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NEW MEXICO BOOK PUBLISHED NACLA has just published Beyond the Border, an examination of the social, political and economic ties between Mexico and the United States. The book brings together...
...The tactic is one that could succeed...
...In its comprehensive Program, the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction outlines plans for the structure of the transitional government, including representation of the broad spectrum of anti-Somoza political and economic groups...
...Their method is that of gradually changing the ranks of bishops to bring in more "orthodox" elements, more submissive to Vatican instructions and less critical of the country's sociopolitical situation...
...the incorporation of FSLN combatants into the new National Army...
...Copies are already going quickly, so, order yours today at the same price of $5.00 (add 75c for handling and postage...
...July/August 1979 Crucial to understanding why the relationship between the two countries was opened to renegotiation, and in whose interest, it is necessary to understand the political and economic developments in both the United States and Panama in the past decade and a half...
...by James G. Goff, director of Noticias Aliadas, Lima, Peru to the United States and the impact of the growing economic crisis...
...In all these appointments the Brazilian hierarchy's special regional commissions named to advise the Vatican on candidates for h-,hops were ignored...
...Anyone interested in volunteering to work with us will be welcome...
...Become a sustainer yourself and you too will receive a free copy of Beyond the Border...
...Entirely new are an overview-analysis of the entangled web of interconnections between the two countries, labor migration tana is a member of the ultrarightist TFP (Tradition, Family, Property) movement...
...the expropriation of the Somoza family's holdings...
...We are looking for the means to hire a fulltime librarian and out-reach coordinator to assure that our unique collection of books, periodicals, and clippings files are accessible to anyone who wants to use them...
...PROGRAM OF NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT AVAILABLE FROM NACLA Nicaragua is free of the hated dictator, but where does it go from here...
...guidelines for foreign investments...
...first rate...
...control over Panama's vital natural resource, the Canal...
...We will also look at the treaty debates within the United States, drawing lessons about the various forces that fought either to maintain or reformulate U.S...
...The treaties have been signed, but the ugly battle over implementation legislation is, at the time of this writing, still being waged in the House of Representatives...
...Carey McWilliams, author of Factories in the Fields and former editor of The Nation describes the book as "timely...
...NACLA has translated this historic document and is making it available as a special pamphlet...
...In the monumental task of consolidating Nicaragua's victory, the Program's architects will undoubtedly have to struggle vehemently to defend the revolutionary interpretation of this process against those who will be contending to control the direction of Nicaragua's future in their own interest...
...The Program is defined by its creators as providing the basis for a "democratic state, for social justice, and initiates a revolutionary and nationalist process of profound transformations...
...The book brings together for the first time revised and updated materials from past NACLA Reports on border industries, Mexican labor struggles, and rural underdevelopment...
...The provisional Junta has issued a twenty-one page Program, outlining the direction of post-Somoza reconstruction in the political, economic and social arenas...
...In October, the Canal, under the new terms of agreement, will actually be handed over to Panama...
...insightful...
...For Cardinal Baggio and Bishop L6pez Trujillo, it is essential to control the Brazilian Bishops' Conference...
...It is not too late for you to join the hundreds of sustainers whose tax deductible donations have been used to move our ofNACLA Report NEWS FROM NACLAupdate * update * update * update fices to a new and larger space, to reorganize our library for public use and to support our work in general...
...THE NEXT REPORT The September-October NACLA Report looks at Panama...
...NACLA sustainers, who have donated $25 or more to help maintain and improve our research and publications, will be receiving free copies of this new book immediately...
...In the meantime we still need volunteers to help out, not only in the library, but also in other parts of our research and publishing...
...GUATEMALA BOOK BACK IN PRINT Long unavailable, NACLA's authoritative book, Guatemala, is again available for a short time on a first-order-first-serve basis...
...NACLA's pamphlet, "Nicaragua 1979: Year of Liberation," is now available from NACLA for 75s plus 25e postage and handling...
...We will examine the role of the international "free banking zone" in Panama, a project given great impetus by Torrijos...
...In particular, the Report will focus on the Torrijos regime, evaluating the political soil from which it sprang and the direction of its consolidation...
...the creation of a mixed public and private economy with state control over natural resources...
...and the provision of medical care, housing, education and other vital social services to the Nicaraguan people...
...there are presently some 50 appointments to be made to Brazilian dioceses...
...CALLING SUMMER VOLUNTEERS The library in our new offices is slowly becoming reorganized so that the public can use it...
...We have recovered 400 copies of this unique history and socio-political analysis of the rife-torn country and will sell them until they are sold out...
Vol. 13 • July 1979 • No. 4
