Mortgaged Colombia
Between 1962 and 1967, when Colombia was considered a "showcase" of the Alliance for Progress, the national government obtained loans ...
Exporting and Importing Democracy, Law and Human Rights
Following the Vietnam-related dissolution of the Cold War consensus in the 1960s, the Democratic Party divided between hawks who favored ...
Costa Rica: The Non-Market Roots of Market Success
From 1980 to 1982, Costa Rica was battered by its worst economic crisis since the great depression. Inflation soared, and ...
WHAT DOES THE U.S. WANT?
IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF VIOLETA CHA- morro's term. the United States intervened quietly, pri marily as the most ...
The AIA and IBEC
In the months following the end of World War II, Nelson Rockefeller created two new in- ternational "development" organizations, The ...
SOVIET COLLAPSE NOT SO RELEVANT
LATIN AMERICA WAS TRADITIONALLY AN area of marginal importance to the Soviet-bloc economy. The USSR and Eastern Europe developed sig- ...
Foreign Banking in Peru
LIMA, Peru. Dec. 1-The ultranationalist forces unleashed by the military coup d'etat here on Oct. 3, are now eyeing the ...
Post-War Aid: What Kind and Who Decides?
One of the most wide-ranging po- litical battles unfolding in the wake of the Salvadoran peace accords concerns funding for ...
