Hemisphere articles from January 1998

Hemisphere archives from January 1998

Staying the course: despite its flaws, neoliberalism is here today. (América Latina)(TA: Latin America)
January 1, 1998... During a Buenos Aires protest march last year against President Carlos Menem's neoliberal economic program, the usual jeers and cries were suddenly rivaled by a new chant. "Bucaram! Bucaram!" the crowd howled in unison. Far from a cry of...

Seeking 'A New Path'. (análisis sobre la reunión de varios políticos latinoamericanos; incluye artículo relacionado)(TA: analysis about a meeting of various Latin American politicians; includes related article)
January 1, 1998... Will the defeat of President Clinton's "fast track" authority to sign new free trade agreements generate a backlash in Latin America? Will the increasingly powerful center-left coalitions in Mexico and Argentina shift away from a US-proposed...

Mexico's nine-fingered president: can Zedillo hold the PRI without the dedazo? (Ernesto Zedillo, presidente de México)(TA: Ernesto Zedillo, president of Mexico)
January 1, 1998... In Mexico City, storytellers like to regale visitors with tales of Mexican heroes' missing appendages. Some insist that nineteenth-century dictator Antonio Lopez Santa Ana buried a lost leg amid pomp and circumstance. Others recall the...

Patrolling the polls: Jamaica moves towards peaceful elections.
January 1, 1998... Since Jamaica's democratic system took root in 1944 with universal adult suffrage, national politics have been characterized by a regular pendulum swing of two terms each for the island's main political forces, the People's National Party...

Frontiers of development: local governments in Latin America play an important role in promoting economic growth and democracy.
January 1, 1998... Perhaps the most interesting aspect of any discussion regarding the role of local government in promoting economic development in Latin America is simply the fact that it is occurring. Such a discussion would have been virtually unheard of...

Cleaning up free trade. (análisis sobre las desventajas del Tratado de Libre Comercio)(TA: analysis of the disadvantages of the North American Free Trade Agreement)
January 1, 1998... In 1993, opponents of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) felt certain that its implementation would increase pollution and further degrade environmental conditions along the Mexico-United States border. Already, decades...

The left as arbiter: implementing neoliberal reform in Bolivia.
January 1, 1998... On August 6, 1997, former military dictator General Hugo Banzer Suarez became Bolivia's fifth constitutional president since the country returned to democratic rule in 1982. With a plurality of only 21%, Banzer's rightist political party,...

Democratic constraints to reform: the slow pace of privatization in Costa Rica.
January 1, 1998... Costa Rica has little to show for its experience with privatization. Even after three structural adjustment loans from the World Bank in a little over a decade--1985, 1989 and 1993--the Costa Rican government has implemented a slow, shallow,...

Political costs of privatization. (la modernización económica en América Latina resulta en privatización)(TA: economic modernization in Latin America results in privatization)
January 1, 1998... After the debt crisis of the early 1980s, Latin America's leaders were forced to articulate new economic strategies to check inflation and renew the trust of international creditors. The last decade has seen an intensification of this process...

Contemporary 'slavery' in Brazil: Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, but labor exploitation persists.
January 1, 1998... Slave labor remains one of the leading social calamities of the later twentieth century. So many are the victims and the countries that violate international conventions prohibiting slavery chat the UN has created a special group to study...

The Capital Revolution in Latin America.
January 1, 1998... The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America by Paul Craig Roberts and Karen LaFollette Araujo New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 213 pages. $25. Neoliberalism's impact on Latin America and the Caribbean has been widely debated. As this...

Neoliberalism in Latin America. (breves notas sobre publicaciones sobre latinoamérica)(TA: brief news about publications about Latin America)
January 1, 1998... Neoliberalism has been the dominant ideology governing Latin American economics, politics and society in the latter part of the twentieth century. Yet, as most sources agree, the neoliberal model has lost support or, at the very least, been...