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LATIN AMERICA John Child, Unequal Alliance: The Inter-American Military System, 1938-1978 (Westview Press, 1980). $22 cloth, 253 pgs. The author, an officer in the U.S. Army and member of the...
...Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301...
...25 cloth, $16.95 paper, 546 pgs...
...Holly Sklar, ed., Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management (South End Press, 1980...
...Lawrence Hill and Co., 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880...
...version...
...Part I contains short essays on the nature of underdevelopment in Latin America, a history of organized labor in the region, an overview of international trade union organizations, etc...
...Isn't food aid necessary in emergencies...
...Frances Moore Lapp6, Joseph Collins, David Kinley, Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions about our Foreign Aid and the Hungry (Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1980...
...Nine essays on U.S.-Latin American relations which tend to be general in their observations and academic in their presentation...
...An excellent set of essays for history and for now...
...Universi- ty of Texas Press, PO Box 7819, Austin, TX 78712...
...Latin America Bureau, Europe and Latin America: An Annual Review of European-Latin American Relations, 1980 (Latin America Bureau, 1980...
...Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ayer Building, Lawrence, MA 01843...
...Freed's book asks the questions and, with a tremendous amount of research, answers them...
...This short study documents the rise of Stroessner, his long period of rule and the current period of repression in the country...
...foreign policy and the levels of U.S...
...Editorial El Conejo, Casilla 4629-A, Quito, Ecuador...
...Doesn't U.S...
...Seven essays on political economy and political theory which include two articles on capital and the state, an overview of the accumulation of industrial capital in Colombia, and an interesting piece on the implications of the Bakke decision...
...Includes three essays on Mexican migration and the U.S...
...Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, PO Box 566, 2501 CN The Hague, Netherlands...
...Viking Press, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022...
...Is Trilateralism dead with the New Right in power...
...Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016...
...Extremely useful book on a country whose history remains neglected...
...Highly recommended...
...Of particular interest are the essays on European direct investment in Brazil and "Europe and Latin America: The Nuclear Connection...
...5.50 paper, 86 pgs...
...labor force...
...17.50 cloth, $4.95 paper, 230 pgs...
...An important account of CIA activities in Chile and FBI, CIA, etc., activities in the United States...
...Excellent high school curriculum which brings together in one book population issues, our system of food production, the health risks of the American diet and ways it can be changed...
...The second part analyzes U.S...
...Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S...
...University of Toronto Press, 33 East Tupper St., Buffalo, NY 14203...
...Army and member of the faculty of the Inter-American Defense College, provides some inside information on the functioning of the "Inter-American Military System...
...25 cloth, 276 pgs...
...John D. Martz and* Lars Schoultz, eds., Latin America, the United States and the Inter-American System (Westview Press, 1980...
...Everything you wanted to know about the Trilateral Commission and were afraid might be true...
...Post looks at the uprising as an index of the uneven development of the peasantry and the working class and shows how it is necessary to understand this process in order to understand the rebellion...
...Available in the United States from: Kluwer Boston, Inc., 160 Old Derby Street, Hingham, MA 02043...
...global NACLA Report update update update update policy from the perspective of patron-client relations...
...8 paper, 604 pgs...
...FOREIGN POLICY John L.S...
...New Mexico People and Energy, PO Box 4726, Albuquerque, NM 87196...
...Food and Nutrition Group, Boston Science for the People, Feed, Need, Greed...
...Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 08540...
...Yet its main purpose is not to disclose secrets, and the jargon and ideological claptrap make its reading quite tortuous...
...A series of essays which reinterpret some major areas of U.S...
...Schryer examines how a landowning class turned against the Diaz government and recruited their owr employees and tenants to fight for the revolutionary cause...
...Charles Teller, Leo Estrada, Jos6 Herndndez and David Alvirez, eds., Cuantos Somos: A Demographic Study of the Mexican-American Population (Center for Mexican- American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1977...
...Latin America Bureau, PO Box 134, London NW1 4JY, England...
...Columbia University Press, 562 W. 113th Street, New York, NY 10025...
...Carlos Franqui, Diary of the Cuban Revolution (Viking Press, 1980...
...Central to Brody's study is the struggle of workers to assert control over their working lives versus the determination of U.S...
...The book was written by a group which has met regularly since 1972 to examine the women's movement in Latin America...
...9 including air mail postage, paper, 101 pgs...
...5.95 paper, 129 pgs...
...The first section examines the causes of revolution in the Third World and questions the validity of a general theory of revolution...
...Following a rapid summary of the various policy op- tions available to the government (open the border, close the border, do nothing), the authors recommend establishing a "guest worker" program to bring in hundreds of thousands of Mexicans on short work visas, and then closing down the border to prevent others from entering...
...29.50 cloth, 290 pgs...
...The New Mexico Power Structure Report (NMPE, 1980...
...As a philosophical approach to the issue of human rights, Shue's book can be tedious at times...
...Latin America Bureau, Unity is Strength: Trade Unions in Latin America...
...Guerrero's study examines the emergence of Ecuador's coastal oligarchy and its development as a class...
...12.95 cloth, $6.95 paper, 254 pgs...
...Those concerned with the rights of the un- docpmented at the present time would do well to read this account...
...Food, Resources & Population (Science for the People, 1980...
...24.50 cloth, 271 pgs...
...An examination of migrant workers in the agricultural sector of 14 East Coast states which combines both statistical survey research and descriptive analysis...
...If it did, Donald Freed would have had a lot of questions for George Bush concerning the assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington in 1976...
...Science for the People, 897 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139...
...The Institute for Food and Development Policy has developed a style of pedagogical writing which is to be admired...
...2.50 paper, 52 pgs...
...June Nash, We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines (Columbia University Press, 1979...
...The author contributes greatly to our understanding of the origins of capitalist accumulation in Ecuador and the process by which it was tied into world capitalist markets...
...A fascinating book...
...40 paper, 502 pgs...
...He broke with the Cuban government in the 1960s...
...As the title states, this is a "power structure" study of New Mexico...
...Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2588 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110...
...It would be nice to have 49 more reports like this on the other states...
...Foreign Policy (Princeton University Press, 1980...
...More importantly, the essays on Trilateralism and the "Crisis of Democracy" show clearly how Trilateral ideology paved the way for a hard turn to the right...
...John Dorschner and Roberto Fabricio, The Winds of December: Cuba 1958 (Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1980...
...Orlando Leteller (Lawrence Hill & Co., 1980...
...Dorothea Mezger, Copper in the World Economy (Monthly Review Press, 1980...
...The author argues, contrary to most researchers, that the rancheros of central Mexico constituted a significant political force during and after the revolution...
...14.95 cloth, 257 pgs...
...Andros Guerrero, Los oligarcas del cacao (El Conejo, 1980...
...15.95 cloth, 552 pgs...
...4.95 paper, 191 pgs...
...MISCELLANEOUS David Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (Oxford University Press, 1980...
...Paul Zarembka, ed., Research in Political Economy, Vol...
...3.95 paper, 75 pgs...
...A recreation of the Cuban revolution as it unfolded in late 1958 and early 1959, written by two reporters from the "Miami Herald...
...foreign policy, besides protecting the basic political rights of individuals, should also protect their "minimum economic security": unpolluted air and water, adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, etc...
...JAI Press, 165 Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830...
...Shue contends that U.S...
...IEPALA, El Salvador y su historia and Monsefior Oscar A. Romero, "Cese la Represi6n" (both from iEPALA, 1980...
...25 cloth,363 pgs...
...Yet his arguments for the acceptance of "economic rights" as an important ingredient of basic rights is well reasoned...
...1.95 paper, 92 pgs...
...After studying three main groups of migrants (Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Blacks) and comparing migrant workers with non-migrant workers, the study con- cludes that (undefined) government measures should be implemented to halt the entry of new workers into the migratory farm labor stream and that the govern- ment should pass legislation to encourage farm workers to unionize and thus strengthen their bargain- ing power...
...University of Texas Press, PO Box 7819, Austin, TX 78712...
...Sidney Weintraub and Stanley R. Ross, The Illegal Allen from Mexico: Policy Choices for an Intractable Issue (Mexico-United States Border Research Program, University of Texas, 1980...
...A series of essays devoted to the problems and methodology of carrying out demographic studies of "Spanish heritage popula- tions" in the United States...
...Highly recommended despite its price...
...A labor-market approach to the issues of undocumented immigration and the plight of foreign-born workers in the United States...
...We Eat the Mines is one of her best efforts, a study of capital accumulation and class consciousness, of natural and supernatural orders inside the mines...
...It's too bad that the Senate doesn't hold confirmation hearings on vice presidents...
...Absolutely essential overview of the labor movement in Latin America...
...business to conserve the perogatives of management...
...This is the third of a series which examines Britain's role in the region as well as European-Latin American relations, and all have been of very high quality...
...will place its security needs above all else in the 1980s...
...South End Press, Box 68, Astor Station, Boston, MA 02123...
...Girling, America and the Third World: Revolu- tion and Intervention (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980...
...III (JAI Press, 1980...
...18 cloth, 282 pgs...
...G. Thomas-Lycklama 6 Nijeholt, On the Road for Work: Migratory Workers on the East Coast of the United States (Martinus Nijhoff, 1980...
...Useful overview of Salvadorean history from the precolonial period to 1979 and a collection of the speeches of the assassinated Archbishop of El Salvador...
...It examines who owns and controls the land and resources of the state as well as providing information on federal and state-level government officials in New Mexico...
...MEXICAN AND CHICANO WORKERS IN THE U.S...
...Analysis of the role of small and medium-sized landowners (rancheros) during the Mexican revolution...
...Ken W. Post, Arise Ye Starvlings: The Jamaican Labour Rebellion of 1938 and its Aftermath (Martinus Nijhoff, 1978...
...One of the most useful aspects of this history is the new sense which it gives of the relations between urban and rural areas during the guerrilla war...
...At- torney General Herbert Brownell announced a "special program" to apprehend and deport "illegal aliens" on June 9, 1954...
...Latin America Bureau, PO Box 134, London NW1 4JY, England...
...Available in the United States through Lawrence Hill and Co., 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880...
...Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Walter Fogel and Fred Schmidt, The Chicano Worker (University of Texas Press, 1977...
...aid to foreign countries will be called upon to answer: Don't food aid programs get food to hungry people...
...Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881...
...Garcia examines the major factors behind the large influx of undocumented persons from Mexico to the United 46 States during the 1940s and early 1950s, and the massive deportation of Mexican workers in 1954...
...As in the Dorschner and Fabricio book, Franqui provides an account of the Cuban revolution based on interviews, letters and other documentation...
...20 cloth, 210 pgs...
...This volume provides a series of essays on women's oppression and resistance in a number of Latin American countries as well as general articles which argue that the Latin American women's movement cannot be a carbon copy of the British or U.S...
...The authors find that these workers are discriminated against, but argue that the only way to insure their prosperity is to "impose and enforce strong restrictions upon illegal entrants and com- muting workers . . ." Study neglects to examine the issue from the viewpoint of uneven development in the world...
...Franqui was director of "Radio Rebelde" and the 26th of July Movement's newspaper, Revoluci6n...
...labor history...
...IEPALA, Villalar 3-1, Madrid 1, Spain...
...As they note, however, this policy is similar to the Swiss "lemon policy": first squeeze the lemon and then throw away the fruit...
...The study also traces how the same process of uneven development continued to shape Jamaica's future...
...Metals and minerals remain a primary security need, and Mezger's discussion of copper provides ample background for understanding the role they have played historically in the world economy...
...As the current administration is quick to point out, the U.S...
...The Murder of...
...aid have a moderating influence on repressive foreign governments...
...New Mexico People and Energy, Who Runs New Mexico...
...The second part is a reference guide to trade unions in Latin America and the Caribbean, and presents them on a countryby-country basis along with some basic economic and social statistics...
...2.50 paper, 132 pgs...
...Monthly Review Press, 62 W. 14th Street, New York, NY 10011...
...Write for prices, paper, 150 and 213 pgs., respectively...
...Many of their interviews (which were recorded almost 2 decades after the events in question) provide an interesting insight into the final days "of fighting, but the author's anti-communism distorts the book's utility...
...In California alone, over 50,000 people were rounded up between June and Ju- ly...
...Nash has written numerous books and articles which proJanlFeb 1981 45 update * update * update . update vide the English-speaking reader with a first-hand understanding of the process of production in the Bolivian mines, the relationship between the product of the mines and international capitalism, and the culture of the mineworkers...
...1.50 paper, 76 pgs...
...Latin America Bureau, Paraguay: Power Game (Latin America Bureau, 1980...
...rans J. Schryer, The Rancheros of Pisaflores: The History of a Peasant Bourgeoisie in Twentieth-Century Mexico (University of Toronto Press, 1980...
...An examination of U.S...
...25 cloth, 268 pgs...
...University of Texas Press, PO Box 7819, Austin, TX 78712...
...Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO 80301...
...This book, however, covers the period from 1953-1959...
...9.95 paper, 186 pgs...
...Juan Ram6n Garcia, Operation Wetback: The Mass Deportation of Mexican Undocumented Workers in 1954 (Greenwood Press, 1980...
...Her analysis of how the copper multinationals have structured their industry (and the world) to protect their interests at the expense of the countries which produce the copper is extremely enlightening...
...5.95 paper, 254 pgs...
...A Case for Solidarity (Latin America Bureau, 1980...
...This study is organized around 20 questions which anyone working on the issue of U.S...
...involvement in the region, from counter-insurgency to options of limited war...
...Donald Freed, Death in Washington...
...Latin America Bureau, PO Box 134, London NW1 4JY, England...
...The answers to these questions require that even radicals take another look at aid programs and their future...
...Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016...
...16 cloth, 213 pgs...
...An exciting and stimulating analysis of the Jamaican labor rebellion of 1938...
...Latin American and Caribbean Women's Collective, Slaves of Slaves: The Challenge of Latin American Women (Zed Press, 1980...
...Consider: Vice President George Bush and Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger are just two Trilateralists in Reagan's administration...
Vol. 15 • January 1981 • No. 1
