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Ana Carrigan
An official script that attributes political violence in Colombia to an all-powerful drug mafia has shielded the true identity of the killers of Colombian citizens from public scrutiny and judicial accountability. uesday, August 19, 1994, mid-morning.
Laura Macdonald
It is often assumed that the growth of NGOs in Latin America reflects a strengthening of civil society. But in searching for alternative models of development, North American progressives need to question whether these NGOs are invariably the best vehicle.
Margaret E. Keck
Solidarity has been a core value for religious, leftist and labor groups, signifying support for the struggles of people who, one way or another, are oppressed. After World War II, but especially since the 1960s, solidarity organizations have been joined by human rights organizations, which take a very different approach to the problem of saving lives.
Van Gosse
On the evening of March 19, 1994, just hours before the beginning of El Salvador's national election day, a grand diplomatic party was held to honor all of the international observers at the cavernous, now-redundant U.S.
Pierre LaRamée
These interviews reveal a complex and subtle difference of opinion, as well as elements of an old-fashioned power struggle as the Sandinista party gears up for the 1996 elections. By the end of 1994, what had begun as a political debate within the Sandinista Nat- ional Liberation Front (FSLN) was on the verge of developing into a full-blown split, with front-page reports in the Nicaraguan press of an impending purge of certain members from the Sandinista Nat- ional Directorate (the party execu- tive committee).
Van Gosse
The most intriguing and still-unanswered ques- Ition regarding the Central America solidarity movement has to do with its private allies and sponsors outside of the left. It is no revelation to note that Reagan's re-staging of Vietnam in Nicaragua and El Salvador enjoyed less than over- whelming support from the propertied classes in this country.
Human Rights in Chile Marjorie Agosin's claim ["Patchwork of Memory," May/June, 1994] that the arpillera (testimonial tapestry) workshops ended because of the "state of absolute silence with respect to human rights in Chile today" does not hold water. The end of the arpilleras coin- cides with the opening up of new channels of expression for human rights and other issues.
BORDER WAR BETWEEN ECUADOR AND PERU THE ANDES, FEBRUARY 10, 1995 pproximately 130 casual- ties-the numbers are dis- puted-have been reported so far in the armed conflict between Ecuador and Peru which erupted over long-disputed territory on January 26. Conflict has periodi- cally broken out on the anniver- sary of the signing of the 1942 Rio Protocol border pact, which ended the last war between the two countries in which Peru claimed victory.
Margaret E. Keck
In the wake of the 1988 assassination of Chico Mendes, the way Northern environmentalists talk about Latin American environmental problems began to change. The problem of the Brazilian Amazon has gone from being a story about ill-conceived and destructive developmentalist policies to one about injustice.
Over its 28-year history, NACLA has been absorbed by the question of how progressive activists in North America can act in solidarity with their counterparts in Latin America and the Caribbean. From its inception, NACLA has been pursuing the kinds of investigative questions useful to solidarity activists: What kinds of relations and institu- tions shape the contours of exploitation and oppression in the Americas? Why are U.
Where the Boys are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left by Van Gosse, Verso, 1994, 270 pp., $18.
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From Santo Domingo to Mexico: The Changing Face of Intervention As we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the U.S.
Laura Macdonald
In Latin America, NGOs have historical roots in the Catholic Church's fear of social unrest. In the 1950s, the Church established Clritas, a social-assis- tance organization composed mainly of Catholic laypeople, in various countries of the region.
Deborah Levenson-Estrada & Henry Frundt
Labor solidarity in the 1990s must move beyond fantasies. The exhortation, "workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains," inspired socialist trade unionists over the last century Striking Coca-Cola workers singing on the roof of the company's plant in celebration of a union settlement in 1985.