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Melrose Huff
Ruben Zamora was the presi- dential candidate of a coali- tion of leftist parties including the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the Democratic Convergence (CD), and the National Revolutionary Party (MNR). Melrose Huff inter- viewed Zamora at his campaign headquarters in San Salvador on March 24, four days after the elections.
Michael McCaughan
Since the January 1st uprising of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), Subcomandante Marcos-the guerrilla force's most visible leader-has emerged as an articulate spokesperson for the country's dispossessed. His regular letters to the Mexican public are razor-sharp critiques of Mexican society and Salinismo.
Duncan Green
The groundwork for Chile's impressive macroeconomic success was laid by the brutal social surgery carried out under Pinochet. The return to democracy has seen a move to "neoliberalism with a human face," but the social and environmental costs of the model remain severe.
George Vickers & Jack Spence
ARENA's hard-hitting campaign strategy attempted to exploit the cleavages in Salvadoran society wrought over a decade of war. The election became a fight between Right and Left, and the results were not good news for the Left.
Haiti Just when I had totally given up on NACLA as a reliable alter- native media source, your Haiti issue [January/February 1994] did much to restore your credibility with me. The articles actually con- tained extensive information about the U.
In August, 1982, in the midst of global recession, skyrocketing interest rates and declining commodity prices, the Mexican government of Jos6 L6pez Portillo announced that Mexico was unable to service the interest payments on its foreign debt. Mexico's default set in motion the chain of events that produced the Latin American debt crisis, the end- less negotiations with First-World lenders and governments, and the ulti- mate implementation of the free-market economic reforms insisted upon by international financial institutions.
DOMINICAN STAND-OFF SANTO DOMINGO, JUNE 16, 1994 A month after the May 16 presidential elections in the Dominican Republic, there is still no officially declared winner. Opposition candidate Jos6 Fran- cisco Pefia G6mez, of the social- democratic Dominican Revolu- tionary Party (PRD), charged that President Joaquin Balaguer, who represents the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), was try- ing to pull off an electoral coup, putting the nation's political sta- bility at risk.
Robin Alexander & Peter Gilmore
Mexican workers, whose newly developed labor movement had radical socialist and anarchist leadership, played a major role in the Mexican revolution of 1910. The pact between the Constitutionalist forces of Venustiano Carranza and the anarchist House of the Workers of the World was the beginning of what is rhetorically known in Mexico as the "historic relationship between the working class and the State.
Luis Hernández & Laura Carlsen
On November 28, 1993, when Luis Donaldo Colosio was unveiled as the presidential candi- date of the governing Institutional Revolution- ary Party (PRI), the future of President Carlos Salinas' "modernization" project-Salinismo-appeared to be on firm footing. Public opinion polls showed President Salinas to be widely popular; the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) guaran- teed the continuity of the regime's free-market eco- nomic policy; the center-left opposition led by Cuauht6moc C.
The End of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Billie DeWalt and Martha Rees, with Arthur Murphy, Center for U.S.
Julio Moguel
The terrain on which the indigenous struggle has been cultivated is nothing more complex than the extreme poverty which Salinas' National Solidarity Program has been incapable of mitigating. The Chiapas insurrection is an "armed critique" of the government's social policy.
Pierre LaRamée
Haiti: The New Old Policy The Clinton Administration's announcement in early May of a dramatic shift in its Haiti policy appeared at first glance to signal that the government had resolved to live up to its promise to restore democracy in Haiti. To begin with, Lawrence Pezul- lo, Clinton's point-man on Haiti, was replaced as special envoy by William Gray, a former ranking member of the Congressional Black Caucus with no previous for- eign-service experience.
Robin Alexander & Peter Gilmore
For six years Fernando Castro had responsibility for the management of chemicals at a motor plant owned by General Electric (GE) in the Mexican border city of Judrez. Last November he was fired for union organizing, a relatively common occur- rence in Mexico.
Denise Dresser
Mexico's short-term future lies neither in apocalyptic chaos, nor in orderly capitalist development. Nor, in all likelihood, does a peaceful democratic transition loom on the horizon.
David Barkin
While the cri- sis in Mex- ico is not new, until the dawn of 1994 it had been extremely well hidden. A well-financed cam- paign had proclaimed the country ready to join the ranks of the advanced industrial nations, and the offi- cial criers were not only Mexican.