
Free Trade Area of the Americas: NAFTA Marches South
The U.S. plan to create the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) as a hemisphere-wide successor to, and expansion ...

Mexico’s Haves and Have-Nots: NAFTA Sharpens the Divided
When Mexicos President Vicente Fox paid a visit to the White House and the U.S. Congress last September, he spoke ...

Which side are you on?: New takes on an old query
In this issues Open Forum [Caught in an Anti-Terrorist Web, see Open Forum], Peruvian human rights activist Ernesto de la ...

Cleaning Up After Fujimori: Peruvian Panel Probes Economic Crimes Linked to Privatization
Peruvians are just beginning to untangle the web of high-level corruption woven during Alberto Fujimoris presidency. Fujimori was first elected ...

Argentinas Collapse
Since the Mexican devaluation of December, 1994 several other major financial cataclysms have occurred in the Third World; together these ...

Washington and the Caudillos: Calculation and Miscalculation in Managua
As foreign reporters descended upon Managua during the runup to last falls presidential election between Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and ...

Colombia at the Crossroads: The Future of the Peace Accords
Colombia has been wracked by civil war for 37 years and today the nation is at a crossroads: Either it ...

Retiring on the Free Market: Chile’s Privatized Social Security
In the fall of 2000, a theater in Santiagos Bellavista district featured the play Con Flores Amarillas, the story of ...