Latin America
February 2001

February Article Abstracts

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Title: United States—Latin American Relations: Preparing for the Handover
Author: Michael Shifter
George W. Bush has expressed a special interest in invigorating America’s relationship with Latin America. But his campaign rhetoric also called for a return to America’s "traditional" national interests, which could mean an even stronger tendency toward the unilateralism that crept into the relationship during the second Clinton administration and has evoked growing displeasure within Latin America.
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Title: Mexico’s Long March to Democracy
Author: Lucy Conger
The story of the election of Mexico’s first opposition president in 71 years is also the story of the birth of an increasingly energized civil society and the missteps of an intransigent and sclerotic ruling party.
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Title: "Reinventing" Democracy in Peru
Author: Carmen Rosa Balbi and David Scott Palmer
Alberto Fujimori, the president who claimed he had to destroy democracy in order to save it, has ignominiously departed, leaving behind a transitional government that is slowly unveiling the corruption in which Fujimori operated and also laying the groundwork for new presidential elections this April.
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Title: Ecuador’s Centrifrugal Politics
Author: Shelley A. McConnell
South America’s first coup since the continent’s return to democracy was a curious one. What led Ecuador’s indigenous people and military to overthrow the government--and then deny that they had done so?
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Title: Defining the "Bolivarian Revolution": Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
Author: Jennifer McCoy and Laura Neuman
Hugo Chávez has taken on the mantle of the people’s will. He has also taken on an ever-larger share of political power and shown an increasing interest in spreading his "Bolivarian revolution" to the downtrodden in nearby Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
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Title: Latin America’s Volatile Financial Markets
Author: Jonathan Lemco and Scott B. MacDonald
The soundness of Latin America’s financial health remains dependent on international capital--primarily from the United States--and commodity exports--also primarily to the United States. This dependence on the international financial environment, along with deep-seated domestic economic inequalities and structural deficiencies, means a guarded economic prognosis for the countries of the region.
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Title: Book Reviews
Author: Sean Patrick Murphy
On Latin America: Neighborly Adversaries: Reading in U.S.-Latin American Relations. Edited by Michael La Rosa and Frank O. Mora.
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Title: Book Reviews
Author: Sean Patrick Murphy
On Latin America: Latin Americanism. By Roman de la Campa.
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Title: The Month in Review: December 2000
"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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