Taking Note

Taking Note

Morality and Power POLICE AND SOLDIERS WERE LIBERALLY DE- ployed in downtown Santiago last February 15 when Maj. Sergio Cea, ...
ARGENTINA Putting the "Perón" Back In

ARGENTINA Putting the “Perón” Back In

On the way to Buenos Aires from the airport at Ezeiza, two weeks before the May 14 elections, I asked ...
Squatters' Power is San Miguel Teotongo

Squatters’ Power is San Miguel Teotongo

PERHAPS WHAT MAKES THE URBAN POOR people's movement such a deeply challenging force-in Mexico or anywhere-is that it is rooted ...
BRAZIL Activists Take on AIDS

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

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

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

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

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 ...