The Urgent Need for A Social Contract
1997 Junio Nicaragua
It is hard to be constructive in evaluating the first 100 days of the new government; offering proposals seems an impossible task. We'll make the effort...

Central America in 20 Years: A Somalia-Taiwan Duality?
1996 Febrero Centroamérica
Central America has been wrenched by tremendous change in the last two decades. By holding out the hope for social change, the region was more than...

One Year into ESAF: What Must Still Be Adjusted?
1995 Septiembre Nicaragua
As much as we have criticized the content and implementation of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF), we must accept it as necessary and...

Copenhagen: The Potential Success of a Failure
1995 Mayo Internacional
The recent summit on social development in Copenhagen, which took up the issues of poverty, unemployment and social disintegration in the world, was...

Geoculture: The Key to Understanding Haiti?
1995 Enero Haití
Haiti is a small, but extremely complex country. What is happening and will happen in the country's nearly 28,000 square miles could well be transcendental....

What Happened in the Economist's Meeting?
1993 Noviembre Nicaragua
As rector of the Central American University (UCA) and president of the Regional Coordinating Body of Socioeconomic Research (CRIES), thus responsible...

New Times, New Role for Universities of the South
1993 Julio Nicaragua
Given the challenges we are facing at the end of this century, defining the role of the university is difficult and perplexing. This is especially true...

Battle for the Budget
1992 Noviembre Nicaragua
With the battle to assign 6% of the national budget to the universities entering into an uneasy truce after one of the most significant and decisive...

Latin America in the "New World Order"*
1991 Agosto América Latina
A series of international meetings and seminars held in Latin America and elsewhere in 1990-1991 indicate a common evaluation of the nature of Latin...

The Dilemmas Confronting the Sandinista Revolution: Three years after the victory
1982 Julio Nicaragua
The following is an exclusive interview with Father Xabier Gorostiaga SJ on June 30, 1982, by the Central American Historical Institute. In this interview,...

Some Aspects Of Nicaragua’s Economy
1981 Octubre Nicaragua
I. To Satisfy Basic Needs.Our strategy differs from other models of economic development whose first priority is to establish a model of accumulation....

Additional Comments By Xavier Gorostiaga
1981 Octubre Nicaragua
There are many causes for the economic emergency in which we find ourselves. One of them is an external cause – the foreign exchange. We have imports...