Democracy has returned to Argentina against a backdrop of profound changes in international and national life. To cite but a few: the intensification of power-bloc rivalry; revolutionary changes in the technology of information; the realignment of world views; high-tech militarization; …
Placing Central American struggles on the line of East-West conflict is not simply a compass error, to be corrected by a truer North-South heading. It is a basic mistake. It means to ignore the simultaneous ferment of three processes that have …
Over the past 30 years, Argentina has gone through four political phases in a downward spiral. Between Perón’s ouster in 1955 and 1966 it had an unstable and exclusionary democracy, interrupted by military coups. The Perónists were proscribed; elections were …
In places where life is reasonably ordered, the violence that rages in the Third World is masked by a propensity to integrate it in some favorite sequence of meaning. For those beholden to a vision of gradual progress, such violence …
At mid-term, the bellicose momentum of the Reagan administration’s policies toward Nicaragua, and toward Central America as a whole, has stalled. The reactionary impulse behind these policies (in the sense of an attempt to roll back change to the status …
Ten years ago, the military ruled Argentina. They had seized power by overthrowing an elected government in 1966—as they had done in 1962, in 1955, in 1943, in 1930; as they would do again in 1976. But, as on all …
