War Is a Defeat for Humanity
2003 Marzo Internacional
1. The world is currently experiencing the most serious situation since the end of the Cold War. The reason is President Bush’s threat to attack Iraq,...
Several Key Questions
1999 Septiembre Internacional
Many different strategies have been developed in an attempt to resolve the foreign debt crisis since the problem first emerged in the early 1980s. From...
Panama: Eternally Condemned
1991 Abril Centroamérica
"Condemned to live under the Pentagon's umbrella," was General Omar Torrijos' comment as he signed the Canal Treaties at the OAS in Washington in 1977....
El Salvador: UN Mediation and Civil Negotiations
1991 Abril Centroamérica
Though El Salvador in 1990 offered an example of realistic and reasonable negotiation of an armed conflict, not everything in the negotiating process...
The United States: Redefining Central America and the World
1991 Abril Centroamérica
The United States in 1991 is facing what Secretary of State James Baker has called the "defining moment." What is up for definition is whether the Bush...
Central America’s Grassroots Movement: A Partial Alternative
1991 Abril Centroamérica
While there have been encouraging advances in demilitarization and political negotiations between the new governments and revolutionary vanguards in...
Nicaragua: Political Maturity and Economic Immaturity
1991 Abril Centroamérica
Nicaragua is the only Central American country in which demilitarization and the democratization of society have advanced very far. In 1990, both grassroots...
Guatemala: The Civilian Facade Collapses
1991 Abril Centroamérica
Guatemala witnessed three dynamic processes and one non-starter during 1990. The first dynamic process was the fight between the government and the...
The Popular Alternative: The Agenda and Challenge for the 90s
1991 Abril Centroamérica
In our countries, the fundamental economic subject for a popular alternative is an organized combination of peasants, artisans and small service sectors...
Demilitarization: The Other Face of Democratization
1991 Abril Centroamérica
Perhaps the most hopeful and promising long-term factor in Central America is the rapid development of the regional aspiration to democracy, in the concrete...
Introduction and Dedication
1991 Abril Centroamérica
As in past years, this special issue of envío is a collective product of the Jesuit Center for Research and Social Action in Central America and...
Honduras: A Grassroots Party Emerging from Grassroots Organization
1991 Abril Centroamérica
Honduras always stands out as the most backward country of Central America, perhaps with the exception of Panama. The new neoliberal economic plan has...
The Neoliberal Model in Central America: Gospel of the New Right
1991 Abril Centroamérica
The word "development" has disappeared from Latin America's economic vocabulary, replaced with terms like "structural adjustment," economic "reactivation"...
The Nation-State Crisis: Ungovernability
1991 Abril Centroamérica
The neoliberal model's main weakness in this region is that it is only a patch sewn over the causes of the crisis. Our central thesis in this analysis...