LATIN AMERICA Andrew Graham-Yooill, The Press in Argentina 1973-8 (Writers and Scholars Educational Trust, 1979). $10 paper, 171 pgs. A presentation in chronological fashion of how the press fared in Argentina from the installation of Campora (1973) to early 1978. The author spent 10 years in Aregntina with the Buenos Aires Herald. Available in the United States from the Fund for Free Expression, 205 E. 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. Cesar Caviedes, The Politics of Chile: A Sociogeographical Assessment (Westview Press, 1979). $25 cloth, 357 pgs. An “electoral geography” of Chile which seeks to “unveil the spatial patterns of party support and to relate voting behavior to the socioeconomic characteristics of the population.” Caviedes breaks down Chile according to its social geography and discusses voting patterns and politics in that context. (Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301.) Jack Spence, Search for Justice: Neighborhood Courts in Allende’s Chile (Westview Press, 1979) $16.50 cloth, 206 pgs. Contrary to the Cuban example, little has been written about the experiment with popular justice in Allende’s Chile. In this fine book Spence discusses Neighborhood Courts and other attempts to “improve access to judicial services within poor neighborhoods historically excluded from the traditional court system.” Good account of the differences which existed be- tween the Popular Unity government and the Revolu- tionary Left on the concept of these courts. John Griffiths and Peter Griffiths, eds. Cuba: The Se- cond decade (Britain-Cuba Scientific Liason Committee, 1979). $3.95 paper, 271 pgs Series of articles on Cuba in the 1970s covering political developments, economy and planning, society, culture and the media. Available from the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 9-19 Rupert Street, London W1V 7FS, England. Fernando Velasco, Reforma agraria y movimiento campesino indigena de la sierra (Editorial El Conejo, 1979). Write for price, 167 pgs, paper. Excellent Marxist treat- ment of agrarian reform and capitalist development both from a theoretical perspective and as applied to the Ecuadorian sierra. Also includes a section on agrarian reform and the peasant movement in Ecuador after 1960. Available from Editorial El Conejo, Ap. 4629-A, Quito, Ecuador. Latin America Bureau, El Salvador Under General Romero: An Analysis of the First Nine Months of the Regime of President Romero (Latin American Bureau, 1979). Write for price, paper, 254 pgs. Good background for 48 understanding the current crisis in El Salvador. Also published in Spanish. Available from Latin America Bureau, PO Box 134, London NW1 4JY, England. Louise L. Cripps, The Spanish Caribbean: From Columbus to Castro (G.K. Hall & Co., 1979). $20 cloth, 251 pgs. Con- trasting and comparing the cases of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto, Cripps has written a good alternative to the standard texts on the Caribbean. (G.K. Hall & Co., 70 Lincoln St., Boston, MA 02111.) CIDE, “Carter y America Latina, I” Cuadernos Seomestrales, No.5 (1979). $6 per copy; $30 for subscrip- tion to Estados Unidos which includes two issues of Cuadernos Semestrales, 411 pgs. Collection of essays from left perspective on Carter’s foreign policy toward Latin America. Also includes official documents which discuss U.S. policy objectives. Available from CIDE-Estados Unidos, apdo. 41-553, Mexico 10, DF, Mexico, Abraham F. Lowenthal, ed., Armies and Politics in Latin America (Holmes & Meier Publisher, 1976). $22 cloth $9.50 paper, 356 pgs. Series of general articles and case studies on military participation in Latin American political systems. Most tend to build “models” for understanding the military which, in some cases, are more confusing than helpful. (Holmes & Meier, 101 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003.) James H. Street and Dilmus D. James, eds., Technological Progress in Latin America: The Prospects for Overcoming Dependency (Westview Press, 1979). $20 cloth, 257 pgs. Majority of papers argue that technological possibilities exist for the internal genera- tion of technological development in Latin America. IMPERIALISM, WORKERS, EDUCATION Harry Magdoff, Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present (Monthly Review Press, 1978). $12.50 cloth, 279 pgs. Extension of The Age of imperialism (1969), including several recent essays. Main essay examines European expansionism from 1763 to the present. Other essays deal especially with the multinational corpora- tion, militarism, US. foreign policy and technology and imperialism. (Monthly Review Press, 62 W. 141h Street, New York, NY 10011.) Documents from the “First International Seminar on the History of the Latin American Workers Movement” held in Venezuela, 1979. Fifteen papers on the working class, organized labor and the left in Latin America, some of which are quite good. Available in the NACLA office or a few remaining sets can be purchased for $20 from Richard Parker, Escuela de Sociologia y An- tropologia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela Jose Marti, On Education (Monthly Review Press, 1979). $14 cloth, 320 pgs. This volume, edited by Philip Foner, includes Marti’s writings on educational theory and pedagogy from 1875-1893 and a series of selec- tions from La Edad de Oro (The Age of Gold), a monthly magazine for children founded by Marti in New York in 1889. Selections are short but uniformly interesting.
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