COLOMBIA CRACKS UP
LAST AUGUST, FOLLOWING THE ASSASSI- nation of Colombia's front-running presidential can- didate Luis Carlos Galen, George Bush went on television ...
EL SALVADOR The Offensive in Perspective
On November 11, forces of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) launched their largest offensive of El Salvador's decade-long ...
THE MEDIA: A FAMILY AFFAIR
POLITICS IN COLOMBIA IS VERY MUCH A FAM- ily business. Journalist and writer Apolinar Diaz Cal- lejo described it as ...
Taking Note
Sandinismo for the Nineties IS THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION NOW TO become like the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944? Will it be ...
SMALL-TOWN LIFE IN THE MAGDALENA MEDIO
THE PEOPLE HAD NEVER SEEN THEM LIKE THAT. With their heads shaved and their faces painted black, the soldiers began ...
DRUG WARS The Rule of the Game
"Our message to the drug cartels is this," George Bush told the nation last September when he unveiled his ad- ...
AN ACTIVIST FROM BARRANCABERMEJA SPEAKS
"THE 1980S HAVE SEEN A REAL RESUR- gence of direct struggle. When the people decided to go on strike, to ...
