December 2, 1992 Sefiores Antonio Caballero, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nicolas Buveaventura, Fernando Botero and the other signatories of the letter: We extend our greetings and thank you for your important observations on the persistence of armed insurgency in Colombia. We, too, would like to share with you some of our reflections which we hope can be of some use.
Santa Fe de Bogota, November 20, 1992 Seriores Coordinadora Guerrillera Sim6n Bolivar: As a group of convinced democrats who oppose violence and authori- tarian solutions of all kinds, we have the moral right to question the legiti- macy and the effectiveness of the actions that you have pursued now for many years. In the current circumstances, we oppose the means you use to carry on your struggle.
Kim Ives
Essentially, the movement which formed around President Aristide's candidacy represented an alliance of Haiti's traditional merchant bourgeoisie with an array of The L grassroots worker, peasant and student organizations, commonly referred to as the A lii popular movement. Since 1986, the traditional bourgeoisie was represented politically by the "democ- Prc ratic sector," so called because of its focus on the mainstays of bourgeois democra- Arisl cy-a constitution and elections-while eschewing revolutionary tactics, sharp con- frontation of Duvalierist and U.
Barbara Briggs & Charles Kernaghan
Over the past decade, U.S.
Kim Ives
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Catherine Orenstein
On October 11, the United States carrier ship USS Harlan County W ha arrived in the bay of Port-au-Prince with a cargo of 200 "combat engineers and Ha military trainers." But after a day-long Hait stand-off at the docks with a small gang of military attaches who bran- W ant dished clubs and guns, and screamed, "No U.