Free Trade Area of the Americas: NAFTA Marches South

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

Mexico’s Haves and Have-Nots: NAFTA Sharpens the Divided

When Mexico’s 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

“Which side are you on?”: New takes on an old query

In this issue’s 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

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 Fujimori’s presidency. Fujimori was first elected ...
Argentina’s  Collapse

Argentina’s 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

Washington and the Caudillos: Calculation and Miscalculation in Managua

As foreign reporters descended upon Managua during the runup to last fall’s presidential election between Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and ...
Colombia at the Crossroads: The Future of the Peace Accords

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

Retiring on the Free Market: Chile’s Privatized Social Security

In the fall of 2000, a theater in Santiago’s Bellavista district featured the play Con Flores Amarillas, the story of ...