Roots Of Empowerment: Latino Politics and Culture

A small group of Dominican artists and intellectuals met in Manhattan in the closing days of 1989 to plan the

As the U.S. Congress prepares for hearings and debates about whether to approve NAFTA, environmental and public-health conditions in the

At 9:30 in the morning on January 8,1988, 17-year-old Santiago Restrepo and his 14-year-old brother Andr6s left their home in

AT THE END OF 1988, THE U .S.-SUPPORTED Contra war was winding down and thousan of Nica- raaans began flowing

BACK IN THE GLORY DAYS OF THE PANAMA invasion and the Gulf war, it became commonplace for cynics to comment

Proposals for two large toxic-waste dumps in Texas, both of which would be located within 20 miles of the Rio

Readers are invited to address letters to The Editors, Report on the Americas. 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 454, New York,

The border town of Matamoros, located in northeastern Mexico across the river from Brownsville, Texas, was once a quiet ranching

The completion in 1990 of an asphalt highway connecting Ciudad Guayana in the northeast to Santa Elena de UairCn on

THE FIRST MEXICANS IN LOS ANGELES arrived in 1781. Twenty-three adults and 11 children from Sonora, Mexico established a community

THE JURY DELIVERED THE VERDICT AT 12:47 p.m. on December 3. 1990. All six police officers were found not guilty

The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints and the True Heart of Rock 'n' Roll by Rub6n Martinez, Verso, 1992,