The Political Uses Of Culture

“When I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my gun," said Gestapo chief Hermann Goering, a few years before

ARGENTINA UNDER MENEM: THE AESTHETICS OF DOMINATION Under President Carlos Saul Menem's reactionary cultural revolution, Argentina has become more authoritarian

As the presidential campaign took shape, two candidacies emerged from the broad coalition behind incumbent president Guillermo Endara: Mireya Moscoso

Capirona, a small Quichua accommodate the ecotourist's community in the rainfor- desire for an "authentic" est of eastern Ecuador, sur-

CARDOSO CATCHES UP TO LULA IN POLLS Rio DE JANEIRO, AUGUST 8, 1994 Brazil's presidential race has been radically altered

COLOMBIA: DEATH AND THE MEDIA TAKING NOTE: A critical analysis of recent media coverage of the murder of Colombian soccer

ECUADOR: THE PEOPLE VS. TEXACO The legacy of Texaco's 20 year sojourn in Ecuador is a wasteland in the heart

MUSICA AGAINST DRUGS: FIGHTING AIDS WITH SALSA Musica Against Drugs' emphasis on Puerto Rican identity and culture, as expressed through

PANAMA: THE OPPOSITION RETURNS TO POWER Ernesto "Toro" Perez Balladares, the candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), and a

The Sandinistas I was happy to see NACLA give so much space to a debate over the 1993 crisis in

THE SOUL OF THE BARRIO: 30 YEARS OF SALSA In the 1960s and 1970s, salsa captured the spirit of the

Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City 1954-1985 by Deborah Levenson-Estrada, The University of North Carolina Press, 1994, 288 pp., $45