In Review
The Uncompromising Revolution, a film by Saul Landau (available from IPS, 1601 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009), 1988, 78 min., $300 (VHS cassette purchase), $900 (16mm purchase),...
...They have done the painstaking homework and the original analytical thinking of which so few seem capable...
...Case 1/1989: End of the Cuban Connection, Editorial Jos6 Marti (available from Fred Hoffman, P.O...
...XXLV, No.1), Alfredo C6sar is identified as the secretary of Nicaragua's National Assembly...
...This accessible book provides us with a synthesis of the thought of all of Cuba's major pensadores, and as such offers important insight into the philosophy of this Hemisphere's only socialist regime...
...The counterpoint between the Fidel Castro of 1968 and the lucid yet aging statesman of today far outshadows anything else the film tries to portray, and makes it well worth watching...
...In Trish O'Kane's article "The New Old Order" (Vol...
...Due to an editing error, Jenny Pearce's article "The People's War," in the same issue, gives the impression that the Uni6n Patri6tica (UP) was founded at the exclusive initiative of the FARC guerrillas...
...The UP was in fact set up by the FARC's allies, the Communist Party, although the FARC wielded significant and perhaps preponderant influence...
...COMING UP NEXT: Cuba and the United States Most writing on Cuba's economy is based on political prejudice and faulty CIA-supplied data...
...by Sandor Halebsky and John M. Kirk, Praeger, 1990, 285 pp., $45 (cloth), $17.95 (paper...
...Catholics...
...Roots of Revolution: Radical Thought in Cuba by Sheldon B. Liss, Univ...
...6), erroneously affirms that the Stealth bomber (B-2, ATB) was used in the U.S...
...The scarcity of works on contemporary Paraguayan politics is, as the author notes, "sad, almost shocking...
...Women and Social Change in Latin America by Elizabeth Jelin (ed...
...A compilation of research by Latin American feminist scholars...
...Box 26642, Los Angeles, CA 90026), 1989, 440 pp., $9.95 (cloth...
...He was a candidate for that post...
...The Uncompromising Revolution, a film by Saul Landau (available from IPS, 1601 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009), 1988, 78 min., $300 (VHS cassette purchase), $900 (16mm purchase), $150 (16mm rental...
...Plenty of concrete data enlivens what would otherwise be an unmanageably broad subject area...
...The Stroessner Era: Authoritarian Rule in Paraguay by Carlos Miranda, Westview Press, 1990, 177 pp., $33.50 (cloth...
...A critical analysis of the techniques used by Cuba's leaders to develop a common revolutionary ethos among the population...
...invasion...
...Even if this were not the case, Zimbalist and Brundenius' evaluation would be ground-breaking...
...Zed Books, 1990, 226 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $15 (paper...
...of Nebraska Press, 1987, 269 pp., $21.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper...
...The author also examines Hispanic American Protestantism...
...Here is the government's version of the events, culled from extensive trial transcripts, newspaper coverage and court evidence...
...A timely collection of articles by well-known Cuba scholars which follows upon the editors' 1984 volume, Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution...
...The Cuban Economy: Measurement and Analysis of Socialist Performance by Andrew Zimbalist and Claes Brundenius, Johns Hopkins Univ...
...Corrections Ratil Leis' article on Panama, "The Other Side of Midnight" (Vol...
...The complexity of the allies' relationship was lost...
...It looks at the struggles Hispanics have waged to overcome discrimination and marginalization within the Catholic Church, and implicitly admonishes the hierarchy to sit up and take notice: By the end of the century, Hispanics will constitute the majority of U.S...
...Traditional Church history has been written from the perspective of those who wield power...
...Landau's portrait is a conversation with Fidel Castro that ranges over as many kilometers as it does subjects, peppered with the comments of Cubans on the street and in their homes, and with clips from his 1968 movie "Fidel...
...XXIII, No...
...Cuba: The Shaping of Revolutionary Consciousness by Tzvi Medin, Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1990, 191 pp., $30.00 (cloth...
...Though hard-going at times for the nonspecialist, it is nonetheless a top-notch book...
...Transformation and Struggle: Cuba Faces the 1990s ed...
...Like its predecessor, this book gives a positive account of the revolution, while it examines with depth and breadth the dilemmas and flawed strategies of Cuban socialism...
...Medin examines the contents of the revolutionary message, the channels used to convey it-including popular music, poetry, fiction and film -and the efforts to meld socialist ideology with Cuban nationalism...
...On the Move: A History of the Hispanic Church in the United States by Mois6s Sandoval, Orbis Books, 1990, 152 pp., $8.95 (paper...
...A final chapter provides some clues as to how the army, business associations, labor unions, and the Catholic Church could contribute to political change...
...This book is Church history from below...
...Case studies from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil range from mothers' groups to women unionists...
...This books contains few surprises: Stroessner is depicted as the quintessential caudillo with an acute knowledge of and ability to manipulate the peculiarities of Paraguayan politics, long seeped in authoritarian tradition...
...Radical nationalism, in particular, has been the guiding light of Cuban politics for over a century...
...Of particular interest is a chapter by the Andean Oral History Workshop on the patterns of resistance in Aymara and Quechua indigenous communities...
...The plane used was the Stealth fighter-bomber (F-1 17A), a smaller plane which utilizes the same "stealth" technology...
...The trial of 13 high government officials for drug trafficking last year, and the subsequent execution of four of them, provoked intense speculation among Cuba-watchers and a scandal of major proportions on the island...
...Press, 1989, 220 pp., $38 (cloth...
...Few countries have a tradition of radical thought as rich as Cuba's...
Vol. 24 • August 1990 • No. 2
