| Newsbriefs | 1 |
| Taking Note | 5 |
| Ortiz, Irene & FR | |
| The Peruvian Crucible: Reflections of a Hostage | 6 |
| Canseco, Javier Diez | |
| Election Day in Chiapas: A Low-Intensity War | 10 |
| Stephen, Lynn | |
| GETTING OUR WAY Clinton's Latin America Policy | 12 |
| "The Only War We've Got". Drug Enforcement in Latin America | 13 |
| ColettaYoungers | |
| The Growing Traffic in Arms | 19 |
| Klare, Michael | |
| Clinton, NAFTA and the Politics of U.S. Trade | 22 |
| Hansen-Kuhn, Karen | |
| Waving the Big Stick: The Helms-Burton Affair | 27 |
| Smith, Wayne | |
| Development Aid: Some Small Steps Forward | 29 |
| Haugaard, Lisa | |
| The Art of Coup: A Paper Trail of Covert Actions in Guatemala | 34 |
| Doyle, Kate | |
| Reviews | 46 |
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