The Wars Within: Counterinsurgency in Chiapas and Colombia

Shortly after the 1994 New Year rebellion, the Zapatistas and the government negotiated a cease-fire. Four years later, Chiapas has

Sterilization and Its Discontents Late last year, reports began circulating in the Lima press that women in remote rural areas

The local priest was first to challenge the dark- ness in Guintar by stringing Christmas lights from the church steeple.

The massacre at Acteal last December was not an accidental or isolated event. In fact, it was a carefully planned

The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation Edited by Douglas A. Chalmers, Carlos M. Vilas,

(far left) A young girl tries to protect herself from the rain in a temporary shelter for refugees of the

The Thirtieth Anniversary Essay by Roger Burbach ["Socialism is Dead, Long Live Socialism," Nov/Dec 1997] presents some provocative argu- ments,

As protests over the privatization of oil and the growing power of foreign capital are met with militarization and repression,

The year 1997 saw a dramatic escalation of violence in Chiapas and Colombia. The December 22 massacre of 45 unarmed

Colombia's northern plains were made for cattle. C~bu and Brangus cattle graze along the SinO River, which occasionally wanders out

The Zapatistas have touched a raw nerve in a political system that once seemed unshakable, prompting a military and paramilitary

Colombia's two nineteenth-century oligarchical par- ties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, still dom- inate the political arena at the close