Latin American Perspectives articles from September 1997

Latin American Perspectives archives from September 1997

Introduction.(Editorial)
September 1, 1997... The central theme of this issue is neoliberalism in Latin America. Neoliberal economic policies stress market-oriented strategies for development. Proponents of neoliberalism marginalize any role for the state, arguing that "the government...

Transitions to electoral regimes and the future of civil-military relations in Argentina and Brazil.
September 1, 1997... Although there is a considerable literature on transitions to democracy in Latin America, little effort has been made to analyze the transformations of states and regimes that have accompanied democratization. James Petras and Morris Morley...

Armed forces, market forces: intellectuals and higher education in Chile, 1973-1993.
September 1, 1997... The Pinochet dictatorship's Chicago Experiment of neoliberalizing the Chilean economy has had among its consequences the dismantling of one of the more productive and democratic higher education systems of the Americas. From shortly after...

The drug war at the supply end: the case of Bolivia.
September 1, 1997... One approach to drug abuse is harm reduction with an emphasis on treatment and rehabilitation rather than criminalization and punishment. In the United States this approach has been presented as an alternative to the war against drugs waged...

International relations between Cuba and the Caribbean in the 1990s: challenges and perspectives.
September 1, 1997... Recent years have seen a trend toward the gradual reintegration of Cuba into the Caribbean. The onset of this trend can be traced to 1987, when, at the initiative of the Dominican Republic, that country and Cuba broadened their...

The politics of liberation: the popular church, indigenous theology, and grassroots mobilization in Oaxaca, Mexico.
September 1, 1997... Though the Catholic church in Mexico has maintained a solid reputation as a conservative social force from the time of the conquest, since Vatican II in the late 1960s a "progressive" wing of the clergy influenced by liberation theology has...

Back From the Future: Cuba Under Castro.
September 1, 1997... Susan Eva Eckstein (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). 286 pp. Back from the Future presents an account of the basic stages Cuba has passed through since 1959 under the revolutionary government led by Fidel Castro. Its most...

Reply to Roman. (reply to Peter Roman's review in this volume of the book 'Back From the Future: Cuba Under Castro')
September 1, 1997... I am disturbed by Peter Roman's review not because he criticizes my book but because he misrepresents what my book is about and because he uncritically appraises the very institution on which he inappropriately centers his critique. It...

Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration.
September 1, 1997... Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) Hondagneu-Sotelo's fine study of gender issues in Mexican immigration is based on participant-observation, community activism, and interviews with 44 men and women...

The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change and Democratization.
September 1, 1997... Allison Brysk (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994). 291 pp. Underplayed in the recent literature on transitional democracies in Latin America and elsewhere has been the important linkage between human rights reform efforts and...

Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship, and Society in Latin America.
September 1, 1997... Elizabeth Jelin and Eric Hershberg (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996). 238 pp. Underplayed in the recent literature on transitional democracies in Latin America and elsewhere has been the important linkage between human rights reform efforts...