Latin America
February 2000

February Article Abstracts

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Title: The United States and Colombia: Partners in Ambiguity
Author: Michael Shifter
"The Clinton administration and Congress will likely reach an agreement to increase aid to Colombia. Yet whether the agreement reflects a serious commitment with a clear strategic purpose to support Colombia and the Colombian government—or whether it merely seeks to satisfy the myriad domestic political interests and agendas involved in United States policy toward Colombia—is a critical question. It is a question, however, that can probably not abide much ambiguity."
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Title: The Enigmatic Guerrilla: FARC's Manuel Marulanda
Author: Andrés Cala
"Manuel Marulanda, the head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, may become the unlikely head of the first leftist guerrilla movement to achieve success in the post-cold war era. . . . "
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Title: Democracy and Its Discontents in Fujimori's Peru
Author: David Scott Palmer
"The government and its supporters have concluded that Peru's continued success depends on continuity at the presidential helm. Opponents believe that five more years of President Alberto Fujimori is a recipe for disaster."
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Title: Demystifying Venezuela's Hugo Chávez
Author: Jennifer L. McCoy
"The challenge for the [Chávez] administration is to devise a way to include dissenting voices and respect minority views while still carrying out the changes desired by the Venezuelan people. The alternative is a tyranny of the majority in the name of revolutionary change."
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Title: Globally Wired: Politics in Cyberspace (Second in a Series)
The Hall of Mirrors: The Internet in Latin America
Author: Ricardo Gómez
Latin American Internet users, like those in the developed world, "may be merely surfing the labyrinth of the Library of Babel dreamt by Borges: a library in which the contents matter far less than the apparent infinity of its holdings."
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Title: Guatemala's Precarious Peace
Author: David Holiday
"The Guatemalan peace process will ultimately be considered successful if it contributes to reconciliation among the many participants in the armed conflict. . . . While international human rights norms and institutions clearly support uncovering the truth about Guatemala's bloody past, such inquiries call into question the fundamental structures of military, political, and economic power in Guatemala."
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Title: Book Reviews: The Cuban Way: Capitalism, Communism and Confrontation By Ana Julia Jatar-Hausmann
Reviewer: Susan I. Finkelstein
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Title: Book Reviews: Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo By Peter Schwab
Reviewer: Susan I. Finkelstein
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Title: The Month in Review: December 1999
An international chronology of events in December, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Latin America
A map of Latin America.
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