Taking Note
Castroika THE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS FIDEL CASTRO'S face just above the tweed shoulder of the man he is embracing; his beard ...
EL DORADO GONE AWRY
COCA BLANKETS THE HILLS SURROUNDING Peru's Huallaga Valley and carpets much of Bolivia's Chapare. These two regions, now a drug ...
The Addict Economies
DEEP INSIDE BOLIVIA'S SIGLO XX TIN MINE, three men get ready to begin their day's work. Not long ago, this ...
EL SALVADOR The Selling of ARENA
Ever since Josd Napole6n Duarte's Christian Democrats were defeated in municipal and legislative elections last spring, U.S. policy-makers have faced ...
THE MAGIC BULLET
IT IS THE DRUG WARRIOR'S DREAM: A chemical applied from the air that makes coca plants shrivel up and die ...
Coca’s Shining Path
JANUARY 19, 1988. THE ENTIRE POPULATION of Barranca is in the village square, along with resi- dents of 15 other ...
MEXICO An Exchange
Last August and September, histo- rian John Womack of Harvard Uni- versity wrote a series of letters to the editors ...
