Mexico’s Secret War
In considering the current status of the conflict in southeastern Mexico, four fundamental realities must be kept in mind. First, ...
Voting For Nobody in Chile’s New Democracy
In December 1997, parliamentary elections were held in Chile to renew the entire Chamber of Deputies and half the elected ...
The Chicago Boys Come Home
In their efforts to sell privatization and deregulation in the United States, conservatives have found inspiration in the free-market extremism ...
Women on the Right
On December 9, 1998, British Minister of the Interior Jack Straw ruled that General Pinochet could be extradited to Spain ...
Document: UN Guatemala Recommendations
On February 25, the UN Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) published its final report. The CEH, cre- ated by the ...
The Pinochet Precedent: Changing the Equation of Repression
The October arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain for having ordered thousands of murders and disappearances in Chile is ...
Time for a U.S. Truth Commission
This past February, the UN Commission for Historical Clarification published an extensive report on human rights violations committed during the ...
Rigoberta’s Testimonio
Two recent news items on Guatemala have made headlines in North American papers. One is the publication of the report ...
