Jamaica: Caving in to the IMF
The following article updates the May-June 1978 NACLA Report on Jamaica, "Caribbean Conflict: Jamaica and the U.S." In the most ...
Peru: The Left Gathers Force
The popular mood in Peru has become more volatile with each passing month. Three successful nationwide general strikes in the ...
Costa Rica: See Saw Diplomacy
There was much snickering when government posters cropped up all over San Jos6 shortly be- fore Reagan's arrival last Decem- ...
World Bank Takes Aim at Brazil’s Landless Movement
This is Brazil, but it isn't Carnaval. There are no sequins or bright feathers here in Rio Novo. Instead, a ...
Cardoso Among the Technopols
Though Brazil's new centrist president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, achieved early prominence as a Marxist sociologist, there have been no major ...
ARGENTINE DEBT Playing by the Rules
U.S. banks got another last minute reprieve in June, when Argentina agreed to implement yet another IMF adjustment program. The ...
After the Crash
If the present austerity plans continue, predicted economic adviser Jeffrey Sachs in 1986, Bolivia will experience an economic boom before ...
BRAZIL Workers Have a Better Idea
When I arrived at the Ford plant with union president "Vicentinho," several thousand workers were gath- ered at the factory ...
