BRAZILIAN DEBT Eleventh Hour Ball-Out
"We were 76 traveling companions and only one did not renegotiate; that was us," declared Brazil's Planning Minister Ant6nio Delfim ...
Peru: The Left Gathers Force
The popular mood in Peru has become more volatile with each passing month. Three successful nationwide general strikes in the ...
Jamaica: Leveraged Sellout
AT HIS SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN NOVEM- ber, U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica William Holden made his intentions clear. His stated mission ...
¡Bolivia de pie!
By most accounts, the opening salvo in Bolivia’s ongoing revolutionary cycle occurred in 2000.1 Mothers, unionists, campesinos, students, in fact, ...
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 ...
IMF and World Bank to Labor Unions: Drop Dead
From October 23 to 25 of last year, the High Command of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World ...
Whiter the Course?
Having an incumbent president pass on the sash of office to his successor is still a rare occur- rence in ...
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE A Debt Balance Sheet
I'm no financial wizard, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez told a journalist at the Havana debt confer- ence in August ...
