Hemisphere articles from September 1998

Hemisphere archives from September 1998

The rediscovery of Latinos: America's fastest-growing minority still comes as a surprise. (comentario)(TA: commentary)
September 22, 1998... CNN has discovered us at last. The network recently reported the extraordinary growth of the Spanish-language media in the US, a phenomenon that is not new but which CNN--along with millions of North Americans--has only just noticed. The tone of...

Winds of change: Cuban-Americans in the post-papal era.
September 22, 1998... With the fall of the Berlin War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire in the late 1980s, Cuban-Americans began to speak enthusiastically about a post-Castro era. Many in the community expected that the Cuban regime would soon succumb to the same...

Stones in the Water: the ongoing struggle for human rights in Haiti.
September 22, 1998... The military regime that ousted democratically elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power in a September 1991 coup ruled Haiti until a US military intervention returned the priest-turned-president to Port-au-Prince in October of 1994. During the...

Guatemala's critical juncture: rethinking concepts of democracy.
September 22, 1998... Guatemala's transition from military rule has been slow and difficult, at times traumatic. Today the country stands at a critical juncture, when the danger of reversals is palpable. In December 1996, the mood was optimistic as the government of...

Beyond the Washington Consensus: dissenting thoughts on democracy, equity and market economics. (breve análisis sobre la 2 Cumbre de las Americas en Chile)(TA: brief analysis of the 2 Summit of the Americas in Chile)
September 22, 1998... Calls for strengthening democracy and combating poverty rivaled economic integration and trade-related issues for center stage at the Santiago Summit. A foretaste of this discourse came shortly before the Summit at a meeting of the Montevideo...

Islands apart: the Caribbean struggles to keep pace with free trade.
September 22, 1998... Since the early 1980s, neoliberal views on economic policy have acquired increasing prominence throughout the world. The notion of the superior efficiency, rationality and dynamism of the private entrepreneur and the marketplace has become the...

Mercosur in the new global order. (análisis)(TA: analysis)
September 22, 1998... Within the next 10 to 20 years, the post-Cold War world will face a choice between two main alternatives for structuring the international system. The first is a type of Pax Americana, which implies the expansion and consolidation of the United...

Canada's southern exposure: Latina America's northernmost neighbor takes an interest in hemispheric affairs. (breve análisis sobre las relaciones comerciales entre América Latina y el Canadá)(TA: brief analysis about the trade relations between Latin America and Canada)
September 22, 1998... In January 1998, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada, with a coterie of provincial premiers, business-people and university presidents, led the largest-ever Canadian trade mission to Latin America. The "Team Canada" mission, which involved...

Distant brothers: the Central American diaspora.
September 22, 1998... Hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans fled their countries in the 1980s, mostly for the United States. Most were escaping various forms of political instability and repression, as well as economic crises and social...

Lives at crossroads: Salvadorans in the US.
September 22, 1998... The United States' ethnic mosaic has a new and important ingredient: Salvadorans. The 1990 US census counted 565,000 Salvadorans in this country, although some scholars say the number is closer to one million, equivalent to one-sixth of the total...

Bridging the ideological divide: forces for reconciliation in the Cuban and Cuban-American communities.
September 22, 1998... On a recent balmy evening in Miami Beach, hundreds of people gathered for a concert by a visiting musician from Cuba. Issac Delgado played his vibrant salsa rhythms to a packed house at the Onyx night club and in one night shattered the ice that...

Lengua franca. (extractos de tres poemas)(TT: Honest language) (TA: excerpts from three poems)
September 22, 1998... Las girls van de compras para gourmet food It's Irene who first tells me to check out the canned tripas or was it canned menudo? In the aisles of el supermercado. Y de volada I call las girls-- who are game. Once in the tiendota, they run...

Life on the margins. (familias mexicanas en la frontera México-Estados Unidos)(TA: Mexican families in the US-Mexican border)
September 22, 1998... The temperature exceeded 100 degrees as the sun pierced the earth. A fierce breeze lifted dust from hundreds of unpaved roads in Matamoros, a rapidly expanding city on the US-Mexican border. These inferno-like conditions hardly deterred the...

Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America.
September 22, 1998... Identity Crisis Still reeling from the civil rights movement's efforts to end the separate and unequal structure of its race and class system, the United States is in grave danger of repeating the same mistakes with a new segment of the...

Latinos in the US. (literatura sobre Latinos en los Estados Unidos)(TA: literature about Latinos in the US)
September 22, 1998... Latinos constitute the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. Separated by regional differences yet united by a common cultural heritage, they are a force to be reckoned with in US society. Their influence is felt in politics,...