A Market Solution For The Americas?

The most dramatic in Venezuela's municipal and gubernatorial elections held this past December—just nine days after the second military coup

Until its recent embrace of free trade and market-oriented reform, Mexico was a paragon of nationalism and inward-oriented development. The

When Dr. Francisco Estrada Valle, a co-founder of AVES, one of Mexico's first AIDS-education programs, failed to show up last

When Juan Ortega (a pseudonym) went to his doctor three years ago for an HIV test, he was sure that

When negotiations between the Nicaraguan government and striking sugar workers stalled last March, strikers camped out in a park opposite

“Eco-terrorism at Hachet Cay” snapped a headline last year in the popular Belizean weekly Amandala. The newspaper was taking umbrage

“The word of the day in Latin America" says Mario Vargas Llosa—the great novelist and ftee-marketeer, "is liberal." Liberal, to

Despite dome of their clamis, proponents of neoliberalism in Latin America have no real interest in reproducing the free market

El desafio neoliberal: el fin del tercer- mundismo en Amirica Latina edited by Barry B. Levine, Grupo Editorial Norma (Distributed

From 1980 to 1982, Costa Rica was battered by its worst economic crisis since the great depression. Inflation soared, and

Hosted in a new luxury hotel on the ecologically fragile outskirts of Belize City-the construction of which ne- cessitated stripping

MEXICO HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR A MORE equitable and beneficial type of economic growth. Economist Ren6 Villareal, for example, has