Newsbriefs
Haitian Putchist Hits Florida Jackpot MIAMI, AUGUST 4, 1997 olonel Carl Dorelien, a high-ranking officer of Haiti's bloody military junta ...
Waving the Big Stick: The Helms-Burton Affair
Helms-Burton is not a rational piece of legislation. It clearly violates international law and various treaties the United States has ...
GETTING OUR WAY Clinton’s Latin America Policy
In early August, the Clinton Administration announced that it was lifting a 20- year ban on the sale of major ...
The Peruvian Crucible: Reflections of a Hostage
On December 17, 1996, as I was making small talk with other guests on the patio of the residence of ...
Election Day in Chiapas: A Low-Intensity War
That morning, in an act of military precision, ten Zapatista sympathizers drove into San Andras, jumped onto the kiosk where ...
Development Aid: Some Small Steps Forward
The commitment of some Clinton Administration appointees to a more participatory approach to development has given significant space to some ...
Meanwhile, in Bolivia
The political battle waged on Capitol Hill fails to take into account the drug war's toll on human rights and ...
