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 ...
In Review

In Review

When Women Rebel: The Rise of Popular Feminism in Peru by Carol Andreas, Lawrence Hill & Company, 1985, 233 pp., ...
THE PRI FIGHTS BACK—AND LOSES

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

THE HOMELESS ORGANIZE

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