Under Fire: Menemismo and the Politics of Opposition in Argentina

While more than 90,000 people were being evacuated in Argentina due to floods provoked by El Nifio, a political joke

Although many observers are optimistic about its future, tensions among national constituencies as well as those between Mercosur and other

Impunity & The Murder of Monsignor Gerardi The brutal murder of Guate- malan Bishop Monsignor Juan Gerardi Conedera on April

Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina by J. Patrice McSherry, St. Martin's Press, 1997, 408 pp., $45 (cloth).

Indigenous Groups Challenge U.S. Drug Company QUITO-Indigenous communi- ties in the Amazon are consider- ing a legal challenge to a

Norberto Cordoba sacrificed his job, trying to end condi- tions in his factory so dan- gerous that he feared the

On Socialism Dr. Thomas Maack's critique of my Thirtieth Anniversary Essay, "Socialism is Dead; Long Live Socialism," (Letters, March/April 1998)

President Menem and his Peronist party have ruled Argentina unchallenged for nearly a decade. An electoral alliance that formed last

Punished by years of high inflation, Argentines enthusiastically supported Menem's anti-inflationary Convertibility Plan. The government, however, utilized the success of

Since the military took power in 1976, there has been a systematic effort to undermine the power of the labor

The social and cultural project set in motion by the military regime has been consolidated under Menem. The cultural dislocation