Reviews
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz and Augusto Varas, University of North Carolina Press, 1992, 328 pp., $39.95 (cloth), $15.95...
...He divides the book into three chronological sections: the Conquest, the colonial period, and post-independence...
...The editors include both articles which emphasize the construction of new identity, and those which are concerned with practical questions of strategy and democratization...
...Army officer gave the FBI, and interfered in the trial testimony of another of the military advisors...
...Derrick Hodge Benedita Da Silva video by Eunice Gutman, 1990, color, 29 mins, $250 (sale), $50 (rental), Cinema Guild...
...Escobar and Alvarez have assembled some of the best writing on the subject...
...This is the tenth in a series of reports on the assassination prepared by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, which also served as legal counsel to the Jesuits on the case...
...This is a summary report on the murder of six Jesuit priests, their cook, and her young daughter in San Salvador in November, 1989...
...While the perspectives reflected in this collection are fairly mainstream-there is no real debate here-the book does a nice job of widening the usual context of discussion...
...is a compilation of the daily journal entries that the Dutch priest and theologian Henri Nouwen made while he lived among the people of Bolivia and Peru for six months in an attempt to carve out a vocation on behalf of the poor of Latin America...
...Readers versed in the contemporary history of these indigenous peoples are perhaps best advised to skip the last section which deals with more recent events...
...embassy concluded that there was evidence to support the claim that the murders were the result of a broad-based conspiracy, but his report was never made available to Salvadoran investigators...
...report underscores charges by Congressman Moakley that U.S...
...embassy officials warned Gen...
...Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy edited by Christopher Mitchell, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992, 314 pp., $45.00 (cloth), $14.95 (paper...
...iGracias...
...Even though the trial and conviction of the two officers was an important step towards the establishment of the rule of law in El Salvador, the case also places the need for judicial reform in sharp relief...
...The policy studies in particular probably reflect the thinking of the left wing of the Clinton Administration...
...Drawing heavily on ideas of the seminal liberation theologian Gustavo Guti6rrez, Nouwen writes that those involved in liberation struggle in Latin America need to value and embrace the qualities of softness and gentleness...
...The so-called "lost decade" of the 1980s in Latin America saw the rise of diverse forms of organized resistance, and an accompanying outpouring of academic analysis about the phenomena...
...Wright focuses on five indigenous groups: the Iroquois, the Cherokee, the Aztec, the Maya and the Inca...
...Others deal with specific areas of intra-hemispheric policy concern: debt and development, trade, democracy and human rights, the drug trade, the environment and migration...
...Seven others, including the confessed triggerman, were acquitted...
...A criminal investigator brought in by the U.S...
...Nouwen also poses a crucial question: what is an appropriate and effective level of solidarity for someone outside the native culture...
...The film includes music, testimonial, interviews with neighbors and supporters, scenes from the favela, and campaign footage of her run for Congress...
...policy...
...The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy edited by Arturo Escobar and Sonia E. Alvarez, Westview Press, 1992, 383 pp., $59.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper...
...The authors-not surprisingly-find that U.S...
...This is a useful collection of essays from a center-left perspective on the likely direction of U.S.-Latin American relations in the coming decade...
...Stolen Continents: The "New World" Through Indian Eyes Since 1492 by Ronald Wright, Houghton Mifflin, 1992, 424 pp., $22.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper...
...If the book has a central theme, it is that "strategic denial"-the refusal to allow European powers access to Latin American markets-from President Monroe to the present, has always been the cornerstone of U.S...
...There is also some frank discussion of racism in contemporary Brazil...
...U.S...
...The report provides detailed accounts of the crime and the ensuing investigation, presents eviContinued on page 48 Vol XXVI, No 5 May 1993 47 Vol XXVI, No 5 May 1993 47IN REVIEW dence of a carefully orchestrated cover-up by Salvadoran investigators, and implicates U.S...
...The movement of wisdom, Nouwen writes, is from south to north...
...A profile of Brazil's first black female member of Congress...
...These essays examine the connection between U.S...
...diplomats...
...He seems pulled between the arrogance of the traditional Catholic missionary agenda and his own respect and admiration for the people and their own cultural expressions...
...Wright boils down great masses of material, leaving a desiccated account heavy on rhetoric and light on telling detail...
...Nouwen adopts an attitude of humility and respectful deference...
...Two officers were convicted, including Col...
...administrations in determining that migration flow over the past three decades...
...iGracias...
...Wright takes on the ambitious task of retelling the history of the Americas since the fifteenth century from the perspective of the hemisphere's indigenous peoples...
...foreign policy...
...The collection has a balanced representation of authors from North America and Latin America...
...The earlier sections make for compelling reading as Wright weaves together excerpts from Indian texts, often eerily formal as the writers grapple with the foreign tongue, and evocative descriptions of the Indians' world view and the destruction wrought by the Spaniards...
...In an interesting essay on Cuban immigration, for example, Jorge Dominguez discusses the interplay between Cuban emigration policy and the role of U.S...
...In spite of this unprecedented (for El Salvador) conviction of a high-ranking officer in a human-rights case, the report alleges that a large number of suspects were not brought to trial, including Air Force General Juan Raphael Bustillo, who ordered the murders after he was flown to El Salvador from the United States in a private plane co-piloted by former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez...
...A Chronicle of Death Foretold: The Jesuit Murders in El Salvador by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, N.Y...
...Mauricio Guti6rrez Castro, president of the court, for unprofessional conduct...
...embassy protected him against an indictment...
...Benavides in December, 1989 in the company of three U.S...
...Rend Emilio Ponce and other members of the military high command ordered the actions taken by members of the Atlacatl Battalion...
...A Latin American Journal by Henri Nouwen, Orbis Books, Maryknoll Press, 1993, 188 pp., $10.95 (paper...
...Of particular note is an article joint-authored by four scholars which tracks the evolving concerns of the women's movement as manifested in the region's biannual feminist Encuentros...
...Here, he cobbles together a narrative history from post-Columbian native documents recently unearthed by scholars...
...It also details the active role of the Cristiani government in the cover-up...
...Rivas was himself implicated in the cover-up, the U.S...
...immigration policy is typically an extension of U.S...
...foreign policy and immigration to the United States from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean...
...Guillermo Benavides of the elite U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion, the corps found to have committed the murders...
...Manuel Antonio Rivas Mejia, of the U.S.-created and financed Special Investigative Unit (SIU) of the Salvadoran military, interviewed Col...
...Nine suspects were eventually charged in the case and stood trial in September, 1991...
...As a white European protected in many ways from the disease and deprivation which is a fact of life for the poor of Peru and Bolivia, Nouwen asks himself if he can ever enter into full community with them...
...The U.N...
...officials never provided investigators with important testimony that a U.S...
...The diversity of forms of collective action in the hemisphere is reflected in the case studies, among them the gay, urban, ethnic and ecological movements...
...Nouwen's occasional Christocentrism, one of the few weaknesses in the volume, is balanced by his numerous journal entries affirming the value of indigenous religiosity...
...Ponce that he was a suspect, thereby giving him time to pressure a key witness to change his story...
...The Lawyers Committee report also provides evidence possibly linking Vice President Francisco Merino to the murders...
...In vindication of these findings, the United Nations' Truth Commission (investigating humanrights violations in El Salvador) found "substantial proof" that Defense Minister Gen...
...Some essays, like the insightful surveys of the Latin American Right (by Rosario Espinal) and Left (by Marcelo Cavarozzi), offer background analysis of changes in the continent that might have a significant impact on the formulation of U.S...
...During Benavides' subsequent trial, the court was never provided with a transcript of this interview...
...10001, February 1993, 367 pp., $15.00 (paper...
...When Lt...
...The United States and Latin America in the 1990s edited by Jonathan Hartlyn, Lars Schoultz and Augusto Varas, University of North Carolina Press, 1992, 328 pp., $39.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paper...
...In Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in Peru and Time Among the Maya, Wright wrote scintillating contemporary travelogue...
...policy in the region...
...The report also calls for the immediate replacement of the members of the Supreme Court, and cites Dr...
...officials both at the embassy and in Washington in the failure to bring the perpetrators to justice...
...Again and again he writes that he has much more to learn from the people of Peru and Bolivia than they from him...
...From this perspective, the end of the Cold War throws traditional policy into a state of crisis, creating new dilemmas and opportunities for policymakers...
...Nouwen is refreshingly different from historical Christian missionaries in his insistence that the greatest service he can perform is not to impose his agenda onto the communities of the oppressed, but to receive the gifts that the people of Latin America have to give to him and to the rest of the world...
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