Comment
Making Links I found the 20th Anniversary Report on the Americas (September/December 1986) exciting not only because of the discussions on the debt crisis, but also because it offered...
...However, I find that one point is particularly lacking in the publication-that of linking the problems of Latin American people with those of North American people...
...I learned much from this anniversary issue...
...M.A...
...Also, there was hardly anything on the situation of women...
...Some critical comments: I would have liked to hear from people who know what it is like to be black or American Indian in Latin America...
...Joseph Regna Medford, MA Truly Informative The 20th Anniversary issue of Report on the Americas was a truly informative and eye-opening portrait of the people beneath the ferment, the chaos, the struggle, pain and hope that is Latin America...
...Volk's citation of Kissinger's cultural garbage to a Chilean diplomat could only be called "chilling" in its callousness...
...I have been reading Report on the Americas because of the parallels between Latin American countries and my own country, the Philippines...
...Articles on the Reagan doctrine, low-intensity conflict and the debt crisis are useful not only for Third World people like me but also to North Americans if they find parallels that touch their lives...
...Steven Volk's historical essay was superior, presenting a perspective that gives breadth and scope to the current economic and political crises afflicting our brethren to the South, due to the long train of racist arrogance imposed from the North...
...Chat Canlas Institute for Policy Studies Washington, D.C...
...Making Links I found the 20th Anniversary Report on the Americas (September/December 1986) exciting not only because of the discussions on the debt crisis, but also because it offered a fresh look at the dynamism of people's movements and struggles from the perspective of those who are participating in and leading them...
...Critical Omissions From the profound cover to Dora Maria Tellez's account of the palace takeover, NACLA's 20th Anniversary issue was one of the most absorbing pieces of reading and thought I have ever seen...
...Lastly, there was little mention of environmental destruction and its impact not only on ecosystems, but also on the lives of the people who live in and must depend on those natural systems...
...Jamal Huntingdon, PA...
...it is my first exposure to a valuable chronicle of Central and South America...
Vol. 21 • May 1987 • No. 3
