Hemisphere articles from June 1997

Hemisphere archives from June 1997

Remembering James Nelson Goodsell. (periodista)(TA: journalist)
June 22, 1997... Jim, as many dinosaurs, had grown increasingly concerned about the state of journalism and particularly foreign reporting in the modern age. Jim Goodsell, the long-time Latin American correspondent from the Christian Science Monitor had...

Popular participation Bolivian style: decentralizing political and economic power.
June 22, 1997... When President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, the author of the 1985 draconian neoliberal reform which curbed Bolivia's hyperinflation, took office on August 6, 1993, few were willing to concede that his ambitious Plan de Todos (Plan for All)...

How real is the Plano Real?: controversy over the thrust of economic reform. (Brasil)(TA: Brazil)
June 22, 1997... On July 1, 1996, the Plano Real (Real Plan), Brazil's most watched, ongoing national event, turned two years old. Fernando Henrique Cardoso depended upon the plan's initial success in reducing Brazil's chronic mega-inflation to carry him to...

Back to basics: the one message, basic rights! (el ambiente político, económico y social en Colombia)(TA: Colombia's political, economic and social environmet)
June 22, 1997... Is the second oldest democracy of Latin America in "clear and present danger" of destruction? Novelist Tom Clancy and the US government would assumedly answer `apparently.' On March 1, 1996, eight months before the US presidential vote, the...

One step forward, ten steps back: in the clutches of the past. (breve análisis sobre los eventos políticos y económicos en Cuba)(TA: brief analysis about Cuba's economic and politiacl events)
June 22, 1997... Cuban society is facing a very complex economic and political situation. The events surrounding the February 24, 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft and the subsequent announcement from the Communist Party politburo of a new ideological...

Perspectives on regional trade: CARICOM, MERCOSUR and NAFTA revisited. (análisis sobre los tratados comerciales entre Estados Unidos, México, países de América del Sur y el Caribe)(TA: analysis about trade agreements between the US, Mexico, and countires from South America and the Caribbean)
June 22, 1997... Four University of North Florida professors,(1) who recently completed a two-year study under the auspices of a grant from the United States Department of Education, concluded that the "opening" of Cuba will have a greater impact upon the...

Unearthing grassroots power. (América Latina)(TA: Latin America)
June 22, 1997... The fate of tropical forests has captured the imagination of the world for over a decade. Many studies have diagnosed the proximate and deeper causes of deforestation and sketched out policy proposals to stem, halt, or reverse the process. In...

Insider briefs on people and institutions shaping Latin American and Caribbean affairs.
June 22, 1997... Lather Up with Hemp California voters gave patients who suffer from certain diseases the right to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes last November. Jamaica had another idea about what to do with hemp. In August, the ministry of...

The last hurrah: the end of ethnic politics in Suriname.
June 22, 1997... Newspapers in the United States and, especially, the Netherlands, trumpeted the May 1996 victory of the multiethnic New Front over former military commander and one-time dictator Desi Bouterse's National Democratic Front (NDP) as Suriname's...

Unwanted fame: Dominican Republic, headquarters for narcotraffickers.
June 22, 1997... While President Leonel Fernandez has committed his new administration to an agenda to consolidate democracy and provide economic opportunities in the Dominican Republic, another potentially corrosive process is underway in this country. In...

The European connection: a regional approach to fighting drugs in the Caribbean.
June 22, 1997... To the Latin American drug trafficker, the Caribbean represents just one entity through which the merchandise can pass to reach the lucrative markets of the United States and Europe. The drug trafficker ignores--but at the same time...

A photographic retrospective: from the archives of the late James Nelson Goodsell. (periodista)(TA: journalist)
June 22, 1997... James Nelson Goodsell passed away in January 1996, leaving behind a legacy of thirty years of coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean for the Christian Science Monitor. Those who knew his work and his character remember Goodsell's...

The United States and the Caribbean.
June 22, 1997... The United States and the Caribbean by Anthony P. Maingot, Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. The works under review bring a new perspective to the analysis of the relations between the hemisphere's Leviathan and Lilliputians. At first glance,...

Caribbean Maritime Security.
June 22, 1997... Caribbean Maritime Security by Michael A. Morris, London: Macmillan, 1994. The works under review bring a new perspective to the analysis of the relations between the hemisphere's Leviathan and Lilliputians. At first glance, The United...