In Review
Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair, a film produced by Barbara Trent, Gary Meyer and David Kasper. The Empowerment Project (1653 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA), 1988, 75 mins., $39.95 for...
...Ellner discusses these changing positions from a comparative perspective, citing the experience of other Left parties in other historical and national contexts...
...policy, but who have developed their own Biblically-derived strategies to improve their lives...
...Venezuela's Movimiento al Socialismo: From Guerrilla Defeat to Innovative Politics by Steve Ellner...
...A response from the Chilean Ambassador appears at the back, in which he accuses the authors of "serious errors of fact" and "capricious and biased interpretations...
...Naming the Idols: Biblical Alternatives for U.S...
...is, for Ellner, "its most attractive characteristic, and perhaps its outstanding feature...
...His retelling of the tortures experienced under Somoza, of the repression of the young, and of individual poor Nicaraguans choosing to fight the dictatorship, provide the most memorable poems...
...Let there be many Nicaraguas in the world...
...A comprehensive study of Venezuela's third largest party and a unique leftist institution in Latin America...
...Some of these poems are thoughts written down when Cardenal attended public functions as Minister of Culture, as in "Cabinet Meeting," "Mass Rally in St...
...For Cardenal there is no distinction between the personal and political...
...The Empowerment Project has created an excellent teaching and organizing tool...
...Flights of Victory by Ernesto Cardenal...
...Despite similarities, Ellner argues that the MAS' ideology and philosophical outlook is fundamentally different...
...Curbstone Press, 1988, 123 pp., $9.95 (paper...
...First of a series of reports on the Chilean electoral process...
...The MAS (Movement Toward Socialism) is often grouped with others who broke with the old Left to pursue reformist Eurocommunism...
...Christians can be influenced by the experience of Latin Americans who not only suffer at the hands of U.S...
...Among the many undemocratic features the authors identify the lack of options for voters, late selection of the date of the plebiscite and brevity of the campaign period...
...The verse of Nicaragua's former Minister of Culture often seems like "story-poetry," relating events, impressions and emotions that are deeply rooted in material history...
...George" and "Founding of the Latin American Human Rights Association...
...Over the first seven years of the revolution, assistance from these countries averaged $600 million per year but in late 1986, due to U.S...
...Aid That Counts: The Western Contribution to Development and Survival in Nicaragua by the Transnational Institute and the Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Econ6micas y Sociais, 1988, 157 pp., $5.95 (paper...
...The Empowerment Project (1653 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA), 1988, 75 mins., $39.95 for individuals/$99.95 for institutions...
...pressure and their own budgetary constraints, several Western European governments began to sharply reduce their contributions...
...Written before the plebiscite, it nevertheless provides useful and comprehensive data regarding impediments to voter registration, restrictions on political parties, access to the media, appointment of polling officials and voting observers, and the structure of the plebiscite itself...
...Using Biblical references and analogies, Shaull argues that U.S...
...Report on the Chilean Electoral Process by International Human Rights Law Group, 1987, 77 pp., $5 (paper...
...Ellner traces the MAS' factional struggles and political swings from its early days when it rejected alliances with Left parties not explicitly socialist to its later refusal to ally with socialist parties it considered undemocratic, such as the Communist Party...
...Foreign Policy by Richard Shaull...
...The cadres' "readiness to put forward personal viewpoints...
...While the aid enabled Nicaragua to build social welfare programs and restore production and infrastructure, it also increased Nicaragua's foreign debt to over $5 billion by 1986...
...Especially interesting for Ellner is MAS' "participative zeal" which, while sometimes a hindrance, sets it apart from other Left parties that prize obedience to the leadership...
...Shaull is optimistic that U.S...
...A prominent liberation theologian and former Presbyterian missionary, Richard Shaull argues that radical structural changes in the Third World are consistent with Biblical teaching and are in the interests of the United States as well...
...This video examines those issues-allegations of CIA drug trafficking, the history of the "secret team" since the 1960s, the possibility that the Reagan campaign cut a deal with the Ayatollah in 1980-using vivid scenes from the Congressional hearings, historical footage and interviews with analysts and participants...
...Coverup" includes the participation of celebrities, among them musicians Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Rub6n Blades and narration by actress Elizabeth Montgomery...
...Meyer Stone Books, 1988, 155 pp., $9.95 (paper...
...Congress' refusal to look at more than the particular arms deals with Iran after 1983 effectively turned the hearings into a coverup of broader illegalities in covert foreign policy...
...A common thread running through the poems is Cardenal's fierce love and pride for his country's struggle, as in "Ecumenical Mass in Dusseldorf," wherein he prays "Lord, let all that is dreamed in Nicaragua be realized...
...A helpful overview of financial assistance to Nicaragua since 1979...
...Duke University Press, 1988, 262 pp., $43.50 (paper...
...foreign policy has deteriorated into an idolatrous defense of narrow interests that serve only the powerful...
...Focusing primarily on Western Europe and Canada, the book analyzes how the nature of contributions from these countries have changed as Nicaragua's priorities have shifted "from an initial emphasis on reconstruction after the revolution, to long-term development investment, and now a 'survival economy' in the face of mounting economic and military pressure...
Vol. 22 • August 1988 • No. 5
