Reinventing Identity
The history of America begins with a clash of two cultures that were not merely dissimilar, but incompatible: The values ...
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The Town That Raised Its Head Although news of army human rights violations in Guatemala raises few eyebrows anymore, the ...
Scenes from the New World Order
US. Troops occupied four towns on the Panamanian border with Costa Rica on January 14, a few days before death ...
Inventing America 1492-1992
We are soon to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of a momentous event that some people still call "the discovery of ...
And Justice, When?
When General Augusto Pinoehet ar- rived in Valparaiso last March to hand over power to Christian Democrat Patri- cio Aylwin ...
CHILE: A Rough Road Home
As I flew over the Andes mountains and into Santiago last July, I heard the high-pitched, excited voices of several ...
Short Reviews
First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 ed. by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath, ...
Misguided Development
Five hundred years ago, through the mountains of what today are Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, merchant caravans with hundreds ...
