Disposable Children: The Hazards of Growing Up Poor in Latin America

With this issue, NACLA wel- comes Rafael Barajas, "El Fisg6n, " as a regular contributor to our newsbrief section (see

Clinton's First Year: Trade Above All No sooner had Colombia's president, C6sar Gaviria, been propelled to the secre- tary generalship

For the children of Medellin, drug trafficking brings the fantasy of wealth and the reality of death. First it becomes

If the Mango Tree Could Speak a video by Patricia Goudvis (distrib- uted by New Day Films, 22 D Holly-

It is simply no longer necessary, and therefore no longer acceptable, for millions of families to endure preventable disease and

It's summer in the southern hemisphere, and a warm bright- ness permeates the beginning of the days. There is an

The Child and Adolescent Statute (Estatuto da Crianfa e do Adolescente), passed into law in 1990 by the Brazilian national

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November

The drama unfolded before one of the NACLA editors as she was sipping coffee at an outdoor caf6 in Cochabamba,

The girls are attracted by promises of work in a restaurant or luncheonette, but then are sent to work in

The most visible tragedy in Latin American cities has been the appearance of millions of street children. Like the tip

The National Movement of Street Children (Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua, or MNMMR), a voluntary NGO, was