NICARAGUA'S ELECTIONS Another Battlefront

NICARAGUA’S ELECTIONS Another Battlefront

Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista Front has never harbored many illusions that the general and presidential elections scheduled for November 4 would ...
CERRO MARAVILLA DEATHS Police Cover-up Rock Puerto Rico

CERRO MARAVILLA DEATHS Police Cover-up Rock Puerto Rico

On July 25, 1978 two young inde- pendentistas were killed by police on a hilltop in southern Puerto Rico. At ...
GUATEMALA'S LABOR MOVEMENT Coke Victory Spurs Recovery

GUATEMALA’S LABOR MOVEMENT Coke Victory Spurs Recovery

The Guatemalan labor movement is showing signs of recovery after the in- tense repression of the last half dozen years ...
ARE THE DEMOCRATS DIFFERENT? by Robert Armstrong

ARE THE DEMOCRATS DIFFERENT? by Robert Armstrong

THE SPIRIT OF TORQUEMADA,THE FIF- teenth century friar who headed the Spanish In- quisition, has returned to haunt the politics ...
Central America, November and Beyond

Central America, November and Beyond

Today, when the word has gone round That these people are bankrupt We on the other continents (which are indeed ...
Taking Note

Taking Note

Washington's Useful Fools AN UNACCUSTOMED SPOTLIGHT FALLS this month on Costa Rica. In recent weeks, talk of the "Switzerland of ...
TRILATERALISM Renovated for the 1980s

TRILATERALISM Renovated for the 1980s

"The terrain is more rugged than I imagined," Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly declared in a February visit to ...
The Crisis

The Crisis

A MAJOR CRISIS AFFLICTS THE UNITED States today. Touching on every aspect of life-political, economic, social and cultural-it has been ...