New Resources
NICARAGUA George Black, Triumph of the People-The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua (Zed Press, 1981). $9.95, paper, 367 pgs. Black, fortified with years of Latin America solidarity work in...
...Mario Posas, El movimiento campesino hondureno, 50 pgs...
...and Reynaldo Salinas Lopez, El petroleo eon las antillas y controamerica, 46 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 237 pgs...
...Edna Acosta-Belen, ed., La mujer en la sociedad puertorriquena (Ediciones Huracan, 1980...
...Praeger Publishers, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017...
...Accessible language and format are designed to encourage wide readership and debate...
...Rich in anecdotes, Diederich skillfully interweaves the rise and fall of the Somoza family with the country's history...
...The final essay is as fine a hymn as can be found to this popular hero...
...Avenida Gonzales 1002, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico...
...Dutton, 2 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016...
...Gregorio Selser, Sandino (Monthly Review Press, 1981...
...Most of the material presented has received better treatment previously...
...Roberta Ann Johnson, Puerto Rico: Commowealth or Colony...
...fiction...
...Johnson's book is one more contribution to the already long list of superficial "primers" on the island...
...Rodney examines the severe constraints of nature and geography as a background for locating class formation and political alliances...
...This is the first volume of Rodney's study which was to locate Guyana's unique development from a Caribbean plantation society to a modern capitalist economy, a study which was cut short by his political assassination in 1980...
...Analyzed are the 1967 plebiscite rejecting independence, political movements, independistas' weakness and, based on personal interviews, the career of Munoz Marin...
...CARIBBEAN Juan Bosch, De Cristobal Colon a Fidel Castro-el Caribe, frontera imperial (Editorial Alfa y Omega, 1981...
...Important as an historical reference as well as discussion of the obstacles and issues now facing the revolution...
...Gullermo Molina Chocano, Centroamerica, la crisis del viejo orden, 33 pgs...
...Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 21218...
...E.P...
...English and Spanish bibliography includes references from throughout Latin America...
...Weissberg, a North American journalist, lives in Managua...
...The status of women in Puerto Rican society is examined historically and today in a series of papers stemming from a 1976 symposium...
...Black, fortified with years of Latin America solidarity work in Europe and excellent Nicaraguan contacts, provides an extremely thorough and readable account from Sandino to the Sandinistas' struggles to build a new Nicaragua in the face of incredible opposition...
...The text is rich in images and language usage, making for pleasurable reading...
...Beginning with the earliest European penetration, the author concludes with the 1961 defeat of U.S...
...Arnold Weissberg, Nicaragua-An Introduction to the Sandinista Revolution (Pathfinder Press, 1981...
...11.95, paper, 199 pgs...
...6.95, paper, 282 pgs...
...Piso, Apartado Postal 1843, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, C.A...
...SOUTH AMERICA Walter Rodney, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981...
...1.50 each, paper...
...Editorial Universitaria Centroamericano, Apartado 64, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, Costa Rica...
...Bosch says his book is not written for erudites, but hopes that this one-volume history of the Caribbean is comprehensible to a wide audience...
...Praeger, 1980...
...labor market...
...Monthly Review Press, 62 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011...
...invasion...
...CENTRAL AMERICA Mario Posas, Luchas del movimiento obrero hondureno (Editorial Universitaria Centroamericano, 1981...
...19.75, cloth, 352 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 740 pgs...
...A reprint of the 1970 work by Bosch, historian, political leader, and former Dominican president who was robbed of his office by the 1965 U.S...
...An English translation of the 1978 Spanishlanguage work, this book is more a history of Nicaragua from the 1820s to Sandino's murder in 1933 than a biography of the man who inspired a revolution...
...Bernard Diederich, Somoza-And the Legacy of U.S...
...These short introductions are the first in a series of pamphlets to address timely topics concerning Honduras and the rest of Central America...
...Ediciones Huracan, Inc...
...Editorial Guaymuras, 1981...
...Chapters address women's participation in various settings: social movements (feminism...
...Involvement in Central America (E.P...
...Dutton, 1981...
...16, cloth...
...Based largely on newspaper accounts, the book spans form 1916 to 1955, focusing on the workers' fight for union recognition, the important JanlFebl1982 strike of 1954 and its consequences...
...Pathfinder Press, 410 West Street, New York, NY 10014...
...26.50, cloth...
...This brief pamphlet fulfills the promise of its name by placing the Sandinistas' struggle in an historical context, outlining problems the new power holders face, praising the revolution's accomplishments and candidly discussing the pitfalls and challenges of the Nicaraguan model...
...95, paper, 47 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 274 pgs...
...Of particular interest is the role of race used to divide workers and thwart the rise of a peasant class...
...Labor activities in the banana sector are the subject of this thorough work by a Honduran sociology professor...
...Johnson documents the political subordination of Puerto Rico from Spanish times to the late 70s...
...250 pgs...
...The brutal and flamboyant Somoza dictatorship is unveiled in a firsthand account by a Time magazine correspondent with 15 years experience in Central America...
...Available from Lawrence Hill & Co., 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880...
...Coleccion Cuadernos 1,2,3, Editorial Guaymuras, Edificio Guillen, 20...
...69, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana...
...imperialism at the Bay of Pigs, an event which he says signaled the beginning of a new epoch in Caribbean history...
...sexual relations...
...Editorial Alfa y Omega, Jose Contreras no...
Vol. 16 • January 1982 • No. 1
