NEW MEXICO BOOK PUBLISHED
NACLA has just published
Beyond the Border, an examina-
tion of the social, political and
economic ties between Mexico
and the United States. The book
brings together for the first time
revised and updated materials
from past NACLA Reports on
border industries, Mexican labor
struggles, and rural under-
development. Entirely new are an
overview-analysis of the entangled
web of interconnections between
the two countries, labor migration
tana is a member of the ultra-
rightist TFP (Tradition, Family, Pro-
perty) movement.
In all these appointments the
Brazilian hierarchy’s special
regional commissions named to
advise the Vatican on candidates
for h-,hops were ignored. For Car-
dinal Baggio and Bishop L6pez
Trujillo, it is essential to control the
Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.
Their method is that of gradually
changing the ranks of bishops to
bring in more “orthodox” ele-
ments, more submissive to
Vatican instructions and less
critical of the country’s socio-
political situation. The tactic is one
that could succeed; there are
presently some 50 appointments
to be made to Brazilian dioceses.
-by James G. Goff, director of
Noticias Aliadas, Lima, Peru
to the United States and the im-
pact of the growing economic
crisis. Carey McWilliams, author of
Factories in the Fields and former
editor of The Nation describes the
book as “timely… insightful…
first rate.”
NACLA sustainers, who have
donated $25 or more to help main-
tain and improve our research and
publications, will be receiving free
copies of this new book im-
mediately. It is not too late for you
to join the hundreds of sustainers
whose tax deductible donations
have been used to move our of-
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fices to a new and larger space, to
reorganize our library for public
use and to support our work in
general. Become a sustainer your-
self and you too will receive a free
copy of Beyond the Border.
GUATEMALA BOOK BACK IN PRINT
Long unavailable, NACLA’s au-
thoritative book, Guatemala, is
again available for a short time on
a first-order-first-serve basis. We
have recovered 400 copies of this
unique history and socio-political
analysis of the rife-torn country
and will sell them until they are
sold out. Copies are already going
quickly, so, order yours today at
the same price of $5.00 (add 75c
for handling and postage).
CALLING SUMMER VOLUNTEERS
The library in our new offices is
slowly becoming reorganized so
that the public can use it. We are
looking for the means to hire a full-
time librarian and out-reach coor-
dinator to assure that our unique
collection of books, periodicals,
and clippings files are accessible to
anyone who wants to use them. In
the meantime we still need volun-
teers to help out, not only in the
library, but also in other parts of
our research and publishing.
Anyone interested in volunteering
to work with us will be welcome.
THE NEXT REPORT
The September-October
NACLA Report looks at Panama.
The treaties have been signed,
but the ugly battle over implemen-
tation legislation is, at the time of
this writing, still being waged in the
House of Representatives. In Oc-
tober, the Canal, under the new
terms of agreement, will actually
be handed over to Panama.
July/August 1979
Crucial to understanding why
the relationship between the two
countries was opened to renegoti-
ation, and in whose interest, it is
necessary to understand the
political and economic
developments in both the United
States and Panama in the past
decade and a half.
In particular, the Report will
focus on the Torrijos regime,
evaluating the political soil from
which it sprang and the direction
of its consolidation. We will ex-
amine the role of the international
“free banking zone” in Panama, a
project given great impetus by Tor-
rijos. We will also look at the treaty
debates within the United States,
drawing lessons about the various
forces that fought either to main-
tain or reformulate U.S. control
over Panama’s vital natural
resource, the Canal.
PROGRAM OF
NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT
AVAILABLE FROM NACLA
Nicaragua is free of the hated
dictator, but where does it go from
here? The provisional Junta has
issued a twenty-one page Pro-
gram, outlining the direction of
post-Somoza reconstruction in the
political, economic and social
arenas. NACLA has translated this
historic document and is making it
available as a special pamphlet.
In its comprehensive Program,
the Junta of the Government of
National Reconstruction outlines
plans for the structure of the tran-
sitional government, including rep-
resentation of the broad spectrum
of anti-Somoza political and
economic groups; the incorpora-
tion of FSLN combatants into the
new National Army; the expropria-
tion of the Somoza family’s hold-
ings; the creation of a mixed public
and private economy with state
control over natural resources;
guidelines for foreign investments;
and the provision of medical care,
housing, education and other vital
social services to the Nicaraguan
people.
The Program is defined by its
creators as providing the basis for
a “democratic state, for social
justice, and initiates a revolu-
tionary and nationalist process of
profound transformations. . ” In
the monumental task of consoli-
dating Nicaragua’s victory, the
Program’s architects will un-
doubtedly have to struggle
vehemently to defend the revolu-
tionary interpretation of this pro-
cess against those who will be
contending to control the direction
of Nicaragua’s future in their own
interest.
NACLA’s pamphlet, “Nicaragua
1979: Year of Liberation,” is now
available from NACLA for 75s plus
25e postage and handling.
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