| In Brief | 1 |
| Open Forum | 4 |
| Jara, Ernesto de la | |
| Taking Note | 7 |
| JAK | |
| Brazil's New Old Order | 8 |
| Zaveruche, Jorge | |
| Post Cold War Latin America In the Eagle's Shadow | 11 |
| Washington and the Caudillos: Calculation and Miscalculation in Managua | 12 |
| Bendaña, Alejandro | |
| Colombia at the Crossroads: The Future of the Peace Accords | 17 |
| Richani, Nazih | |
| Frozen Relations: Washington and Cuba after the Cold War | 21 |
| Hernández, Rafael | |
| Free Trade Area of the Americas: NAFTA Marches South | 27 |
| Katz, Claudio | |
| Brazil: Neoliberal Decades Bring Down "Emerging Power" | 28 |
| Sader, Emir | |
| Mexico's Haves and Have-Nots: NAFTA Sharpens the Divided | 32 |
| Salas, Carlos | |
| Retiring on the Free Market: Chile's Privatized Social Security | 36 |
| Lear, John & Collins, Joseph | |
| Peru: Cleaning Up After Fujimori | 42 |
| Ugarteche, Oscar |
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