
BRAZIL Activists Take on AIDS
Several times each hour on prime- time television, the Brazilian govem- ment's latest and flashiest AIDS adver- tisement punctuates the ...

POETRY OF PROTEST
THE CHANTS AT THE RALLY AT THE PRESI- dent's mansion right after the 1985 earthquake in- cluded these pungent little ...

MULTI-CLASS REVOLUTIONARIES
THE CLASS CHARACTER OF THE URBAN MASS movement is a subject of intense debate in Mexico, given that classical Marxist ...

SENDERO’S FAVORITE TARGET
THE FIRST OF JUNE: THE RESIDENTS OF VILLA El Salvador's First Sector are holding an assembly. Suddenly a man gets ...

SECURITY IN VILLA EL SALVADOR
The following interview with Michel Azcueta, mayor of Villa El Salvador, by Jaime de Althaus,first appeared in the Lima daily ...

THE PRI FIGHTS BACK—AND LOSES
FOR DECADES, THE GOVERNING PARTIDO Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI, has maintained control over poor neighborhoods by serving as the primary ...

THE HOMELESS ORGANIZE
EVER SINCE URBAN MIGRATION BEGAN accelerating some forty years ago, homeless people have been invading empty lots in cities from ...