
The U.S. Military Bases: Will They Stay or Go?
Negotiations over the fate of the bases have sparked a heated debate in Panama about the trade-offs between national sovereignty ...

CONAIE’S Agrarian Law Proposal
The "Integral Agrarian Law," presented by ONAIE, consists of five main points: * Existing demands for land should be processed ...

Newsbriefs
The Gap Allows Monitors into Maquiladoras NEW YORK, JANUARY 20, 1996 After months of controversy, the Gap has agreed to ...

The PRI’s Protection Racket: Maintaining Control at the Grassroots
This past September 14, a driz- zly Thursday pre- ceding Mexico's September 15-16 independence cel- ebration, a few hundred angry-looking ...

GAINING GROUND The Indigenous Movement in Latin America
"With their seizure of half a dozen towns in Chiapas on New Year's Day, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National ...

Reviews
A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala by W. George Lovell, Between the Lines (Toronto, Canada), 1995, 161 ...

Bolivia: Making the Leap from Local Mobilization to National Politics
Bolivia's indigenous peoples have already made significant strides in the national arena. To make further progress, they will have to ...

Ecuador: Taking On the Neoliberal Agenda
By linking the demands of Ecuador's indigenous population and non-indigenous popular sectors, the indigenous movement has moved to the forefront ...