THE MILITARY MIND
General Rafael Pena Rios retired fiom active military service at the end of 1987 at the age of 49. He ...
PANAMA The Other Side of Midnight
I thought it was thunder. But the television set me straight. Channel 2, which belongs to the government, was announcing, ...
THE PEACE PROCESS
IN 1982, THE NEWLY-ELECTED GOVERNMENT of Belisario Betancur set Colombian politics on an un- charted course. Although Colombian elites had ...
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 ...
