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CENTRAL AMERICA Liliam Jimenez, El Salvador: Sus problemas socio-economicos (Casa de las Americas, 1980). Write for price, cloth, 238 pgs. Jimenez traces the historical background of the civil...
...Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881...
...Siglo Veintiuno Editores, SA, Cerro del Agua 248, Mexico 20...
...50 Amnesty International, Guatemala-A Government Program of Political Murder (Amnesty International, 1981...
...Maintaining that liberal, Marxist and dependency analyses do not adequately explain Latin American experience, he offers an alternative based on a multi-disciplinary approach...
...role in Guatemala...
...Apuntes de historla de Nicaragua, Vol...
...20, cloth, 324 pgs...
...This collection of papers on the rural Andes grew out of an American Anthropological Association symposium...
...20009...
...They present evidence that most chemicals are used on luxury or export crops, tracing the pesticides from U.S...
...socialist struggle under parliamentary democracy and taking and keeping state power...
...An important record that grew out of the first moments of victory...
...It outlines the history, economics and politics of the current situation and suggests ways to support the Central American peoples' right to self-determination...
...First aired on National Public Radio, the program is available in 30- or 60-minute audio cassettes...
...A Hampshire College economics and history professor, Weaver traces industrial development in Latin America from its earliest forms to the present...
...60-minute cassette: $12...
...Weir and Schapiro continue the work presented in their award-winning 1979 Mother Jones expose on the dumping of U.S...
...factories to shipment abroad and back to U.S...
...Write for price, paper, 237 pgs...
...The platform of the FDR's Revolutionary Democratic Government is reproduced in translation...
...Extensive bibliography...
...A nuts-and-bolts guide to getting behind the company line and that well-polished corporate facade...
...30-minute cassette: $8...
...10003...
...Biographies of the speakers are provided...
...A good resource for community groups and researchers alike...
...Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2588 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110...
...MISCELLANEOUS David Weir and Mark Schapiro, Circle of Poison-Pesticides and People in a Hungry World (Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1981...
...24.95, cloth, $8.95 paper, 313 pgs...
...Ben Turok, ed., Revolutionary Thought in the 20th Century (Zed Press, 1980...
...Guatemala: A People Besieged (1978) is a 28-minute, 160-slide show with taped script and print materials...
...55, American Friends Service Committee...
...Amnesty's most recent report on Guatemala contains new evidence linking disappearances, torture and murderto a control center in the National Palace under the direction of President Romero Lucas Garcia...
...3.95, paper, 100 pgs...
...Central America: Roots of the Crisis (1981) is a 25-minute, 133-slide show with a taped script and print materials...
...3.50, paper, 21 pgs...
...revolutionary violence...
...Two chilling interviews are also included: the only known survivor of political imprisonment in Guatemala tells of his 11-day ordeal...
...The book's introduction states: "African cultural influence in Latin MayJune 1981 America is so pervasive but subtle that it is often overlooked...
...10003...
...Menjivar, in exile since 1972, is a leading FOR theoretician and a former university rector...
...1.25, paper, 47 pgs...
...Emphasis is on the period up to the 1969 war with Honduras...
...URPE, 41 Union Square West, New York, N.Y...
...50, American Friends Service Committee, Latin American Program, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102...
...Each chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading and helpful study questions...
...consumers, thus completing the "circle of poison...
...Write for price, paper, 226 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 36 pgs...
...Benjamin Nunez, Dictionary of Afro-American Civilization (Greenwood Press, 1980...
...The book is based on compilations from older publications and more than 70 hours of taped interviews...
...Institute for Policy Studies, 1901 Q Street, N.W., Washington, D.C...
...L1.50, paper, 88 pgs...
...10019...
...Department of the Interior, 1980, 15 pgs...
...Extensive bibliography...
...Latin America Bureau Ltd., P.O...
...Pathfinder Press, 410 West Street, New York, N.Y...
...Stephen Rose, Joan Hoffman, Morton Greenhouse and Nat Spero, How to Research a Corporation (Union for Radical Political Economics, 1980...
...Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA 70803...
...Making use of extensive sources abroad, the authors explode the myth that pesticides help feed the world's hungry...
...Guatemala: Prelude to a Struggle is a radio documentary on human rights violations and the U.S...
...An important resource for observers and supporters of the Salvadorean struggle...
...Van Dijk, a law professor at Utrecht University, analyzes the human rights provisions of the new Chilean constitution in light of the country's "obligations" under international law...
...Available from Lawrence Hill and Co., 520 Riverside Ave., Westport, CT 06880...
...Holmes and Meier Publishers, IUB Building, 30 Irving Place, New York, N.Y...
...A Salvadorean journalist and poet, Jimenez works for the Soviet news agency, Novosti, in Mexico...
...The history was written with the blessings and cooperation of corporate executives and the founders' descendants who opened company archives to the writer...
...Programa economico de austeridad y eficiencla-81 Ano de la defensa y la produccion...
...I and II, (National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, History Section of the Department of Social Sciences, 1980, 435 pgs...
...3.95, paper, 32 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 37 pgs...
...Pathfinder Press, Revolt in El Salvador (Pathfinder Press, 1980...
...Carlos Nunez, La reaccion y sus ejes de enfrentamiento ideologico...
...EDUCA, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, Costa Rica...
...The major political parties and trade unions are dealt with individually...
...Rejecting previous interpretations, the authors attempt to lay out a model NACLA Reportupdate * update . update * update for understanding agrarian economies and social processes based on the peasant household...
...LATIN AMERICA Pieter van Dijk, The Chilean Constitution in Light of Chile's International Legal Obligations in the Field of Human Rights (Foundation for Legal Aid in Chile, 1980...
...35.50, cloth, 260 pgs...
...and an Indian conscript talks about the brainwashing of new soldiers, how targets were chosen, seized, tortured and finally murdered...
...A collection of articles on the current struggle reprinted from Fourth International publications, The Militant and Intercontinental Press and the Cuban daily, Granma...
...Latin America Bureau, Bolivia: Coup d'Etat (Latin America Bureau, 1980...
...The report is part of a collection of studies on the constitution "legalizing" military rule...
...Chapters deal with sources, questions to ask, understanding profits as laid out in annual reports and Interpreting wages and benefits...
...The show documents U.S...
...Some valuable information, but don't expect to find any revealing secrets...
...y G, El Vedado, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba...
...Thomas L. Karnes, Tropical Enterprise-Standard Fruit and Steamship Company in Latin America (Louisiana State University Press, 1980...
...A study guide in revolutionary thought presented through the writings of practitioners from Marx and Engels to Spain's Santiago Carillo and Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap...
...The Public Media Foundation, 15 Pleasant Place, Cambridge, MA 02139...
...In this excellent reference book Nunez provides definitions of terms and phrases, bibliographies of Latin Americans of African descent and information on historical events...
...pesticides in the third world...
...28.50, cloth, 247 pgs...
...The most important documents of the current period appear in an appendix beginning with the Armed Forces' proclamation following the October 1979 coup and ending with the FOR platform...
...Stichting Rechtshulp Chili, Janskerhof 16, 3512 BM, Utrecht, Netherlands...
...NICARAGUA Richard R. Fagen, The Nicaraguan Revolution- A Personal Report (Institute for Policy Studies, 1981...
...An appendix of four documents in translation presents the raging ideological struggle involving the FSLN, the bourgeois opposition and the Church...
...Well illustrated by six pages of black and white photos...
...aid to the regime, the roots of resistance and three groups affiliated with the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR): the Farabundo Marti People's Liberation Forces (FPL), the Communist Party and the People's Revolutionary Army-Party of the Salvadorean Revolution (ERP-PRS...
...A brief and useful overview of Bolivian history from 1952 to the July 1980 coup...
...Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881...
...Personal testimonies from leaders of the Nicaraguan revolution on the struggle from 1956 to the 1979 victory...
...Transcript: $3...
...Frederick Stirton Weaver, Class, State and Industrial Structure-The Historical Process of South American Industrial Growth (Greenwood Press, 1980...
...Ministry of Planning, 180 pgs...
...Box 134, London NWI, 4JY...
...Available in Spanish...
...The work is a useful companion to the researcher and makes for lively reading for etymology buffs and those interested in Afro-Latin culture...
...We have received the following recent publications from Nicaragua: Tomas Borge M., Hacla el partldo de la revolucion Sandinista...
...Write for price, cloth, 525 pgs...
...A series of articles and essays analyze the current situation in light of relations with the United States, the Church, the Central American region and the forces allied against the Junta...
...Jimenez traces the historical background of the civil war from a perspective of social formations in a style that is accessible, she hopes, to non-scholars...
...involvement and raises questions for the future...
...Karnes traces the company that brings us Dole bananas from its founding by four Sicilian immigrants to 1968 when it became a subsidiary of Castle and Cooke...
...Benjamin S. Orlove and Glynn Custred, ed., Land and Power In Latin America (Holmes and Meier, 1980...
...Department of Propaganda and Political Education of the FSLN, 1981, 33 pgs...
...Articles address U.S...
...Rafael Menjivar, El Salvador: El eslabon mas pequena (Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1980...
...Pilar Arias, NIcaragua: Revolucion, relates de combatientes del Frente Sandinista (Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1980...
...A good foundation for understanding the current situation...
...Turok, a South African in exile, has chosen texts which delve into crucial questions facing any revolutionary struggle-the nature and conditions of proletarian versus national, democratic revolutions...
...Casa de las Americas, 3ra...
...10014...
...Amnesty International, 304 West 58th Street, New York, N.Y...
...A sympathetic look at free Nicaragua's first 18 monthswhere power lies, plans for reconstruction and challenges the country faces...
Vol. 15 • May 1981 • No. 3
