Mercosur: The Prospects for Regional Integration

Mercosur: The Prospects for Regional Integration

Although many observers are optimistic about its future, tensions among national constituencies as well as those between Mercosur and other ...
Taking Note

Taking Note

Impunity & The Murder of Monsignor Gerardi The brutal murder of Guate- malan Bishop Monsignor Juan Gerardi Conedera on April ...
Reviews

Reviews

Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina by J. Patrice McSherry, St. Martin's Press, 1997, 408 pp., $45 (cloth) ...
Newsbriefs

Newsbriefs

Indigenous Groups Challenge U.S. Drug Company QUITO-Indigenous communi- ties in the Amazon are consider- ing a legal challenge to a ...
Testing NAFTA's Labor Side Agreement

Testing NAFTA’s Labor Side Agreement

Norberto Cordoba sacrificed his job, trying to end condi- tions in his factory so dan- gerous that he feared the ...
Letters

Letters

On Socialism Dr. Thomas Maack's critique of my Thirtieth Anniversary Essay, "Socialism is Dead; Long Live Socialism," (Letters, March/April 1998) ...
Shifting Alliances: Party Politics in Argentina

Shifting Alliances: Party Politics in Argentina

President Menem and his Peronist party have ruled Argentina unchallenged for nearly a decade. An electoral alliance that formed last ...
Menem's Great Swindle: Convertibility, Inequality and the Neoliberal Shock

Menem’s Great Swindle: Convertibility, Inequality and the Neoliberal Shock

Punished by years of high inflation, Argentines enthusiastically supported Menem's anti-inflationary Convertibility Plan. The government, however, utilized the success of ...