Debt, Drugs and Democracy: An Interview with Noam Chomsky

Debt, Drugs and Democracy: An Interview with Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky was interviewed in his office by María Luisa Mendonça on March 12, 1999. María Luisa Mendonça: How do
The Failing of the International Financial Architecture

The Failing of the International Financial Architecture

The extraordinary rise of global finance has been the single most outstanding economic development in the last quarter of this
Jamaica: Caving in to the IMF

Jamaica: Caving in to the IMF

The following article updates the May-June 1978 NACLA Report on Jamaica, "Caribbean Conflict: Jamaica and the U.S." In the most
The Money Doctors: Foreign Advisers and Foreign Debts in Latin America

The Money Doctors: Foreign Advisers and Foreign Debts in Latin America

The Mexican peso crisis of December, 1994, pro- duced a series of rapid consultations between U.S. and International Monetary Fund
Peru: The Left Gathers Force

Peru: The Left Gathers Force

The popular mood in Peru has become more volatile with each passing month. Three successful nationwide general strikes in the
ARGENTINE DEBT Playing by the Rules

ARGENTINE DEBT Playing by the Rules

U.S. banks got another last minute reprieve in June, when Argentina agreed to implement yet another IMF adjustment program. The
Costa Rica: Resisting Austerity

Costa Rica: Resisting Austerity

"It is the International Monetary Fund which is governing us now," Oscar Arias, the secretary gen- eral of Costa Rica's
BRAZILIAN DEBT Eleventh Hour Ball-Out

BRAZILIAN DEBT Eleventh Hour Ball-Out

"We were 76 traveling companions and only one did not renegotiate; that was us," declared Brazil's Planning Minister Ant6nio Delfim
¡Bolivia de pie!

¡Bolivia de pie!

By most accounts, the opening salvo in Bolivia’s ongoing revolutionary cycle occurred in 2000.1 Mothers, unionists, campesinos, students, in fact,
IMF and World Bank to Labor Unions: Drop Dead

IMF and World Bank to Labor Unions: Drop Dead

From October 23 to 25 of last year, the High Command of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World
Whiter the Course?

Whiter the Course?

Having an incumbent president pass on the sash of office to his successor is still a rare occur- rence in
LATIN AMERICA'S DEBT The Specter of a Debtors' Cartel

LATIN AMERICA’S DEBT The Specter of a Debtors’ Cartel

If 53 people died in the Dominican Republic, 53,000 people could die if the Mexicans remember that they are a