The Nicaraguan Revolution in the period of national reconstruction.
The Report will examine the role of the FSLN, the transformation of
the mass organizations since the overthrow of Somoza, the ad-
vances of the rural and urban
trade unions, and the program of
the Government of National
Reconstruction. The participation
of the Nicaraguan bourgeoisie, the
U.S. strategy and the redefinition
Mar/Apr 1980
of the political struggle in Central
America will also be discussed.
Finally, the Report will include an
assessment of the future of the
Nicaraguan Revolution.
Women ‘s oppression and political
action in Latin America. The
Report will analyze the nature of
women’s oppression in Latin
America: the politics of reproduc-
tion, legal and social status, the new character of participation in the paid workforce and the poten-
tial for political action. The Report
plans to examine, as a case study, the process of incorporation of
women into the Mexican border in-
dustries, the “maquiladoras”, and its consequences for family and community life. It will highlight ex-
citing new developments in Mex-
ico, where the National Front for
the Liberation and Rights of
Women, a broad-based coalition
of women’s groups, political par- ties and independent trade unions, has been formed.
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NOTES FROM THE LIBRARY:
NACLA’s office and library are
open to the public Mondays, from
2 to 6 pm, and Tuesday through
Friday from 10 am to 5 pm, except
on holidays.
The response to our ongoing
plea for volunteer help has been
steadily gratifying. We now have
seven people who are helping us
carry out the many tasks of
publishing a magazine.
Most exciting of all for us-and
increasingly for the community of
people interested in the kind of
research we do-is that our
library is beginning to get under
control. As many of you know, we
moved, after 12 years of
publishing out of an Upper West
Side apartment, into a nice big loft
on 19th Street and began to turn
our bulging clipping files and ran-
dom boxes of books into an ac-
cessible research library.
During the past month it has
been used by political activists,
students and researchers studying
the situation in Guatemala, the re-
cent changes in U.S. foreign
policy, immigration from the
Dominican Republic, women’s
organizations in Mexico, the
Puebla Conference, African
elements in Cuban literature and
Japanese investments in Brazil.
Nevertheless, our library is
underutilized and still requires a lot
of work. We need your support.
You can help to improve the
library by donating books and
other pertinent materials. You can
also volunteer to catalogue, file,
build our country data bank and
participate in the thousand and
one tasks that a good research
library requires.
Please give us a call or come to
our office.
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