repression

On January 28, Patricia Troncoso, a prisoner hospitalized in the city of Chillán, in southern Chile, ended her hunger­ strike

For the third time in little more than two years, the Bolivian mili- tary has thwarted the will of the

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

PART I "This is a proposal to train what the Communists call a cadre - but on behalf of democracy

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

"Instability" has plagued Nicaragua for over a century. Despite 21 years of almost uninterrupted U.S. military occupation, followed by 42

Latin America was overly optimistic as the curtain fell on the 1980s. In almost every country, military and civilian leaders

"When people understand the way the winds are blowing, they trim their sails accordingly." With these words, Andrew Young pressured

Men and women dressed in stripes, with numbers on their chests; young people, old people, some yelling slogans about the

Published in the July/August 1978 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas, "Public Debt and Private Profit."  "It took

On Friday, October 29, just a few days before Halloween and the Day of the Dead, Mexico's then-Minister of the

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