In Brief
A Conversation with the Dictator's Daughter SANTIAGO-Many years ago, in the early 1980s, Lucia Pinochet telephoned me to invite me to her office for coffee. I understood that she wanted to...
...Grasso said the meeting with Reyes basically dealt with economic issues, and that the exchange of opinions was very interesting...
...Soon, tens of thousands of Chileans filled the military's concentration camps...
...The bulk of U.S...
...military bombing errors are not just taking place far across the Atlantic in Yugoslavia...
...Air Force signed short-term agreements with Ecuador and the Netherlands for the use of three airfields in Latin America for antidrug flights...
...For example, in a 1997 article in the Journal of Democracy, he hailed Mexico's "hard-won stabilization gains," which encouraged multinational corporate investment, but he ignored its failure to implement NAFrA's labor and environmental side agreements or to initiate efforts to alter the country's alarming disparities in wealth...
...SOA graduates have been widely implicated in human rights abuses in Latin America...
...Four years ago, the EZLN failed to consolidate a broad-based political front, the Zapatista National Liberation Front (FZLN), at the national level...
...In the name of peace and democracy, the U.S...
...Judge Rafael Huerta, who issued the warrants, said the book is part of an international conspiracy aimed at discrediting the Chilean judicial system...
...More than 70 prisoners were killed in different cities in northern Chile in this military operation-known as the "caravan of death"-which was headed by General S6rgio Arellano and ordered by General Pinochet himself...
...The book portrays Servando Jordan as an avid drinker who has failed his responsibilities as a Supreme Court judge...
...He has been a consultant to a variety of organizations, from the National Council of La Raza, for which he is the international affairs advisor, to Clinton's 1992 transition team, to multinational firms such as Marriott and Salomon Brothers...
...Last November, more than 7,000 gathered at the School...
...The Navy acquired three-quarters of the island, which is situated between the main island of Puerto Rico and the U.S...
...Lucia Pinochet regrets the "excesses" and maintains that there were only a few such cases...
...In these situations there are always excesses which we must regret...
...State Department-to visit Wall Street...
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...Such were the occupational hazards of an intelligence agent, the hazards of the dirty war...
...They emptied dozens of bullets into each of the bodies and then stabbed them for good measure...
...As soon as the formal greeting had passed, she cut to the chase...
...lease, which did not require payment of rent, to three years...
...As director of Georgetown's Center for Latin American Studies, he has shielded the Center's Cuba Project from attacks by conservative alumni critical of its moderate positions...
...Combatants of what...
...Virgin Islands, in 1941 and has been using it as a firing range ever since...
...This is why the body of Jorge Pefia Hen was delayed 25 years in arriving at its own funeral...
...Ortiz and Orellana were released on bail after two days in jail...
...From where did the dictator's daughter pull that version of the story...
...With a faltering peso and high unemployment rates (a record 19%), and the banking sector in its worst crisis since 1982, fears of IMF-style restructuring are growing...
...Nor does Fedora Pefia need to explain herself when she sheds a few tears during the concerts that pay homage to the great maestro who was her father...
...Fifty-three are pending July court appearances on charges of "throwing" and "pouring a substance (water-soluble paint) on Pentagon property," though it is believed that all charges will be dropped...
...The success of the referendum was due to the work of over 2,000 nonhierarchical "brigades" made up of nearly 30,000 individuals who promoted and organized the event, as well as nearly 5,000 representatives of grassroots Zapatista networks who traveled throughout Mexico to promote participation in the referendum...
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...The bodies were so torn to pieces that the colonels decided to hide them...
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...Southern Command operated 2,000 flights a year from Howard, the centerpiece of a military "counter-drug center" that had been under negotiation between Panama and Washington until last September...
...But evidence of bad faith emerged when Interior Minister Di6doro Carrasco suggested that the strike now represents a threat to Mexico's public security...
...I have no need to tell myself lies when I remember my father's honest expression...
...thousands more are expected to attend the protest scheduled this fall...
...Molly Todd is a research assistant at the National Security Archive...
...What I am unclear about is how she explains the disappearance of the bodies...
...In fact, it is so clear what happened that right-wing members of Congress approved financial compensation for the victims' families...
...They are happening right here at home in Puerto Rico...
...In 1989, only a dozen or so activists took part in protests against the SOA, which moved from Panama to Fort Benning, Georgia in 1984...
...Army institute which trains primarily Latin American soldiers...
...On May 19, one student was shot to death by anti-riot police in Arica, in northern Chile...
...What could I say to her...
...When spokespersons for the group were denied a previously solicited meeting with Defense Secretary William Cohen and other top U.S...
...Pefia Hen was the director of the School of Music at the University of Chile and the founder of the Children's Symphony Orchestra...
...By 1996, hundreds were gathering at the semi-annual protests at Fort Benning and in Washington, D.C...
...A member of the Socialist Party, he was 45 and had a daughter named Fedora...
...In mid-June, Barnis agreed to hold a public dialogue with the CGH at the legislative palace...
...135 photos, paperback $USD 30.95 includes $USD 6.00 for shipping by air mail War of Extermination...
...The national response to the EZLN-sponsored March 21 referendum was impressive...
...His body began to emerge-bone by bone-from a communal grave this past October, just as General Pinochet was being informed of his arrest in the London clinic...
...The CEH findings spurred President Clinton's historic admission that U.S...
...He chaired the inter-agency working groups on Mexico and NAFTA implementation...
...Local media said Grasso had asked to meet a representative of the FARC's high command to discuss foreign investment and the future role of U.S...
...If they died in combat, why throw the bodies into the ocean or bury them clandestinely...
...It has two major strengths...
...F-18 fighter planes dropped two 500-pound bombs on the Puerto Rican island town of Vieques during practice runs for combat in the Balkans...
...The meeting took place inside the rebelcontrolled peace zone in an area near the village of La Machacha, in southern Caquetd department...
...At the La Realidad meeting, the Zapatista sympathizers proposed that the brigades organized for the referendum remain active in order to serve as a bridge between the EZLN and civil society...
...Each month my mother receives a check from the state...
...call 800-247-6651 or write to: Charles P. Goff, Cemanahuac Educational Community Apartado 5-21 Cuernavaca, Morelos MEXICO Tel: (52-73) 18-6407 Fax: (52-73) 12-5418 Internet:74052.2570@compuserve.com Homepage: http://www.cemanahuac.com Military Bases Close in Panama, New Bases Open in Ecuador and Dutch Antilles WASHINGTON, D.C.-This past April, the U.S...
...Vieques has been subjected to relentless bombardment from both sea and air...
...With the coup, overnight that "trust" became a passport to torture and death, as did the idea of popular sovereignty that united so Vol )O(XIJI, No 1 JULY/AUGUST 1999 1 Vol XXXIII, No 1 JULY/AUGUST 1999 1IN BRIEF many senators, deputies, town councilors and union leaders...
...Brawls and riots involving U.S...
...Millions of people throughout Mexico were able to hear firsthand accounts from Zapatista supporters about living under constant harassment from the Mexican army and PRI-supported paramilitaries...
...On April 21, a group of local fishermen and supporters from both Vieques and the main island of Puerto Rico entered the restricted Navy area and set up a permanent vigil demanding demilitarization of the island...
...The staterun news agency ANCOL quoted Grasso as having stressed the importance of negotiations between the government and the FARC...
...And on May 12, the Argentine Congress restored Menem's budget cuts...
...The Senator was one of a dozen people arrested for several months in 1971 after camping out in a target practice area then used by the U.S...
...Matus was able to escape arrest by fleeing to Argentina...
...The NSC is the key agency responsible for shaping the Clinton Administration's decision about how much information to release to the Spanish court attempting to try former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet...
...Organizers hope that this new effort, with its focus on building concrete linkages with other actors in civil society, will be an important step in moving toward such a pluralistic political front in the future...
...Since the access agreement with Ecuador expires in September, Washington may still decide to take an aggressive approach with Moscoso, who takes office on September 1. However, Panama's Constitution requires any international agreement for installations on the banks of the canal to be ratified by a popular referendum no less than 90 days after such an agreement is signed...
...She believes that it was nothing more than an "excess," that someone went overboard and killed an innocent man...
...In northern Mexico, where the EZLN has had little presence, the mere presence of Zapatistas organizers became an important political event...
...She forgets that her father was made Commander-in-Chief of the Army by President Salvador Allende, who trusted him and others like him who were given responsibilities in his government...
...Grasso's visit was reportedly organized by the Colombian government, in particular by Colombian Ambassador to the United States Luis Alberto Moreno, said to be a close personal friend of Grasso...
...The march, organized by the Council of All the Lands, began on May 27 in Temuco...
...congressional representative William Delahunt (D-MA) also traveled to Colombia and met with FARC spokesperson Reyes...
...Formal talks are set to begin July 7 with a 12-point agenda worked out in prior discussions...
...At an improvised press conference in San Vicente del Caguin, at which Restrepo acted as translator, Grasso said he had come to Colombia to bring a message of cooperation from U.S...
...The U.S...
...At least 61 people were arrested in this act of civil disobedience...
...She needs to believe that he is a "political prisoner" because she cannot conceive of him as a criminal...
...August's book is invaluable for anyone interested in political repre- sentation in general, and the Cuban political process, in particular...
...Lucia Pinochet needs to invent a war for herself because otherwise she could never look her father in the eye...
...It prescribes up to five years of prison for those found guilty...
...Weekly News Update on the Americas Georgetown Professor to Head Key Post in Clinton Administration WASHINGTON, D.C.-Arturo Valenzuela, a professor of government at Georgetown University, took over as Senior Adviser for InterAmerican Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC) on June 1. He replaces James Dobbins, a career Foreign Service Officer who had become the Secretary of State's special envoy in charge of Kosovo...
...I understand that, and I pity her...
...The meeting, the "Second Meeting Between the EZLN and Civil Society," took place in the village of La Realidad, a Zapatista stronghold and symbol of indigenous resistance...
...The new resistance movements in Latin America are a direct response to free-market reforms that hack away at social services and advocate privatization of national industries...
...washington is also negouaung with Costa Rica for use of a group of airfields there...
...policy toward Latin America, he is completing a book about Soviet-Cuban relations in the 1960s...
...Matus also indicts the judiciary system for its incapacity to impart justice in cases of human rights violations committed during the military dictatorship...
...Also of concern to the government is the risk rating that Moodys is about to assign Colombia, which would put Colombia among those countries with "negative perspectives" for growth...
...Several hundred people marched the same day in Cali to protest the kidnappings...
...The Pentagon action was part of a four-day rendezvous during which some 4,000 people gathered in the nation's capital, celebrating Ihe tenthi anniversary o mthe campaign to close the School of the Americas...
...The protests in Arica were part of the demonstrations uniting some 40,000 students from several statefunded universities across the country demanding increased funding and scholarships...
...On June 21, Attorney General Alfonso G6mez M6ndez ordered the arrest of top ELN commander NicolAs Rodriguez and his secondand third-in-command, Erlington Chamorro and Pablo Beltrdn, on charges of murder, kidnapping and extortion...
...The Jungle Combat Training Center, based at Fort Sherman on Panama's Caribbean coast, formally closed on April 1. -John Lindsay-Poland Anti-SOA Campaign Enters Tenth Year WASHINGTON, D.C.-Capital police officers were on "special occasion" duty on Monday, May 3 as approximately 1,500 protesters marched on the Pentagon demanding the closure of the School of the Americas, a U.S...
...The rest, she assures us, were "combatants...
...Secondly, an intimate portrait of the electoral process of 1997-98...
...There we were, face to face-the daughter of the dictator and the daughter of a slain union leader...
...I really regret the crime against your father, Patricia...
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...financial circles, who view with great interest the peace process being promoted by President Andr6s Pastrana...
...Ecuadorean students launched protests against urban bus fare increases in late May, and Argentine students and teachers held massive demonstrations to protest President Carlos Menem's planned $280 million cut in the 1999 education budget...
...But their protest worked: In 1975 the Navy finally left Culebra...
...Another indicator of the movement's growth is the yearly reappearance in Congress of bills to close the SOA or to cut its funding...
...Army troops based in Panama are already set to move in July and August to Puerto Rico, which will also host the Special Operations Command South, a command of 300 troops who train Latin American militaries...
...The arrests came after Supreme Court Justice Servando Jordan filed a lawsuit for defamation...
...The book portrays Servando Jordan as an avid drinker who has failed his responsibilities as a Supreme Court judge...
...Marines are not uncommon...
...In 1955, 13-year-old Chuito Legrand was killed by an unexploded ordinance...
...In Chile and Argentina, at least, there are some signs that the protests are bearing fruit...
...I understood that she wanted to converse in private with the political editor of Chile's principal opposition weekly, Hoy...
...On April 20, police killed one student, 21 others were wounded and 77 were arrested during protests...
...S. 873 was introduced by Sen...
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...For more than 25 years, for example, the body of the great musician Jorge Pefia Hen was disappeared...
...Grasso was accompanied by Finance Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo and presidential commissioner for peace Victor Ricardo...
...What explanation could possibly be given to their families...
...Ortiz and Orellana were released on bail after two days in jail...
...The arrests came after Supreme Court Justice Servando Jordan filed a lawsuit for defamation...
...It is time for Lucia, during the long flights between London and Santiago, to read the two volumes of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which included the participation of people from the right who she should find credible...
...Students have been engaged in similar struggles in Argentina and Ecuador...
...support for military forces or intelligence units which engaged in violent and widespread repression was wrong...
...The airfields, called Forward Operating Locations, will host F-16 fighter jets, refueling aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft, which will fly missions over Colombia, Ecuador and Peru...
...The report released this past March by Guatemala's truth commission, formally known as the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), cites U.S...
...While he has avoided articulating a stance on U.S...
...Carmelo Ruiz is a Puerto Rican journalist and a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont...
...I said nothing, but I believed her...
...I truly hope that they can do this...
...He also led one of the U.S...
...Military personnel have brought along with them drug addiction, prostitution and street violence, which were virtually unheard of on the island in the pre-Navy years...
...According to the National Press Association, that they were arrested at all proves "once more, the extraordinary fragility of freedom of speech" in Chile...
...The book, written by journalist Alejandra Matus, was released on April 14 but was withdrawn from circulation the following day when police arrived at Planeta's offices with a court order to confiscate all copies of the book...
...The Black Book is the culmination of a six-year investigation by Matus in which she describes the corruption, nepotism, abuse of power and influence-trafficking of the Chilean judicial system...
...Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori refused to negotiate an access agreement for the flights...
...Rector Barn6s' June 2 offer to make payment of tuition "voluntary" was seen as a positive sign by some, but the students decided to continue the strike because the proposal failed to address other student demands...
...Elsewhere in the region, studentled protests have been met with heavy government repression...
...A vote on the House bill is expected later this summer or fall...
...Moscoso said that the military bases must leave Panama, but noted that she would be willing to discuss U.S...
...Currently, H.R...
...He also has been on the board of Americas Watch and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI...
...John Lindsay-Poland coordinates the Latin America program of the Fellowship of Reconciliation...
...mediation efforts in Haiti between the government and opposition parties...
...Navy in another Puerto Rican island town, Culebra, which lies to the north of Vieques...
...First, it describes the development of Cuban democracy, beginning in the 19th century...
...In late June, a valiant Chilean judge served a warrant for the arrest of Arellano and four other high-ranking military officials for their involvement in these crimes...
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...According to the National Press Association, that they were arrested at all proves "once more, the extraordinary fragility of freedom of speech" in Chile...
...The EZLN delegates visited 1,300 municipalities, including all the large and medium-size cities in Mexico, and succeeded in carrying out a dialogue with representatives of the entire political and social spectrum...
...The protesters were joined by Puerto Rico Senator Rub6n Berrios, president of the Puerto Rico Independence Party...
...After the violence in Arica, President Eduardo Frei pledged greater resources for Chilean universities in the coming year...
...In the mid1970s, a cruise missile fell next to a Vieques school, and in October 1993, four 500-pound bombs were dropped just a mile away from the Isabel Segunda village, missing their intended target by ten miles...
...Writing about the case in the March 1999 issue of Current History, Valenzuela argued that full recognition of Pinochet's atrocities in Chile was necessary if "true reconciliation" is to be achieved in that country...
...The demonstrators, many wearing white "death" masks and carrying crosses to represent those killed in SOA-linked atrocities, brought with them evidence against the School, including live testimony from victims and their families and CIA training manuals advocating torture and execution...
...The people of Vieques have had enough...
...Among the current priorities are the struggle against the privatization of electricity and the defense of free education...
...And still today I believe her: She regrets the crime against my father...
...Publishers Arrested for Book Critical of Judicial System SANTIAGO-Press-freedom activists were outraged at the June 16 arrest of Bartolo Ortiz and Carlos Orellana, general manager and editor of the Planeta publishing company, on charges of violating the State Security Law for the publishing of The Black Book of the Chilean Justice System...
...Moakley in February, has at least 125 cosponsors...
...businesses in Colombia...
...Nearly three million voters took part, and the great majority expressed their support for formal recognition of the right of indigenous communities to relative autonomy in the political and social spheres...
...Judge Rafael Huerta, who issued the warrants, said the book is part of an international conspiracy aimed at discrediting the Chilean judicial system...
...The report decisively concluded that the victims fell at the hands of agents of the state and were cruelly assassinated without the right to defense...
...Nothing...
...After being detained by the military, Pefia Hen was never tried by a military court during the month he was in prison: He and several other prisoners were killed by soldiers in the patio of the regiment...
...The Black Book is the culmination of a six-year investigation by Matus in which she describes the corruption, nepotism, abuse of power and influence-trafficking of the Chilean judicial system...
...To reject her invitation would have been imprudent: She was the daughter of the dictator...
...She won the Chilean National Journalism Prize in 1997, and is author of eight books, including Interferencia Secreta (Editorial Sudamericana, 1998), Los Zarpazos del Puma (Ediciones ChileAmerica, 1997), and Operaci6n Siglo XX (Ornitorrinco, 1990...
...counterinsurgency training provided at the SOA as having "a significant bearing on human rights violations" during that country's 36-year civil war...
...a 0% growth rate is projected for this year...
...Philip Brenner SOURCES Patricia Verdugo is a Chilean writer based in Santiago...
...Valenzuela's affiliations reflect a centrist to liberal orientation...
...Meanwhile, the Colombian government appears to be cracking down on the country's secondlargest leftist rebel force, the National Liberation Army (ELN...
...It prescribes up to five years of prison for those found guilty...
...This article, which appeared in Diario 16 on May 29, 1999, is reprinted with the author's permission...
...Antonietta Rend6n and Carlos Salas Students Mobilize Across Latin America MEXICO CITY-Since last April, university students throughout Latin America have been engaged in massive mobilizations against budget cuts and veiled privatization schemes...
...She lived in her own courtly world, full of bows and curtsies and bodyguards, with military chaplains who raised her father up as the blessed chalice to the altar of the fatherland...
...Drug Czar Barry McCaffery, who was the Pentagon's chief commander for the region until 1996, agreed that the Administration had not been "aggressive enough" in military base talks with Panama...
...In Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina and Ecuador, students have ignited waves of protest, reflecting the grave crisis of public universities in the region and the failings of neoliberal proposals for reform...
...This is not the first accident caused by U.S...
...His main responsibility initially centered on global issues as they affected the Americas, such as democracy, human rights and the environment...
...practice" bombing...
...The majority of them were taken with weapons in hand, fighting...
...The ELN is still holding some 63 hostages from three dramatic high-profile kidnapping operations over the past few months...
...Some 30,000 people, including kidnap victims previously freed by the ELN and relatives of others still being held, marched on June 20 in the city of Bucaramanga to demand and end to kidnappings and the release of all people abducted by armed groups...
...The airfields-to be built in Aruba, Curacao and Manta, Ecuador-replace Howard Air Base in Panama, where operations ended on May 4 as part of implementing the Torrijos-Carter Canal Treaties...
...The idea is to broaden the base of support for the EZLN and to simultaneously create a network of resistance to neoliberal economic policies...
...Press reports suggest that the Pastrana Administration's interest is to show the world-and particularly business executives--that the peace process is moving along...
...The sounds of heavy artillery, missiles and low-flying warplanes are often heard in residential areas...
...On the evening of April 19, 35year-old David Sanes Rodriguez was killed and four others wounded after U.S...
...In Mexico City, students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the largest public university in Latin America with over 267,000 students, began a strike on April 20 to protest a proposed tuition increase...
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...Carlos Salas teaches economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM...
...The repressive law, enacted in 1958 under the authoritarian rule of Carlos Ibifiez del Campo, has been used on 25 different occasions against journalists and politicians in the nine years since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship to repress criticism against government employees, military or police personnel, and church leaders...
...Graduates of the School of the Americas (SOA) have been responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America...
...This may help explain her assertion in a recent interview with a Spanish newspaper that General Pinochet is "a political prisoner" in England and a victim of the "political vengeance" of the international left...
...For example, as extradition proceedings continue in Great Britain against General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, ten of the 30 other high-ranking Chilean officials charged in the case have been identified as graduates of the School of the Americas...
...The students claim that Rector Francisco Barn6s de Castro has a hidden privatization agenda for the university that is part of a larger government privatization scheme involving electric utilities and health care...
...Their "corpses" were then outlined with red paint to symbolize blood...
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...officials, several hundred individuals broke from the ranks of protesters and fell to the sidewalk...
...When someone put the list of 3,200 victims in front of her, she said, "Of course these people were killed...
...Molly Todd Publishers Arrested for Book Critical of Judicial System SANTIAGO-Press-freedom activists were outraged at the June 16 arrest of Bartolo Ortiz and Carlos Orellana, general manager and editor of the Planeta publishing company, on charges of violating the State Security Law for the publishing of The Black Book of the Chilean Justice System...
...He is the co-author of two books about Chile, and the son of a Chilean 6migr6...
...Since the Canal Treaties require transfer of the bases to Panama by December 31, a deal by that time is highly improbable...
...day prior to his departure on June 27, was also accompanied by NYSE vice president Alain Murban and adviser James Esposito...
...Carmelo Ruiz Wall Street Chief Meets With Colombian Rebels LA MACHACHA-Richard Grasso, president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), flew into southern Colombia on June 26 where he met for an hour and a half with spokesperson Raul Reyes of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's largest leftist rebel group...
...ANCOL reported that Grasso extended a personal invitation to leaders of the FARC-which is considered a "terrorist" organization by the U.S...
...The victims worked as security guards in an observation tower used to monitor military exercises on the island...
...The dictator's daughter cannot accept that there were secret prisons and torture chambers...
...Grasso, whose presence in Colombia was kept secret until the Continued on page 49 SANTIAGO-Mapuche Indians raise their chuecas, an instrument used to play palfn, an ancestral sport similar to field hockey as they face police during a demonstra- tion on June 21...
...My world was one of dark dissidence, of nighttime phone calls that threatened death, of the search for prisoners who never reappeared, and of far too many funerals...
...Durbin with 12 cosponsors on April 22...
...They also heard the Zapatistas' demands and the arguments behind them, effectively breaking the informational curtain which the government and Mexican television sought to draw around them...
...Weekly News Update on the Americas Zapatista Referendum: Building Bridges With Civil Society LA REALIDAD, CHIAPAS--On May 7-10, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) held a meeting of the activists who had helped organize the Referendum for the Recognition of Indian Communities and an End to the The author is the first non-Cuban who has directly attended all the steps of the contemporary Cuban electoral process in order to write a book "The book makes an important contribution to an issue that is not at all understood...
...In recent years Colombia's growth rate has been around 3% of the annual gross domestic product (GDP...
...In early June, U.S...
...Soft-spoken and generally measured in his pronouncements, Valenzuela has been an advocate of Clinton's globalization policies for Latin America...
...military is wreaking havoc, not just in the Balkans, but also on Vieques...
...She did so because she could...
...Some 300 Mapuche Indians arrived in Santiago, Chile on June 20 after marching more than 400 miles to demand that the government recognize their land rights and their constitutional status as an ethnic group...
...Charles McKelvey, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Development Studies, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina "There is no other comparable source on the Cuban political process...
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...She needs to imagine that her heroic agents engaged in shootouts with villainous guerrillas...
...But bombs and missiles are not the only danger...
...I remained silent, looking at her, and she repeated, "I really regret it...
...Philip Brenner is a professor of international relations at American University in Washington, D.C...
...I invite members of the FARC to visit the New York Stock Exchange so that they can get to know the market personally," Grasso was quoted as saying...
...The Republican outcry came within days of the May 2 electoral victory of opposition presidential candidate Mireya Moscoso...
...The repressive law, enacted in 1958 under the authoritarian rule of Carlos Ibifiez del Campo, has been used on 25 different occasions against journalists and politicians in the nine years since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship to repress criticism against government employees, military or police personnel, and church leaders...
...The conversation between Grasso and Reyes focused on Colombia's fledgling peace talks, specifically addressing the role of multinational corporations in the Colombian economy...
...Cuba policy, he will oversee the way in which the Clinton Administration puts into place new regulations adopted last May...
...The strike in Mexico, however, shows no sign of coming to a quick end...
...Republicans in the House of Representatives harshly criticized the Clinton Administration for the failed negotiations with Panama and the resulting departure from Howard, citing the $137 million that rehabilitating the airfields will cost for an uncertain period of use...
...With weapons in hand, fighting...
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...Antonietta Rend6n is a journalist based in Mexico City...
...While widespread violence has not occurred, many student leaders have been harassed, assaulted and kidnapped by anonymous assailants...
...proposals...
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...He was so loved in his region, La Sirena, that only he and the poet Gabriela Mistral, winner of the Nobel Prize, are now buried in public parks, although it took a quarter of a century before Pefia Hen received a headstone with his name on it...
...In early April, for example, Nicaraguan students began demonstrations demanding that 6% of the national budget be allocated to the universities...
...Weekly News Update on the Americas Georgetown Professor to Head Key Post in Clinton Administration WASHINGTON, D.C.-Arturo Valenzuela, a professor of government at Georgetown University, took over as Senior Adviser for InterAmerican Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC) on June 1. He replaces James Dobbins, a career Foreign Service Officer who had become the Secretary of State's special envoy in charge of Kosovo...
...Patricia Verdugo U.S...
...The recurrent citing of SOA graduates in such cases of human rights violations has led to greater visibility of the controversial issues surrounding the School and spurred the growth of the anti-SOA movement over the past decade...
...The book, written by journalist Alejandra Matus, was released on April 14 but was withdrawn from circulation the following day when police arrived at Planeta's offices with a court order to confiscate all copies of the book...
...While President Clinton announced that documents concerning Chile's involvement in international terrorism would be declassified, the CIA has waged a battle behind the scenes to limit disclosure...
...He said he explained to Reyes how some 200 million North Americans participate in one way or another in the stock market, and how these markets could prove useful to businesses in places like Colombia...
...On May 12, 100,000 people marched in support of the strike...
...732, introduced by Rep...
...Practice" Bombing Kills Puerto Rican Man SAN JUAN-Deadly U.S...
...But he quickly became responsible for Mexico, and his tenure was dominated by the 1994 Mexican election and the 1995 peso crisis...
...Matus was able to escape arrest by fleeing to Argentina...
...Matus also indicts the judiciary system for its incapacity to impart justice in cases of human rights violations committed during the military dictatorship...
...The war is hitting closer to home than many people think...
...The students' General Strike Council (CGH) maintains that Mexicans must be guaranteed the right to free higher education, as laid out in the Mexican Constitution and provided for years by UNAM...
...Valenzuela was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs from 1993 to 1996...
...I continued to sit there without saying a word while she ordered coffee and gave instructions to her secretary...
...Really...
...They also supported the Zapatista demand that the framework for implementing these rights should be the San Andr6s Accords, signed by the Mexican government and the EZLN after peace talks held in San Andr6s, Chiapas in 1995 and 1996...
...Those talks broke down after Panama limited the U.S...
Vol. 33 • July 1999 • No. 1
