El Pueblo Unido: A Central America Retrospective

ON JULY 19, 1979, THE SANDINISTA NA- tional Liberation FrontTHE(FSLN)SANDINISTAtook power(NA-)in O N JULY Nicaragua, ending nearly half a century

One of El Salvador’s leading businessmen was holding forth recently on his compatriot’s near-mythical reputation for hard work and industriousness

She is a tiny, ancient-looking woman in bare feet and a dingy housewife's apron. Though her face is wizened like

Undone by charges of corruption and influence peddling, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Melo has been impeached and faces trial

When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Quiché human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum this October 16, the awful

A HISTORIAN LOOKING BACK ON TIlE SANDI- nists period many years hence may see it not just as the upheaval

A Question of Solidarity HIS SUMMER I ATTENDED A SMALL GATHering of leftist journalists to listen to an FMLN comandante.

A QUICHE WOMAN FROM AN ALDEA OF SAN Miguel Uspantan, Rigoberta Menchu lived a harsh, peasant life until a little

AN IMPORTANT CASE IN DETERMINING TO what extent Guatemala will be ruled by law in the 1990s is that of

An intelligence source says the plan, during the 15 days that the Peruvian police have to interrogate the leader of

Fifty thousand Nicaraguans died in the late 1970s overthrowing the brutal dictatorship that had ruled the country for half a

For two decades, Central America has been in upheaval, experiencing fundamental social and political change. The Nicaraguan revolution and the